A Cannon Fodder Raises the Female Lead of a 1970s Abusive Romance

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Meng Zi transmigrated into an unfortunate background character in an angsty period novel. At that moment, a local hooligan was blocking her doorway, preparing to marry her.

She grabbed an axe and swung it at him. Terrified, he begged for mercy and admitted that he had deliberately spread the filthy rumors about the two of them around the village.

Everyone in the village said she was crazy, and they all took detours to avoid her. The only person who came over to talk to her was Song Chunhua, the heroine of the angsty novel.

In the book, not long after Song Chunhua married the male lead, he passed the university entrance exam, then took the vicious female supporting character to the city to live the good life, leaving Song Chunhua behind in the countryside to toil like an ox. He didn't give her a cent, and tricked her into raising his child. By the time she was thirty, the strain had turned her hair gray at the temples.

Meng Zi respected other people's fates and didn't want to get too involved with Song Chunhua.

But whenever people insulted Meng Zi, Song Chunhua was even angrier than she was.

When she learned Meng Zi had been cheated, Song Chunhua cursed the culprit and vowed to avenge her.

When the male lead extorted money from Meng Zi, Song Chunhua would rather break off her engagement than go along with him.

Meng Zi's icy heart stirred. Looking at this clear-eyed girl who had repeatedly stood up for her and broken free of the fate laid out for her in the book, Meng Zi felt compassion for the first time.

She stopped keeping her distance from Song Chunhua, and the two grew closer and closer.

When Song Chunhua wanted to earn money, Meng Zi helped her come up with a plan.

When Song Chunhua wanted to write, Meng Zi gave her ideas.

When Song Chunhua wanted to take the university entrance exam with her, Meng Zi helped her study.

Before she knew it, Meng Zi had grown used to helping Song Chunhua make her wishes come true.

Song Chunhua became more and more dependent on Meng Zi. She wanted to go everywhere with her and stay by her side all the time.

She also grew possessive, not wanting Meng Zi to look at anyone else, man or woman.

Thinking she was sick, but not daring to tell Meng Zi, she held back her feelings and moved out.

Meng Zi caught her and brought her back.

Meng Zi's fingertips inadvertently brushed her waist, making her whole body tremble and drawing an embarrassing sound from her lips.

She hurriedly hid under the covers, her heart pounding nonstop.

She seemed to have fallen for Meng Zi, not as a friend. She wanted to be Meng Zi's lover.

When she saw a strange woman chatting up Meng Zi, Song Chunhua could no longer hold back. "A-Zi, do you like women?"

Meng Zi's gaze lingered on her lips. "It depends on the person."

Her heart pounded like a drum. Summoning her courage, she met Meng Zi's gaze. "Then do you like me?"

"I do."

Song Chunhua regretted it before long. Meng Zi was too wild.

She never stopped until she had bullied Song Chunhua to tears.

Blurb for After Marking the Restricted-Fiction Succubus Villain:

Su Mo was an unassuming Beta whom nobody took seriously. She climbed over the blood of her siblings and became head of the Su family, one of Haicheng's four great families.

On a business trip one day, a woman with dazed eyes dragged her into a room, begging Su Mo to mark her.

Driven by the benefits on offer, Su Mo didn't investigate how the woman had discovered the secret of her second differentiation into a top-tier Alpha. She went along with it and marked the woman, and a strange memory appeared in her mind.

From that memory, she learned that she was living inside a restricted-fiction novel. A month later, she would die in an accident. The power of the Su family and all her private assets would eventually fall into the hands of the Su family's true daughter, who had been switched at birth: her younger sister, the novel's heroine.

The woman she had marked was Lin Shutong, a newly crowned Best Actress. According to the novel's plot, Lin Shutong would yearn for the heroine without winning her over, then eventually turn that love into hatred. She would become the greatest obstacle in the male and female leads' relationship, a bona fide villain.

The Su family didn't yet know the heroine existed. Su Mo was confident she could rewrite the novel's plot.

Su Mo wanted the support of Lin Shutong's powerful family and wanted to nip in the bud any chance of Lin Shutong joining the heroine's side, so she directly handed Lin Shutong a one-sided contract.

As a succubus descendant, Lin Shutong had a mixed, unstable bloodline. Only the pheromones of a top-tier Alpha could purify her bloodline, give her a healthy body, and break her fate of dying before thirty.

After they reached an agreement, it was only natural that the two began living together.

In public during the day, Lin Shutong wouldn't spare her a single extra glance.

But at night, Lin Shutong would take the heart-shaped tail of a succubus and place it in Su Mo's palm. If Su Mo ignored her, she would use her tail to lift Su Mo's shirt and pant legs, clinging to her and asking her to cook.

Su Mo thought she had everything under control, but the true daughter managed to break free of the trap she had laid and went to the Su family of her own accord.

After narrowly escaping death and heading home, Su Mo saw Lin Shutong chatting happily with the heroine from far away.

Anger surged through her. Smiling, she lifted her wrist and pressed hard on the succubus pact mark there, which shared sensations with Lin Shutong's body. Lin Shutong immediately looked up, left the heroine without a word, and hurried over to her.

A few days later, nestled in Su Mo's arms, Lin Shutong softly asked, "Is there any chance you and her could make peace?"

"She covets what's mine. She has to pay the price."

Little scene

At the awards ceremony, Lin Shutong was giving her acceptance speech onstage when a hand suddenly gave her waist a firm pinch. Embarrassed and annoyed, she looked up and glared at Su Mo in the audience.

#ChasteBestActressMakesBoldLoveConfession #BestActressLinSeemsUnsatisfied #TheLinAndSuFamiliesMaySoonBecomeIn-Laws #... One hashtag after another shot to the top of the trending list.

Looking at one ridiculous trending topic after another, Lin Shutong was so angry that she transformed back into her true form. "I want to break our pact."

Su Mo's eyes darkened. Her slender fingertips gently stroked Lin Shutong's tailbone as she replied with certainty, "You can't bear to."

Theme: Any relationship that holds back your growth is one you should have the courage to leave behind.