The Passerby I Saved Turned Out to Be the Male Second Lead [Book Transmigration]

Advance Notice: My Flower-and-Bird Painting (Liaozhai), The Villain Went Mad After the Hairpin Broke. Please add them to your collection~

Blurb:

After transmigrating into a book, Han Suisui saved a handsome and gentle passerby, a young man. The longer they spent together, the more her heart fluttered.

Since he wasn't a character in the story and there were no emotional complications, it should be fine, right? After thinking it over and over, Han Suisui still couldn't hold back.

And the sweetness of being in love was just as she'd imagined. Every day was so happy she lost all track of time.

She realized something was wrong after the two of them had spent a passionate night together. She showered her boyfriend with praise: "You're just as wonderful as I'd thought. Your skin is as smooth as cream and as fair as jade. With skin like that, you'd fetch a pretty penny..."

As soon as the words left her mouth, she felt something was off. The System quipped, "Who compliments someone by saying their skin is worth a lot?"

Han Suisui shook her head. That wasn't it. Then she suddenly thought of something and leaned over to look at her boyfriend's lower back... but she didn't get to see. He pulled her back into his arms, smiling with his charming peach-blossom eyes as he asked, "What are you looking at?"

Han Suisui: "Do you have a peach blossom birthmark on your lower back?"

Her boyfriend nodded. "You saw it?"

Han Suisui: ...clutches her head in despair

The peach blossom birthmark on his lower back only belongs to the second male lead, but it's on my boyfriend, in exactly the same place. There's no mistaking it now...

My passerby boyfriend turns out to be the second male lead!!!

The original was an old-school Mary Sue novel, for heaven's sake! What do I do if I suddenly want to break up?

Also known as: My System Is a Chat Buddy, A Love Story in Another World, What Lies Behind an Old-School Novel

When Han Suisui first arrived in another world, her mind was a blank. She had no idea how to live, or why she should.

It was Jiang Suizhou who pulled her out of the mire, giving her the strength and hope to keep going. To her, Jiang Suizhou was like the autumn sun: neither harsh nor scorching, but always offering her light and warmth.

And to Jiang Suizhou, Han Suisui was the only fool who saw through his disguise from the very beginning, yet still thought him gentle. This fool made him truly understand what it meant to be a moth drawn to a flame, and to embrace it willingly.

A slow-to-grow heroine with a terminal case of procrastination vs. a gentle, scheming hero who knows how to manipulate people's hearts

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Advance Notice: My Flower-and-Bird Painting (Liaozhai)

Miss Ma Sulian was a renowned beauty far and wide, yet she remained unmarried until she was eighteen.

When her parents asked her about it, she said she would choose a husband through a literary competition.

Once the room was empty, a dazzlingly handsome man with exquisitely drawn features suddenly stepped down from the flower-and-bird painting hanging on the wall.

He walked to the table and sat down, taking the book from Miss Ma's hands and making her look at him.

His voice was clear, though the ends of his words were slightly husky, giving them an inexplicably seductive quality. "Why are you choosing a husband through a literary competition, Miss? Do you, too, love those impoverished scholars in the storybooks?"

Ma Sulian looked up at him and said, "Shuning, you must understand that many talented people come from prominent families. Even if they fall on hard times for a while, they can still rise to great heights on their talents. So scholars aren't necessarily poor, and choosing a husband through a literary competition isn't necessarily unreasonable. Give me back my book."

Shuning: "...No." Since he couldn't win an argument, he would just have to try another way.

At last, one day, he got his wish and held Miss Ma in his arms. Seeing the spring-like glow in her eyes and the blush at their corners, he couldn't help leaning in to kiss her neck, leaving a mark there that belonged to him alone.

"Miss... do you love me?"

"I do."

An elegant, cool-headed young lady from a distinguished family who loves poetry and books vs. a breathtakingly handsome, seductive male spirit

The heroine's perspective:

When Ma Sulian was young, a wandering Daoist came to her home and said he wanted to take her as his disciple. She wasn't particularly interested, until she saw the flower-and-bird painting.

Later, a little boy emerged from the painting. She chose several names for him, but he insisted on changing Shuning to Shuning. "'Shu' sounds like 'Su.' I want you to have peace and safety."

From then on, Ma Sulian followed her master's instructions and immersed herself in books.

As his literary energy accumulated, Shuning gradually grew from a little boy into a young man, becoming ever more breathtakingly beautiful.

Ma Sulian had only wanted to help him become an immortal, but she never expected him to develop other feelings first.

So she went along with it, granting his wish.

But what belonged to her ought to stay by her side for all eternity.

A story about a male spirit who tries every trick in the book, thinking he has successfully taken the lead, when in fact he was already in an unbeatable position from the start.

A story of mutual secret love and salvation: they each secretly love the other, and each saves someone.

Both the hero and heroine will become immortals in the end. The story has a Liaozhai-inspired setting and is perhaps a loosely connected collection of episodes.

The Villain Went Mad After the Hairpin Broke

Ning Qiao transmigrated into a xianxia novel as... a hairpin. On her first day in this world, she saved a young boy named Jiang Lianzhi.

From then on, the two depended on each other. They lived in narrow, gloomy alleys, waded through icy winter rivers, fought wild dogs for scraps, and struggled against death itself.

But after Jiang Lianzhi entered the immortal sect everyone dreamed of joining, he gradually stopped carrying her around and left her in his room instead. Trapped inside the hairpin, Ning Qiao could only spend day after day alone, letting time pass in vain.

The last time they met before Ning Qiao died, the two sat facing each other with nothing to say. A moment later, the clear chime of a bell sounded at the door. He listened intently, then said, "I'm leaving. Your birthday is the day after tomorrow. I'll come back then."

But until the night of her birthday was half over, even as she lay dying, Jiang Lianzhi never appeared.

A dark blue flame devoured her soul, and Ning Qiao finally turned her gaze away from the doorway. She lowered her eyes and suddenly recalled how the book described Jiang Lianzhi: cold and heartless, cruel and bloodthirsty, a villain who would eventually turn all of Dongzhou into a realm of dust and ruin.

So she'd been wrong all along.

When Ning Qiao woke up again, she sat at the prow of a black-canopied boat and drank all night. In the end, she threw the identical hairpin from her head into the sea.

On the day the hairpin broke, Jiang Lianzhi sensed something while standing beside the Ascension Platform. He gave up the chance to form an immortal bond that he had fought so hard to obtain and hurried back in full view of everyone, only to find the hairpin shattered across the floor.

That day, the leading disciple of the immortal sect, who had been a single step away from becoming an immortal, became a fallen immortal overnight.

Later, Jiang Lianzhi knelt on the ground, his voice trembling as he pleaded, "Ning Qiao, please, love me one more time."

A groveling redemption arc, but there's more to the story. Happy ending, no change of male lead.

One day, Ning Qiao will find her own path.

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