Cen Yi transmigrated into a no-romance novel where the heroine takes the world by storm.
She brushed nonexistent dust off her shoulder. "Being a powerful female lead? I can do that."
System: "You're not the female lead. You're a minor supporting character. Your mission is to cut off all the heroine's romantic prospects."
Cen Yi: "So I've got the kind of power fantasy plot where an extra rises to the top by being a human tool?"
The heroine has two persistent love interests.
One is engaged to her: Zhuang Suijin, a man as bright and noble as the moon, who silently protects her. In a romance novel, he's a standard-issue male lead.
The other is the heroine's little shadow: Xu Xuanzhen, a sickly, scheming green tea type who puts on a pitiful act to win her sympathy. In reality, he's the novel's biggest villain, a ruthless and violent Ghost King.
All Cen Yi has to do is cut off the heroine's love interests so she can shine on her own. Easy: break off the engagement and get rid of her little shadow.
To Zhuang Suijin: "Cousin, tell me, are a parents' wishes and a matchmaker's word really that important?"
Zhuang Suijin: "Nothing is more important to a filial child than honoring their parents."
To Xu Xuanzhen: "My older sister Shi is engaged to my cousin. You should give up on her now."
Xu Xuanzhen, who acts all delicate in front of Shi Wu: "Want me to knock your teeth out?"
After Cen Yi tirelessly tried to brainwash them both for a while:
Zhuang Suijin went to the heroine with the jade token of betrothal. "Awu, I'll marry you."
Cen Yi: Oh no, I didn't cut off that love interest.
She glanced at the even harder-to-get-rid-of, sickly love interest beside her and felt a headache coming on. A terrible headache.
If she couldn't cut off the love interests, she could make them bloom in a different direction.
She put on a bashful expression. "Lately, Elder Brother Xu keeps appearing in my dreams. I suppose what occupies the mind by day appears in dreams by night."
Xu Xuanzhen gave her a cold look. "Dreaming too much is an illness. It needs treatment."
Cen Yi gritted her teeth and steeled herself. "Actually, I... like you, Elder Brother Xu."
*
Xu Xuanzhen had been alive for only a short time, seventeen years, but ever since he could remember, he'd been dragged through mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
After dying, he was tormented by countless ghosts. Alone, he fought his way through the blood-dark night until he claimed the position of Ghost King.
How ridiculous. Someone actually liked a person like him, born in the mud.
Xu Xuanzhen drove her step by step into a corner, revealing his true ghostly form. "Do you still like me now?"
To his surprise, Cen Yi hugged him affectionately and tilted her head up, her eyes shining like stars. "No wonder I like you. You're so handsome even as a ghost. I like you even more now."
For the first time, Xu Xuanzhen, who had always been decisive and merciless, looked utterly flustered.
(This blurb was posted on 2023.9.4 and has been screenshotted and saved.)
Theme: Staying true to yourself
