I Dressed as a Man and Won the Black Lotus Emperor's Heart

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Blurb

Liu Xiangyu had lived as an ancient person for eighteen years. It wasn't until she fell into the water and woke up that she suddenly remembered she had transmigrated here.

The System showed up late and said she didn't belong in this time and space. If she wanted to stay alive, she had to do good deeds, which meant becoming a good official and helping the people.

Liu Xiangyu, universally disliked: What a load of crap.

Unconvinced, Liu Xiangyu decided to coast through life, but she was plagued by illness every day and kept coughing up blood.

To complete her mission, she had no choice but to beg her family to get her a low-ranking official post.

Taking along a sickly beauty she'd picked up on the road, the first thing Liu Xiangyu did after taking office was go to the Drum Tower of Grievances and accuse several officials in the capital, including her own superior and her biological father, before the imperial court. She shocked the entire court in one fell swoop.

After making a name for herself, Liu Xiangyu took Zhao Wuming along and threw her weight around under the title of imperial commissioner. The two traveled together, growing more and more in sync until they almost wanted to swear brotherhood on the spot.

After one night of drinking, Liu Xiangyu got drunk and accidentally kissed him by force. Once she sobered up, she decided to play dumb. They were both men, after all!

But somewhere along the way, Zhao Wuming started acting stranger and stranger. He kept the women around her at a distance and wouldn't let her get close to other men, either.

Rumor had it Liu Xiangyu was shameless and full of lies. They said she was cruel, selfish, and hideous.

The rumors were all false. Even her identity was fake.

But Zhao Wuming still fell in love with her.

Later, the rumors changed. They said Liu Xiangyu was a fox spirit who had bewitched the emperor.

A clear-eyed woman disguising herself as a man x a beautiful, tragic, secretly ruthless male lead

Content warnings: 1. First and only, happy ending. Both blurbs are excerpts from the main story, which focuses on the plot. The leads have their own side quests, and the romance develops a little slowly. The System appears infrequently.

2. Both leads have secret identities and pretend to be someone else. The heroine is slightly unhinged, rebellious, and vengeful. The hero loses all his intelligence when it comes to love, but only where the heroine is concerned. He doesn't become stupid; he just shows off like a peacock in front of her.

3. Multiple time-space transmigration plotlines.

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As a longtime fixture at the quick transmigration bureau, Song Zhouzhou was punished by being sent into a horror novel called Qingyan after failing to win over the male lead.

In the story, she was a wicked supporting character who tried every way to die, framed the heroine, and monopolized the male lead. In the end, the heroine's disciple, who was also the story's greatest villain, turned her into a human-skin lantern.

Following the principle of cherishing life and staying away from villains, Song Zhouzhou was horrified when the System coldly told her that her main mission was to win over the great villain, Shen Zhao.

She also had to bring the male and female leads together and follow the plot to achieve a happy ending for everyone... Ha! Is that any job for a rookie?!

The System reassured her, "Host, you have infinite lives. Even if you take a blade for someone, you'll still become the main characters' white moonlight! You'll definitely succeed this time!"

Got it. She was supposed to be a human shield. So the happy ending for everyone meant the supporting girl was the only one who got hurt?!

The compromise meant the System's ridiculous schemes just kept getting worse. "Choose and complete any one of the following: One, force a kiss on the male lead. Two, force a kiss on the villain. Three, force a kiss on both of them."

Song Zhouzhou: ???

You call that a proper mission? How could you even serve it up!

Everyone thought Shen Zhao was upright, generous, kind, and gentle.

But only Shen Zhao himself knew what a madman he was. When it came to a certain annoying young lady, he didn't even bother pretending.

Like his master, the young lady only had eyes for Pei Xichu. To her, everyone else was nothing.

He had wanted to kill Song Zhouzhou countless times.

But then one day, the young lady changed. She clutched the hairpin she'd chosen and wouldn't let go, chattering like a lark as she stayed by his side. She teased him repeatedly and even got bold enough to force a kiss on him.

Song Zhouzhou said she liked him.

Shen Zhao hated her even more than before. He hurled cruel insults at her, poisoned her, and threatened to send her alone into danger.

But Song Zhouzhou stubbornly said, "I'll protect you."

Even though he knew it was a lie, Shen Zhao still lost his head and protected her.

There was no snow on Mount Wanqing. The day Song Zhouzhou died was as sunny as ever.

The dungeon was full of bones as far as the eye could see, and endless seas of blood. Shen Zhao stubbornly refused to let go, holding Song Zhouzhou's corpse tightly as he tried to take her home.

Song Zhouzhou still owed him a poppy.

After coming back from the dead, Song Zhouzhou felt something was off. For one thing, her enormous System had malfunctioned and reset to factory settings.

So, without the System keeping an eye on her, Song Zhouzhou gradually let herself go, flirting with people in every dungeon until everyone watching cringed.

Then one night, the great villain pinned Song Zhouzhou against the wall. In the hazy moonlight, she couldn't make out his expression. His passionate, forceful kiss landed on the corner of her mouth, venting his frustration.

His beautiful, heterochromatic eyes were full of suppressed jealousy as Shen Zhao asked, "Am I not good-looking enough?"

She heard the progress bar go up.

Song Zhouzhou turned away and gasped, "You shameless scoundrel."

Shen Zhao held on to her wrist. "I learned from someone. Isn't having me enough for you, Sister Song?"

A working woman supporting character who only wants to complete her missions x a villain who is jealous and has talked himself into falling for her

The leads are not perfect characters. The male lead only likes the heroine. The blurb covers only part of the story, which has several dungeons. Happy ending.

Theme: Self-reliance and strength.