After Becoming the Female Lead's White Moonlight Stand-In, I Called It Quits

Zhao Xishui transmigrated into a melodramatic novel, taking the place of a cannon-fodder character who shared her name. The god of transmigration even threw in a System for good measure.

Zhao Xishui: Oh, transmigration? Nice. So, am I rich now?

System: No. You transmigrated into the body of a struggling worker who graduated not long ago and works exhausting 996 hours. You're poor, but you do have a role: you're the female lead Zhu Xiqing's substitute girlfriend, standing in for her first love. You're also the person she's about to marry.

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System: First, you need to keep living as a cannon-fodder character and act like an upbeat, sunny little ray of sunshine. After all, the female lead likes positive, sunny types. You also love Zhu Xiqing to the point of madness, so in front of other people, you must act as if you love her deeply.

Zhao "Lazy Fish" Xishui: A 996 wage slave, poor and miserable, and a substitute who loves the female lead like crazy. These buffs are stacking up fast. Can I return this? I don't want to transmigrate anymore.

System: The current plot is that you've been married to the female lead for two years, but she's never touched you because her heart belongs to her first love. You're only a substitute. Now her first love has returned, and she's about to end things with you by slapping a check worth 66.66 million in your face.

Zhao Xishui's eyes lit up. "You said 66.66 million? Now you've got my attention. I'm not going back. I'd be a wage slave there anyway. How many lifetimes would it take her to earn 66.66 million? I might as well stay here and spend it."

Come on, slap it in my face! Hurry!

Before getting the check, Zhao Xishui has to follow every prompt the System gives her, including but not limited to: seducing the female lead, arranging chance encounters, sending flowers every day, writing love letters every day, and making heart-shaped breakfasts every day...

Zhao Xishui, a veteran gamer: Daily missions, huh? I know the drill. I'll do them! In her heart, she plans to run off as soon as she gets that 66.66 million, quit her job as a milk tea shop assistant, and be done with it. The original cannon-fodder character was a real workhorse. Who works twenty jobs in a day? What is this, trying to burn through your life early?

Everyone knows that the eldest daughter of the Zhu family is utterly indifferent to the woman she's marrying and has no feelings for her at all. Zhu Xiqing spends less than a month at home over the course of two years. In the Zhu family mansion lives a weak, pitiful, helpless little thing.

After the divorce, everyone feels sorry about what happened. Zhao Xishui alone takes her long-awaited 66.66 million and stops doing the missions the System assigns her. She quits her job and spends her days traveling and fishing.

One day, while fishing by the sea, Zhao Xishui notices someone standing on the shore. A thin woman gazes intently at the ocean. As a model citizen, Zhao Xishui is about to go over and politely ask if she's all right, but then she gets a closer look. Oh no, isn't that her ex-wife?

Hey, hey, hey! Just because your first love rejected you doesn't mean you should do something foolish!

That day, Zhu Xiqing had finally managed to regain control of her body and was preparing to end her life when she saw someone walking toward her through the rain, holding a little yellow umbrella. Zhu Xiqing called out hoarsely, "Xishui."

"You've come to take me home."

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