The Male Lead Is a Fake System

[Coming to an end]

Jin Ling is the wicked supporting female character in a storybook. The System gives her only one task: seduce the female lead's man and raise the male lead's loathing score.

As luck would have it, the female lead is her cousin.

And the man she's supposed to seduce, her future cousin-in-law, is Li Wenchao, heir to the Prince of Changling.

The System promises that once Li Wenchao's loathing score reaches 100%, it will grant her one wish.

The problem is that Li Wenchao is naturally good-tempered, dull and proper, and as easy to push around as a soft persimmon.

Jin Ling hits him, insults him, and bullies his precious cousin right in front of him. She tries every dirty trick she can think of, and eventually even forces him into a secret, improper relationship with her.

Yet Li Wenchao merely indulges her with a smiling face, while the loathing score on the System's panel remains **0%.

Jin Ling: System, he's not even human, is he?

System: You do not currently have permission to view that information.

With Li Wenchao's wedding to her cousin fast approaching, Jin Ling really can't be bothered to waste any more effort on him. She doesn't want the wish anymore, either.

After stringing Li Wenchao along for so long, Jin Ling reflects on her mistakes. In this life, she'll never get involved with another man so dull and boring. She turns around and finds herself a lively, cheerful husband instead.

On the day of her betrothal, amid the bustling crowd, Li Wenchao stands before her and smiles as he says, "May you be happy together for a hundred years and have a child soon."

But when nobody is paying attention, he leans close to her ear, his voice vicious:

"When you're a widow, meet me at our old place."

In the blink of an eye, Li Wenchao is smiling warmly again. Jin Ling is so frightened she wonders if she imagined it.

Then, the next moment, the System suddenly comes back to life: Access unlocked.

Male lead Li Wenchao:

[Loathing score: 100000%]

[Corruption score: 100000%]

[Affection score: 25%]

So the loathing score never started at zero at all!!

Reaching 100% means she has to win Li Wenchao over and get the score down to 100%!!

Damn it, she'd done so many things to provoke him.

Jin Ling can't take it. She drops like a stone and faints.

At the same time, the System issues a new task: Survive at the hands of the smiling tiger male lead.

Later, Jin Ling reluctantly tries to please Li Wenchao, finally managing to keep this madman in check. His corruption score gradually drops to 40.

When she's about to finish the task, she walks into Li Wenchao's room with a smile, ready to cut ties with him once and for all.

Instead, she sees Li Wenchao standing in the shadows, smiling as he taps the System panel:

Ding!

New task: Stay by the male lead's side for the rest of your life.

Love him, cling to him, and keep him as the only one in your heart.

[Chaos-prone beagle girl x odorless, tasteless, deadly-poison smiling tiger]

Both leads are virgins (even the male mosquitoes who get anywhere near the female lead are virgins).

The blurb may be somewhat misleading. The actual setup is as described in the story.

Pre-release: [Ten Years After Being Taken by Force]

In the tenth year of being taken by force by Cang Heng, this righteous immortal revered by everyone in the cultivation world loses his memory. His memories now end at the age of twenty.

Everything happens so suddenly that Xie Qiufeng, imprisoned by Cang Heng in his cave abode, hasn't figured out what's going on before the elders of her sect throw her out in the middle of the night.

The elders want to get rid of Xie Qiufeng, a troublesome person, while Cang Heng doesn't remember her.

The reason is simple. Back then, Cang Heng wanted to become cultivation partners with Xie Qiufeng, an obscure young cultivator, which had already left everyone dumbfounded.

Unexpectedly, Xie Qiufeng refused, and Cang Heng promptly imprisoned her in his immortal residence.

From then on, Cang Heng, once a sect genius admired by countless people, spotless and flawless, fell from his pedestal. The incident left an indelible stain on his reputation.

Finally free of his control, Xie Qiufeng lets out a long sigh of relief:

I've never thought those old men looked so pleasing before.

With a blade of grass in her mouth and a sword on her back, she roams the martial world once again.

But Xie Qiufeng never expected the world to be so small.

She hasn't been roaming for more than a few days when she turns a corner on a demon-hunting journey and runs straight into Cang Heng.

When they meet again, they stare at each other.

Cang Heng gazes at her for a moment, then solemnly puts a hand on her shoulder, making Xie Qiufeng shudder.

"You have a twin soul-binding Gu on you..."

"Whoever did this is despicable. How dare they restrict someone's freedom?"

Watching Cang Heng's righteous indignation, Xie Qiufeng gives an awkward laugh.

No wonder he's the leader of the righteous path.

But could it be that Cang Heng, the leader of the righteous path, is actually the culprit?

Xie Qiufeng is at a loss over how to remove the Gu, so she coaxes him: "Immortal Lord, help me."

Cang Heng, righteously indignant: I'll definitely help you.

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From then on, the two set off in search of a way to remove the Gu.

Looking at Cang Heng's face, Xie Qiufeng keeps remembering the ten years she was imprisoned, and feels a chill run down her spine.

Uneasy, she starts picking her toes in front of Cang Heng and goes ten days or even half a month without bathing.

She also occasionally half-jokingly advises him:

A genius like you should cultivate the Heartless Dao.

Seeing how righteous Cang Heng looks, Xie Qiufeng relaxes.

The day they find a clue, Xie Qiufeng searches the entire secret realm but can't find the spiritual treasure needed to remove the Gu.

She turns around. Cang Heng stands behind her, smiling inscrutably:

"Looking for this?"

The next moment, the spiritual treasure in his hand crumbles to ash.

Male lead's perspective:

After losing his memory, Cang Heng feels as if there's an empty space in his heart.

Until he meets Xie Qiufeng.

Cang Heng follows behind Xie Qiufeng, watching people come and go around her, watching her run off without warning. She spends a few days with other people, then returns to him with a smiling face.

In one fleeting moment, he seems to understand why that "previous self" planted this inescapable Gu in Xie Qiufeng.

Later, he remembers everything.

Resentment grows in his heart.

Theme: A good attitude leads to a good life.