Ruan Jiangnian

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Blurb:

Ruan Jiangnian is an ordinary working person with a conscience who obeys the law.

Though she has sharp eyes and a fierce scowl, makes sarcastic remarks, and loves to curse people out, she's a kind girl.

The kind girl's life is a mess. Her father cheated, her mother went mad and ran away, and she couldn't afford tuition, so she had to drop out.

Her unscrupulous uncle covets her shabby old house, and keeps harassing her with twisted arguments, shouting loudly enough for the whole neighborhood to hear.

She scavenges for scraps to get enough to eat, only to be shunned by the neighborhood grannies and uncles.

Her situation is exceptionally desperate.

Unfortunately for her enemies, Ruan Jiangnian was born with a chaotic streak and incredible strength.

They try to guilt-trip her, but she has no conscience to appeal to. They throw tantrums and play dirty, but she can curse them until they shut down. They try to intimidate her with force, but she can knock out a whole carload with one punch.

When she has no money for food, she scavenges.

She starts from the start with a single sack and reaches a comfortable life within six months.

She outtalks the nasty old ladies, kicks her unscrupulous relatives to the curb, and everything goes her way.

She scavenges and sells secondhand goods, rents a barren mountain to plant fruit trees, and makes her business blossom everywhere.

Ruan Jiangnian has never made a bad deal. She finds gold while scavenging, gets a fugitive's bounty for doing the right thing, and makes a fortune from even the smallest business venture.

She never imagined that one day she'd fall for a stiff, awkward boy. She helps him without expecting anything in return, and in a moment of impulse even says, "I'll scavenge to support you."

Ruan Jiangnian and Zhang Minghan's first proper meeting is a perfect, romantic rescue of a hapless goose.

Ruan Jiangnian, so handsome she takes your breath away, steps in to stop workplace bullying and makes sure the bad guy gets what he deserves, protecting the fragile heart of the hapless Zhang Minghan.

The step-by-step version: The bad guy insults Zhang Minghan, Ruan Jiangnian curses him out until he wants his mother, and the bad guy apologizes.

The boy is as timid as a rabbit and only knows how to hide behind her.

She helped him once without thinking, and he latched on. He'll stay latched on for the rest of his life.

Audacious and carefree heroine Ruan Jiangnian * Awkward hero Zhang Minghan

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Can one world hold the plots of a hundred novels?

Jiang Hua doesn't know, but it has nothing to do with her. After all, she's just a passerby.

Though she's a passerby who has to be mentioned in all one hundred novels before she can return to her original world.

Since the main plots of the novels don't follow the same course, she has to keep creating new character cards to smoothly insert herself into every storyline.

And so...

When the Mary Sue runs into a little trouble and needs help, it's Jiang Hua who lends the heroine a hand and carries the badly wounded second male lead home.

When the overpowered hero is mocked in public, Jiang Hua sets up a street performance to diversify the crowd, playing The Moon Reflected in the Second Spring.

When the foodie heroine opens her first restaurant, Jiang Hua is among the students complaining about the cafeteria food. At the time, she is trying to join the classic scene where Campus F4 dump food from their trays onto a cannon fodder character's head, while inventing a new dish in the cafeteria: jasmine flowers stir-fried with chili peppers.

Jiang Hua buys the first batch of sleeping herbs grown in a farming novel, which also helps reset her body clock after she's caught in a street-racing scene late at night.

To take part in multiple campus novel plots, Jiang Hua transfers from the science track to the arts track at the neighboring No. 2 High School, despite ranking first in her grade in science, and goes on to become the top arts student in the college entrance exam.

To get involved in the tangled entertainment industry plot, Jiang Hua writes a hit novel that sells countless adaptation rights.

To join a business-world plot that requires mountains of money, Jiang Hua tearfully invests her fixed-term pension savings in a market full of strange twists and turns.

Finally, one day, Jiang Hua gives up.

Instead of running around the whole world in a desperate bid to return to her original world, she decides to stay where she is.

But then she realizes that even if she stops trying to create character cards, she still ends up playing a major role in every new novel plot that appears.

In CEO romances, she's a crucial angel investor. In infrastructure stories, she's a patriotic entrepreneur who partners on construction projects. At school, she's the legendary top student teachers talk about. In entertainment industry stories, her novels are always getting adapted.

The supernatural male lead goes to her shop to buy cinnabar. Demons who cultivated human forms before the founding of the country go to work at her resort. Even the families of fake and real heiresses and reborn supporting actresses are related by marriage to the family of one of her ex-boyfriends...

She even finds herself involved in novels where readers pick their favorite male lead.

The protagonists all learn from the way she handles her suitors and decide they want all of them.

Jiang Hua: Thanks, but no thanks. It's all for the mission, and I only have one boyfriend at a time.

Talented heroine who's gentle underneath a mischievous streak and laid-back within the chaos.

P.S. The heroine will date many boyfriends, but she'll never cheat or date two people at once.

It's undecided whether she'll return to her original world or end up with one permanent love interest.

Theme: Face the storms of life with courage