The Pretty Supporting Female in a Period Novel

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(My new book, "The Frail Beauty Is the Era Novel’s Beloved White Moonlight", is looking for readers. The blurb is at the very bottom. My author page also has completed novels like "I Became the Spoiled Younger Stepsister of the Era Novel’s Heroine".)

Blurb: [Innocent Puppy-Eyed Heartthrob x Sweetheart Who Flirts Without Realizing It]

After an accident throws the Meng family into sudden turmoil, Meng Yinyin is forced to move to the countryside.

A girl who had been doted on since childhood, she tries hard to adapt to the grueling farm work. But after a while, she looks at the blisters on her hands and her skin, now a shade darker, and finally accepts reality: she really can’t take this kind of hardship (╥﹏╥).

So she can only follow her parents’ final instructions: if she really can’t hold out, she should find a good man and marry him!

After a thorough search, Meng Yinyin quickly sets her sights on Lu Chen: both his parents are dead, he owns land and a house, and he’s strong, handsome, and good-looking. Apart from being a little cold, there’s nothing wrong with him. Most importantly, if she stays with him, she’ll have meat to eat!

After spending some time getting to know him, just when victory seems within reach, Meng Yinyin suddenly discovers that she is living in a book. Lu Chen is the book’s major villain, who falls in love with the heroine but cannot win her over, and later turns evil. After his transformation, he uses every means at his disposal to torment the heroine and make her suffer.

The good news: she isn’t the heroine. She’s just a supporting female character whose role is to make the heroine look capable and impressive.

The bad news: Lu Chen is right outside the door, bringing her the meat she’s been craving for ages.

When there is no answer from inside for a long time, the man falls silent for a moment, then asks cautiously, “Don’t feel like eating meat today? Then should I go catch you some fish in the river?”

Inside, Meng Yinyin bites her quilt and agonizes: should she open the door or not?!

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Lu Chen is the most popular male supporting character in "The Little Days of the 1970s". Handsome and capable, he never forgets how the heroine helped him when he was young. Unfortunately, she marries someone else, and Lu Chen ends up alone for the rest of his life.

Lin Xiuzhi, from the twenty-first century, transmigrates into the book as its heroine, who shares her name. Looking at her shabby in-laws’ home, the filthy, disheveled child, and her husband, who was injured on the job and now lies in bed, utterly dispirited, she decisively asks for a divorce and decides to run to Lu Chen, the male lead who is devoted to the heroine.

If she marries Lu Chen now, he’ll cherish her in every way, and she’ll become the wife of a billionaire, enjoying endless wealth and luxury!

Leaving behind her child, who is crying at the top of their lungs, and her husband, who is desperately trying to make her stay, she rushes to Lu Chen’s home.

But as soon as she arrives at the Lu family home, she sees Lu Chen holding a pretty young woman’s hand, asking anxiously, “Have you told your parents about our marriage?”

Lin Xiuzhi’s eyes widen. Wasn’t Lu Chen supposed to stay unmarried for life because of the heroine? What’s going on?

And isn’t he marrying the supporting character who, in the original, admired the male lead’s talent and tried her hardest to compete with the heroine at every turn?!

Meng Yinyin’s take: Who cares about being a foil? Isn’t it much better to be a sweet girl cherished in someone’s palm?

Blurb for "The Frail Beauty Is the Era Novel’s Beloved White Moonlight":

Only after she died did Bai Ruyi learn that she was the doomed supporting female character in an era novel, a tool meant to provide the heroine’s cousin with a job, a house, savings, and even a devoted admirer.

In her previous life, goaded on by her cousin, she ignored her poor health to take the factory hiring exam, stayed up all night writing, traveled thousands of miles to enter a competition, and poured her heart and soul into achieving impressive success. Her father was promoted thanks to her, her fiancé often borrowed money from her, and her cousin even offered to manage the household because Bai Ruyi was so busy with work.

She thought everything was taken care of. She had no idea her father thought she wasn’t considerate enough and was actually closer to her cousin than a father and daughter. Her fiancé thought she was too cold, too, and was secretly having an affair with her cousin.

When she learned the truth, exhaustion killed her on the spot. Everything she had won by spending her life’s energy was taken over by her cousin after her death.

Bai Ruyi: ...So what on earth did I work myself to the bone for in my previous life?

Reborn, Bai Ruyi decides to go completely off the rails and do absolutely nothing!

Her father’s promotion isn’t going well?

In one ear and out the other: “Oh.”

Her cousin doesn’t have a job?

She rolls her eyes: “What’s that got to do with me?”

Her fiancé wants to get back together?

“Get lost!”

After she stops working herself to the bone, Bai Ruyi finds that not only is she happier, but her health improves, and even her luck gets better.

Otherwise, why would Yan Ze, the most outstanding young man in the district and the dream husband of every young woman, propose to her?

The male lead:

Yan Ze is the most outstanding young man in the compound. He’s handsome, has a bright future, and comes from an excellent family. Yet he’s well into his twenties and still unmarried. People outside the family speculate that he has a hidden ailment, while his family is at their wits’ end. They finally give him an ultimatum: find someone, or they’ll arrange a match for him.

A few days later, he comes home holding Bai Ruyi’s hand in one hand and their marriage certificate in the other.

Everyone, including the Yan family, assumes he picked someone at random just to get married and satisfy his family.

But Yan Ze alone knows the truth.

He has been waiting for this day for years.

(He’s been secretly in love with her for years. The heroine is a delicate beauty, and the male lead is a cool, devoted romantic. Lots of doting!)

Theme: Hard work brings prosperity; strive through hardship