Original title: I Faked My Death and Got Exposed
A stand-in for someone’s moonlight must follow two rules of professional conduct.
1. Even if you have breathtaking beauty and extraordinary talent, you must not be too beautiful. You must also deliberately act stupid, becoming a backdrop that highlights the female lead’s goodness and sincerity.
2. Abandon the mission-taker’s upright values, accept whatever scraps you’re given, and grovel before the female lead gong while playing a scheming kept woman who’d do anything for money.
After Sheng Zhiying received her quick transmigration missions from the System, she smiled with sparkling eyes and accepted readily. “I’m not suffering at all. This is practically just playing myself.”
Later, Sheng Zhiying completed her System missions with ease.
And when she had finished playing out the stand-in plot, she willingly took herself out of the story. Her exits were always brutal, involving, among other things, car accidents, cancer, and heart attacks, all while she died passionately in the female lead gong’s arms.
System: What a ruthless woman.
But no one could have expected her to get so deeply into character.
Sheng Zhiying became an unforgettable demon in the hearts of the female lead gongs in every world. One after another, the female leads renounced love and desire because of her.
After she wrecked ten worlds in a row, the Main System’s data went haywire. It had no choice but to urgently summon Sheng Zhiying, whose missions had been going splendidly, back to her original world to save the female lead gong, who suffered from psychological issues.
Back in her original world, the moonlight stand-in was already dead and buried in the female lead gong’s heart. The latter now held a powerful position and was psychologically twisted, making her hard to approach.
With a terrible hand from the start, Sheng Zhiying, a reformed criminal who couldn’t reveal her identity and take shortcuts, had no choice but to work herself to the bone. She kicked her laziness, showed off her talents, made a fortune, and worked her way into the female lead gong’s circle.
The day her identity was exposed, the sweet, sincere female lead shou clutched Sheng Zhiying’s sleeve, eyes red. “Tell me, how am I not as good as her?”
Sheng Zhiying was about to say, “You’re broke.”
But then the door swung open. The accomplished, cool, and reserved protagonist gong leaned against the doorway, long hair falling to her waist. She looked over with half-lidded eyes, like she’d caught them in the act, and sneered. “You’re not as good in any way.”
World One: After the lazy, freeloader underachiever dies in the arms of the aloof top student, the high-IQ female top student, now successful, renounces love and desire.
World Two: After the lazy, gluttonous heiress dies in the arms of a rich young woman with bipolar disorder, the heiress, having reclaimed her family fortune, renounces love and desire.
World Three: After the useless, spiritually rootless immortal scion dies in the arms of the light of the righteous path, the righteous immortal venerable, now fallen to the demonic path, renounces love and desire.
World Four: The entertainment industry...
The remaining worlds are undecided.
Content notes:
1. This is a gong-focused story, and Sheng Zhiying is the gong. The “female lead gong” is the same person in every world, so don’t get the pairings mixed up. Two mature women, both strong.
The sweet, sincere shou is just a backdrop. The protagonist gong has always truly loved the female lead.
2. The sweet, sincere shou won’t necessarily fall for Sheng Zhiying in every world. Everything depends on the plot. The goal is to make it satisfying, and all the setups are just in service of that. Please don’t read the author’s personal values into it.
3. There’s some angst and a ton of twists. I like writing all kinds of redemption stories, but I can’t write pure sweetness.
4. Everyone has different kinks. Respect each other’s preferences, and let’s keep the comments section friendly and fun. Amen.
Theme: Turn over a new leaf and be a good person.