What Should I Do? I Really Fell in Love with the Second Male Lead

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[Gentle, insecure type x Fierce, masked type]

The entire city of A feels like a strange fictional world.

If Mo Siyu had to describe herself...

She would say she was a supporting NPC in a childhood-sweethearts, well-matched romance.

In ABO fiction, she was as ordinary a beta as they came.

There would have been no problem if she had realized this earlier.

The sad thing was that it took her eighteen years to figure it out.

She fussed over him, kept her phone close so she could reply the second he messaged, and did whatever he asked. She was a total doormat.

Xu Yu’s friends even mocked her behind her back, saying she’d read too many Cinderella stories. She didn’t have a magic glass slipper, just a cheap pair of white sneakers she’d ordered online.

“The prince and princess are meant to end up together.”

“Why don’t you try going for the second male lead?”

Their malicious teasing and sarcastic jabs, beneath the stuffy summer sky, crushed Mo Siyu’s secret love like a bubble bursting high in the air.

So, at eighteen, she defied her mother’s pleas for the first time and went away to university.

After escaping City A, Mo Siyu met Shen Lie, who was wild, just like his name suggested.

The first time they met, he asked for her contact information.

The second time, they were assigned to the same group project.

Later, all it took was an offhand complaint from her for him to brave the rain and bring an umbrella to her at the library.

“LOL, the second male lead actually showed up! You two are perfect together!”

A bunch of people lit up their social media like it was New Year’s, all waiting to laugh at Mo Siyu.

Only Mo Siyu couldn’t smile.

His unabashed favoritism, the security he gave her every moment, and his attentive, straightforward concern...

She lowered her eyes. Oh, what was she supposed to do? She really had fallen for the second male lead.

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“Xu Yu broke up with that person. You still have a chance...”

“Most college romances end in breakups! The person you spend your life with should be someone from back home, right?”

“He’s drunk and keeps calling your name.”

“Actually, Cinderella and the prince are the perfect match!”

It was the same group of people again, bombarding her with private messages after she announced her relationship.

[We were too young back then, and I hadn’t climbed high enough. I thought you were the best person in the whole world. But after I struggled out of the abyss, the real sun came into my life.

Mo Siyu]

Everyone says first love is wonderful, and that it’s best when a secret crush comes true.

But she’d say it outright: Not ending up with the person you first had a crush on can be a good thing.

A story about a secret crush without a perfect ending. Who says you have to end up with the first person who ever made your heart flutter?

P.S. The writing is amateurish, the logic is messy, and there’s melodrama.

My next book, Welcome to the Deadly Dating Sim, is looking for readers!

With the college entrance exam approaching, a student in the classroom nudges her deskmate, Qiao Wan feng, and asks, “Do you think our world is like a game?”

Qiao Wanfeng keeps her head down, working on her test paper, and says miserably, “A huge Earth Online survival game!”

The next day, her deskmate, who had promised to go hiking with her to relax, disappears.

When Qiao Wanfeng runs desperately to her deskmate’s home, she finds an apology note and a pair of glasses.

[Welcome to the Sweet Dating Sim!]

[First, complete affection quests to earn a golden finger as a reward!]

Qiao Wanfeng covers her mouth in shock, staring in disbelief at the item menu floating in midair:

A pink diary that reveals the male lead’s preferences and information.

A badge that lets a specific person hear your thoughts when you wear it.

System lipstick that can extend a short-lived male lead’s life through intimate kisses.

Choose a target, and you can switch bodies with a mysterious man.

So Qiao Wanfeng’s world really is a huge dating sim online.

There are four players. After death, they must compete for the one available spot. Whoever wins the dating-sim war and earns the male leads’ undying love gets to stay in this world.

A fortune beyond measure and stunning beauty.

And top-quality male leads straight out of Green River fiction, ready to create a dramatic love-triangle showdown for her.

For example, Male Lead Number One: the most famous guy on campus, a hormone-fueled athlete and tyrant of the basketball court. Every now and then he hikes up his shirt to wipe away sweat, showing off his honey-colored abs and making countless girls blush and swoon.

For example, Male Lead Number Two: a sickly, fastidious campus heartthrob. His slender fingers undo a button at his collar; he’s aloof and abstinent, and feels out of reach.

For example, Male Lead Number Three: an elite heir to a financial conglomerate, with pale skin, gold-rimmed glasses, and the air of a refined scoundrel.

Just looking at him makes you want to rip off his tie.

And Male Lead Number Four: an older, domineering CEO at the peak of his power. No matter how much you act up, he just gives you an indulgent smile, making you cry, “Older men are so hot!”

But Qiao Wanfeng can’t bring herself to smile.

Because the System warns her:

[There are currently three other players.]

[The solo route, “An Angel’s Salvation,” is now open.]

[The ordinary school beauty died after being bullied at school. No one dared stand up for her, except for those angelic hands that reached out...]

Qiao Wanfeng is the ordinary school beauty who is destined to die in the conquest route.

The players have to step over her corpse to win the cold-hearted male lead’s affection.

Theme: Time defeats everything.