"What? I transmigrated into a book? And I became a cannon-fodder character?"
System: [Yes, Host. Your role is to follow the original character arc and help the male lead make a successful comeback.]
Ling Yuzheng: ...
The good news: After dying unexpectedly in her original world, Ling Yuzheng transmigrated into a book. The bad news: She became a cannon-fodder villainess in a cultivation novel about a mighty protagonist, someone who had targeted the male lead and would eventually die horribly at the hands of the demon clan.
Follow the original character arc? Wasn't this System sending her to her death?!
With no other choice, Ling Yuzheng had to pretend one thing on the surface and do another behind the scenes.
In public, she followed the plot and picked on the male lead, a down-and-out, pitiful, yet vicious young man.
In secret, she took every chance she got to steal his cultivation opportunities.
This made the male lead, Duan Su, look at her with an increasingly strange expression. His dark eyes held a hint of something she couldn't quite read.
Ling Yuzheng was alarmed. Could he be planning to kill her?!
Then Duan Su fell under an illusion spell. Ling Yuzheng saw a faint flush on his face, sweat dampening the loose strands of hair on his forehead. He pressed his lips together and took her hand, guiding it to his body.
His face showed a hint of embarrassment. "Haven't you always wanted to touch me? Go ahead."
"What?!" Ling Yuzheng was stunned and tried to pull her hand away.
But Duan Su forcibly held it there, making her feel him up.
Later, when Duan Su used this incident to insist that she "take responsibility," she finally realized that he had been plotting this all along!
A gloomy, tsundere, overpowered male lead x a beautiful heroine with a heart of solid brick
The male lead has plenty of inner monologue and is emotionally tangled, so there will be quite a few chapters from his perspective. He is devoted, and his supposed confidantes are nothing of the sort.
Theme: Keep moving forward!
