Reborn as a Disposable Side Character Who Picked Up a Down-and-Out Villain

The grandmaster Tang Qing transmigrates into a book set in a world where the Age of Declining Dharma has ended, but spiritual energy has yet to return. She has the dubious honor of becoming a cannon-fodder villainess.

In the original plot, the cannon-fodder villainess does nothing but court disaster and get face-slapped by the heroine, before meeting a miserable end.

After learning her fate, Tang Qing decides to avoid every special plot point and do her best to be a lazy nobody.

She returns to her old profession and becomes a fortune-teller, complete with a poverty-stricken fate. She wishes she could split every coin she has into eight pieces.

One day, while working her stall, she accidentally brings home a beautiful, frail woman, who is disheveled, blood at the corner of her mouth, and coldly ethereal.

And then they only get poorer.

Just as Tang Qing starts wondering whether her own poverty-stricken fate is stronger, or the down-and-out woman is better at squandering money, she accidentally learns that the woman she shares her meals and home with is the story’s great villain.

She’s also the ultimate experience point for the heroine, rumored to have blood on her hands, slaughtered her entire family, and fought the heroine in a battle so cataclysmic it nearly destroyed their little world.

By then, the fallen villain’s injuries have almost completely healed.

To avoid being dragged into the plot as cannon fodder, Tang Qing decisively sends the spendthrift woman on her way, packs her things, and prepares to find somewhere quiet to keep lying low.

Then the villain blocks the doorway. "Where are you going?"

Tang Qing invents a friend out of thin air. "I’m going to visit a friend far away. Goodbye!"

The villain narrows her eyes, a dangerous smile playing at her lips. "Oh? Is that so?"

This time, Tang Qing and the villain have a cataclysmic battle of their own.

The kind that leaves the bed broken.

Forced to ravish the villain, Tang Qing cowers at the foot of the bed, trembling. What the hell? Aren’t you supposed to be a top with the aura of a villain? Why are you a bottom?!

The villain, who’s just seduced someone younger, smiles. "I’m good at fighting, but not this kind of fighting!"

Main couple: Poverty-stricken cannon fodder x down-and-out villain who brings good fortune to her wife (also known as: miserly cannon fodder who treasures money like her life x villain whose love-struck brain has gone off the rails)

Coming soon: Her Highness the Actress Is a Natural Flirt. Please add it to your reading list

Yin Tu first meets Shen Zhiyan at the Taoist temple she has been running for some time since transmigrating into a book.

Shen Zhiyan, a wildly popular actress, has come to take part in a countryside variety show near the temple.

That day, Shen Zhiyan wears a white shirt and suit pants, the top button fastened. Her look is as cool and chaste as her face.

At the time, Yin Tu has max-level supernatural powers, but hasn’t yet recovered from her rage at being ambushed in the apocalypse. She is deeply wary of everyone around her.

She’s practically forced into being a loner.

But Shen’s cool, chaste face catches Yin Tu’s eye.

She allows Shen to approach.

When those clear eyes look at her expectantly, she even awkwardly cooks a meal for Shen Zhiyan.

Then, as she keeps cooking, it turns into more than just cooking.

Shen Zhiyan has always thought she’d be alone for the rest of her life.

Then, while taking on a countryside variety show for a mission, she meets Yin Tu, a jaded, laid-back Taoist priest at the temple.

She’s like a lazy, alluring cat, her eyes full of charm, yet she coolly keeps her distance from everyone.

And yet that face makes everyone around her want to come closer.

Shen Zhiyan is no exception.

How annoying.

After eating the first meal Yin Tu cooks for her, Shen Zhiyan narrows her eyes. She wants to coax that little cat, who keeps everyone at arm’s length, into her arms.

Then she’ll squeeze and knead her to her heart’s content.

But she never expected that in the end, she’d be the one that little cat would turn over and over and have her fill of.

CP: A tsundere, all-powerful big shot who says one thing and means another & a famous actress who’s not what she seems and knows exactly how to comfort people

Reading Guide:

1. The bottom will top sometimes. As the saying goes, it’s only polite to return the favor.

2. There’s a System, and the story leans toward silly comedy.

3. Contains original worldbuilding. Set in a modern fictional world.

Theme: Work hard to get rich, starting with me.