Why Is the Tragic Novel’s Heroine So Unhinged?

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|Scatterbrained, adorable, illiterate heroine x arrogant villain who talks himself into falling for her|

|Cow-patterned cat sword cultivator x beautiful fox spirit|

Synopsis:

Before transmigrating into a book, Zhu Lingxiao was the most renowned cultivator in the world of cultivation: the leader of the immortal sects and born with a sword bone.

Unfortunately, her education was so poor it would make book-burning tyrants weep. She failed her sect's written exams for eight years straight and outlasted twenty tutors.

One day, she was struck by lightning and transmigrated into a melodramatic novel, becoming the heroine destined to suffer through three thousand chapters of an angsty romance with a domineering CEO.

The System screamed in her ear:

[As the heroine of an angst novel, the male lead and various supporting characters will misunderstand and frame you, tormenting you both physically and emotionally. They'll take your kidneys, drain your blood, and smash your kneecaps one after another!]

[If you want to survive, you have to follow the plot and raise their affection for you!]

[Go, now! The male lead's white moonlight is about to study abroad. The male lead and his rivals are all in a private room seeing her off. Take advantage of them once they're drunk!]

Zhu Lingxiao, who had failed nine out of nine exams, only understood the last two words. Her eyes sharpened, and she nodded with determination.

So she pushed open the private room and robbed the drunk men blind, leaving them with nothing but their underwear.

The System let out a piercing scream: That's not what I meant by take advantage!

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It was only later that the System learned Zhu Lingxiao was illiterate. That was just business as usual for her.

System: You have to be a simp.

Zhu Lingxiao ignores the male lead's taunts and grabs a Samoyed, licking it three times.

System: You have to show him some warmth.

Zhu Lingxiao ignores the second male lead's mockery and pours a kettle of hot water over him.

System: You have to reform the villain.

Zhu Lingxiao spends all night brewing Bone-Melting Water, accidentally misreads the ingredients, and forms a pact with the villain, taking him as her spirit pet.

In the middle of the night, the villain sends her an eight-hundred-character essay, long-winded and heartfelt.

Zhu Lingxiao frowns: I can't read some of this. Transferring you to a human agent.

System: Aaaaaah! He's saying he likes you!

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Zhu Lingxiao realizes that sword cultivators and angst heroines have something in common: they're poor.

After a string of modern-day nightmares, from being poisoned by formaldehyde in a subdivided apartment to getting such bad diarrhea from trendy takeout that she became dehydrated, to renting a cheap haunted house to save money, she decides to take the System's advice and win over the richest villain in the original story.

She finds the handsome, nasty young master of the Lian family and boldly slips him a carefully prepared love letter.

His friends snatch it away at once and unfold it. Their eyes go dark as they read:

[Gud mornin, lil bro, u wanna date? Tomorrow is Cattle Day, I wud like 2 go shoppin wit u, me misi you vrey much, god night!]

Lian Qi only smiles coldly: Quite the move.

The male lead, the second male lead, and everyone else: ?

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[Reader's Guide]

1. The heroine only has room in her brain for swords. She's a top-tier athlete, and her identity as an ancient person makes her illiteracy even worse. But she works hard and attends literacy classes, so please give her a round of applause, okay? Okay.

2. This is a purely modern urban setting with no cultivation elements. The heroine has strong spiritual sight and can see ghosts and the original forms of demons, so the male lead always looks like a cute little fox to her.

3. [Chapter titles] are the heroine's diary entries, and [chapter summaries] are the diary itself. You can treat the entire chapter list as bonus content, haha.

4. It's completely unhinged. My dear readers, add it to your favorites so you don't lose track. Think you!

My next comedy novel: Only I Deserve to Be Her Dog

Synopsis:

As the young master of the Huo family, Huo Xingyan has always been arrogant and flamboyant. But on his eighteenth birthday, he suddenly has a prophetic dream.

It turns out he's a disposable male supporting character in a reverse harem novel with one heroine and multiple love interests. The protagonist is Wen Chao, the impoverished top student in his class.

According to the plot, he will make her life miserable and bully her in every way at first, only to be humiliated and get his revenge later. In the end, his family will be destroyed and he'll meet a tragic fate.

And that's not all. The protagonist will turn dark, force him into a possessive romance, and lock him in a cage for some kinky stuff. He'll have to work like an ox, washing clothes and cooking every day for her and her harem!

After waking from his dream, Huo Xingyan, who has a clear-eyed understanding of his own intelligence, digs out a photo of Wen Chao in the middle of the night and writes out his three-part revenge plan:

Step one: Comfort Wen Chao when she's feeling down.

Step two: Drive every man away from Wen Chao.

Step three: Do his best to become Wen Chao's kept man.

He sets down his pen, brimming with confidence.

If he can't be a successful man, he'll be a successful lover instead.

Rather than become someone's plaything against his will, he'd rather train himself to be one.

Who says a villain has to take revenge?

If you can't beat them, join them. Being a pretty boy toy sounds pretty good!

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Lately, Wen Chao thinks the Huo Xingyan who sits in front of her is acting strange.

He keeps sneakily stuffing things into her desk. When she takes them out, they're chocolates mixed with nuts that could make her go into anaphylactic shock.

He also keeps shoving umbrellas into her hands, then sends her a pitiful message at midnight saying he has a fever and blaming Wen Chao for leaving him out in the rain.

He has even started paying attention in class for the first time, pestering her to explain the lessons and saying in a gooey voice that Newton being hit by an apple expresses the author's nostalgia for home.

Wen Chao takes a deep breath: Got it. This is bullying.

She has no intention of getting entangled with the young master. After rejecting him for the hundred and eighth time to no avail, she takes a shortcut home, only to find the hooligans who have been harassing her cornered in an alley.

The usually obedient Huo Xingyan plants one foot on the man's head and sneers, "Heh. I'm the only one who deserves to be her dog."

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