[How did I accidentally update this... It seems the scheduled draft posted itself. I don't want to write this one anymore, so I'll probably replace it outright later. Sorry!]
Ji Qingyu, a textbook fragile college student of the modern age, survived a fracture, a sudden drop in her platelet count, and a high fever from the flu, only to be hit and killed by a car that suddenly swerved on the road.
To stay alive, she receives a mission from the Central Bureau: travel into various novel worlds, complete their plots, and accumulate energy points.
After reading the original story in each world, Ji Qingyu is astonished to discover that the role she's been assigned is the tragic heroine.
The kind who gets physically and emotionally tormented by the male lead, watches him and his one true love live happily together, then leaves in despair, only for him to spend two chapters chasing after her and begging her to come back.
Who wants to get tangled up in a tragic romance with a scumbag? She values her life and doesn't want to have her blood drained or her kidneys harvested.
Ji Qingyu turns her attention to the male lead's rumored one true love instead.
The Central Bureau only requires her to live out the original heroine's life and achieve a happy ending. It never said that happy ending couldn't be with a woman.
1. An ABO world: lively, cunning replacement heroine x refined, wicked aunt who is the dark one true love
“If I remove your gland, will he leave you alone?” In a villa that should have been empty, a woman as clear as moonlight and as alluring as a spider's web tenderly strokes Ji Qingyu's face. A wave of heat surges at her fingertips.
Looking at the woman's face, Ji Qingyu recognizes her as the one true love the male lead is madly in love with, the original whom she is replacing.
Ji Qingyu obediently hooks her arms around the woman's neck. “Then tell me, big sister, what should I do?”
Later, Yang Heyan wraps an arm around Ji Qingyu's waist, which is so sore she can barely stand straight, and gives it a gentle squeeze. With an unruffled expression, she tosses a check for 250 back to the male lead.
Ji Qingyu regrets it so much that her back aches, her waist hurts, and her fingers cramp. How did the “one true love” she tried so hard to seduce turn out to be so wicked inside?
--You went to such lengths to torment me, so I'll make the person you love fall for me
2. Modern urban setting: innocent, sunny, “straight” heroine x elegant leopard cat, black-swan “one true love”
Right in front of the male lead, who mistakes her for the person who saved his life and won't stop pestering her, Ji Qingyu leaves with a stranger she randomly points to, claiming she's her bestie.
As they spend time together, the two become genuine best friends. Every day, Yang Heyan shares the ten things besties have to do, takes her out to eat and have fun, and looks after her with the utmost care.
She personally cooks and delivers meals, and even feeds her herself, mouth to mouth. They even have to stick together when they bathe.
The male lead secretly approaches Yang Heyan. Not only does he fail to recognize her as his true savior, he points at her and tells Ji Qingyu that she's clearly up to something and seems very suspicious.
Yang Heyan: What's the problem? Don't “besties” all act like this?
Then she turns around and complains to Ji Qingyu. Furious, Ji Qingyu wears the “bestie” ring Yang Heyan gave her and goes to confront the male lead.
Only after Ji Qingyu realizes her own sexual orientation does she discover that her “bestie” really does have ulterior motives. By then, though, there's no escaping.
--The best hunters often appear in the form of prey
3. Cultivation setting: scheming crybaby heroine x aloof, fiery master who is the dark one true love
After the male lead bullies Ji Qingyu, Yang Heyan saves her by chance, and she becomes Yang Heyan's disciple.
Yang Heyan tells Ji Qingyu to chop wood. Ji Qingyu's hands hurt terribly, but she pretends to be tough. Yang Heyan catches her secretly crying.
Yang Heyan tells Ji Qingyu to cook. Choking on the smoke, Ji Qingyu still tells her master she's fine, with a conspicuous tear hanging from the corner of her eye.
Yang Heyan tells Ji Qingyu to resolve an aphrodisiac's effects. Ji Qingyu is just about to cry when she suddenly pauses. This one, she can do!
Later, as master and disciple grow ever closer and support each other, the male lead finally comes knocking just as their love is at its strongest.
Facing the male lead, Yang Heyan takes Ji Qingyu by the hand and says, “This is your master's wife.”
--After getting promoted several generations up the family tree, the male lead goes into cultivation deviation while I grin in the arms of his one true love
4. Western fantasy: tsundere young heiress heroine x yandere vampire maid who is the dark one true love
By day, Ji Qingyu is a haughty heiress, while Yang Heyan is a meek maid who obeys every order.
By night, Yang Heyan is the yandere queen of the dream world, and Ji Qingyu is the only servant beneath her skirts.
“Welcome to my world, Master.”
To be continued, or possibly revised
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In every little world, Ji Qingyu is busy falling in love with the scumbag male lead's “one true love.” Only as their relationship develops does she realize that this isn't a one true love at all. She's wicked to the core, with not a trace of anything else inside.
The dark one true love has her completely at her mercy, and Ji Qingyu doesn't even dare run away.
After completing all her missions, she opens her eyes in a hospital bed and sees the familiar senior student who has been keeping watch over her for months. Remembering all the times she was teased until her legs went weak, tears gather in her eyes.
Yang Heyan wraps an arm around her waist and presses against her back, the corners of her mouth lifting slightly. “My Qingyu, don't think you can run away this time, either.”
Free-spirited, sickly tragic-romance heroine x calculating black rose who's been plotting this for ages
Reader's guide:
The dark one true love in every world is the same person.
One-on-one, both virgins, happy ending, switch couple.
The male lead is a cannon-fodder character among cannon-fodder characters.
No system.
Theme: Love sincerely
I discovered the no man's land, my sister(乐)
Can you tell me about the author's trumpet? If you write more in the future, I will follow it and read it [Let me be healthy]
I'm so looking forward to the follow-up and it's well written.
Oops, let's open two books at the same time. Hahahaha. Big thumbs up.