The Hero I'm Pursuing Is a Villain

[Completed on December 14. Thanks for your support!]

Ling Ling is terrible at games but loves playing them. After transmigrating into a game, she's still in shock when she tries to reassure herself:

Don't panic, don't panic. At least I enabled cheats.

In a fluster, she opens her character screen:

Character Trait 1: Extraordinary Charm

Ling Ling nods. As a beauty, she deserves this.

Character Trait 2: Boundless Energy

...She doesn't really understand it, but it seems like it might be pretty good?

Ling Ling looks eagerly at Character Trait 3: Locked

Ling Ling: "..."

So what now?

In this difficult, open-world martial arts game, is she supposed to rely on her face to make her way through the jianghu?

*

During her newbie protection period, Ling Ling meets an NPC.

He's highly skilled in martial arts, exceptionally handsome, and cool in manner. In every way, he seems like a great hero.

Looking at her useless but glittering traits, she starts making him grand promises: "I'll be famous throughout the land one day, so let me follow you! By the way, what's your name?"

The young man puts up with her pestering him all the way. At last, he says expressionlessly, "Lin Hansheng."

Ling Ling transmigrated into the game not long after starting it, so she doesn't know that Lin Hansheng is the villain who will make countless players miserable in the late game.

*

Later, after Ling Ling really does become famous throughout the land, she looks back on how she made it and realizes the biggest cheat she had was meeting Lin Hansheng.

An upbeat, bubbly newbie x a cold-faced, pure-hearted hero

*

At heart, this is a goofy little sweet romance.

Not a power-leveling story about an invincible heroine.

The heroine grows over time, and isn't weak.

She has a golden finger.

A single-player martial arts game.

You don't need to know anything about games to enjoy it.

The Cauldron's Self-Cultivation

Blurb:

Yu Youyang has a special constitution and was pampered as she grew up. Before her father went into seclusion, he found a cauldron for her to draw energy from.

That night, Yu Youyang dreams that the world she lives in is a book, and her powerful father is nothing more than the male lead's opportunity to ascend.

The first thing she does after waking is insist that the cauldron be sent away.

But her father, who has always doted on her, refuses.

"Yangyang, it's not that I don't agree, but you can only survive by drawing energy from him."

Yu Youyang has no choice but to return to her room. As soon as she opens the door, she sees Yan Chi's pale, weakened face, drained from being used as a cauldron too often.

"Young Lady," he says, forcing a smile. "Have I done something wrong? Are you dissatisfied with me?"

Seeing that his face is just like the male lead's in her dream, Yu Youyang resolves to make him leave of his own accord.

She tries everything she can think of. Even as he kneels on the floor to put her shoes on, she makes sure to mock him:

"You're nothing but a dog I keep."

Yan Chi chuckles softly, gripping her slender ankle. He raises his head, his gaze burning. "Then will Young Lady keep only me?"

Yu Youyang: "?"

*

Almost everyone in the cultivation world knows Yu Youyang keeps a cauldron. He's exceptionally talented and his cultivation advances by leaps and bounds.

Someone makes a snide remark: "No matter how capable he is, he's still just a lowly cauldron."

As it happens, the person in question hears them.

Rumor says this cauldron is cold-blooded and ruthless, leaving everyone on edge.

But Yan Chi calmly says, "It's my honor to be Young Lady's cauldron."

Everyone: "..."

*

Yu Youyang's fiance comes to see her and knocks for ages, but no one answers.

He's puzzled. Didn't she ask him to come at this time?

Inside the room, Yan Chi wraps his arms around Yu Youyang from behind. His warm lips move from her neck to her ear, and his voice is a little hoarse.

"Shh, Young Lady. You wouldn't want him to hear us, would you?"

*

A slightly yandere heroine x a not-quite-right male lead

Message: Love life.