How to Turn the Sweet-Romance Second Male Lead Dark

☆Transmigrate into a book · Younger male lead · Both leads are chaste · Each other's first love · Sweet romance☆

Yu Wenxi is obsessed with older-woman-younger-man romances.

She transmigrates into a popular coming-of-age school novel, where the leads' heartwarming, inspiring love story follows two top students from school uniforms to wedding gowns.

While everyone else is moved to tears by the leads' beautiful romance, Yu Wenxi is captivated by Shen Yaofeng, the second male lead, who's cool and aloof in public but soft and easily embarrassed underneath.

The lonely boy's only source of warmth is the female lead, the girl next door. He loves her deeply, but he's only the second male lead.

At the end of the main story, the leads have a grand wedding and triplets. The story even continues for over a hundred chapters of extras. Meanwhile, Shen Yaofeng, unable to win the girl he loves, is consumed by sadness and dies before the main story is even halfway over.

Yu Wenxi slams the table, furious!

Why treat Shen Yaofeng this way?

Why can't he win the female lead's love?

A nurturing older-woman-younger-man romance is the best kind!!

The original male lead is nice too, but their story is a little dull. It wasn't worth 5,377 Green River coins at all.

So Yu Wenxi decides to transform Shen Yaofeng, make him turn dark and fight back, overthrow the original plot, crush anyone who gets in his way, defeat the original male lead, and win the female lead's heart! (At the very least, she has to make those 5,377 Green River coins worth spending!!)

When the female lead catches a cold, Yu Wenxi immediately puts cold medicine and a comforting bowl of rice porridge into Shen Yaofeng's hands, then personally teaches him how to care for a sick person and steal credit from the male lead.

When the female lead wins an award, Yu Wenxi promptly gives Shen Yaofeng roses and a lovely little gift, then personally teaches him how to make someone happy and threaten the male lead.

On the female lead's birthday, Yu Wenxi promptly hands Shen Yaofeng a battered guitar and a pile of sparklers, then personally teaches him how to confess his feelings and fight the male lead.

Later, when she sees the successfully transformed, lovesick younger boy Shen Yaofeng cornering the female lead against a wall with red eyes, she smiles with satisfaction. At last, the story is developing just as she wanted.

She never expected that after she had successfully completed her mission and stepped aside, Shen Yaofeng, who should have been living happily ever after with the female lead, would come looking for her. His face is cold, his gaze fierce.

"Sister, where are you going? Don't you want Yaoyao anymore? I haven't finished the cold medicine you gave me. The roses you gave me haven't dried into preserved flowers yet. I still haven't learned the song you gave me. And now you're going to leave me behind? No, Sister. I can't let you go anymore."

Yu Wenxi is completely baffled. Something seems off. She's just an insignificant, plotless background character who sells baked buns for a living. She only wants to ship the couple, not get herself into trouble...

Reading guide:

An older-woman-younger-man romance, with a five-year age gap.

The relationship only becomes official after the male lead reaches adulthood.

A sweet heroine with a wild imagination and no worries, and a pure-hearted, restrained male lead who's a white lotus that turns black and then white again.

The characters aren't perfect. Even fictional characters need room to grow~

The original male and female leads aren't vilified. The original book is entirely made up, with no real-life inspiration, and the male lead has no romantic entanglement with the original female lead.

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Behold her grand revenge plan:

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4. Upcoming contemporary romance, "A Request to Take Care of a Violent, Spoiled Boy": A mysterious, aloof older sister and a bratty, clingy younger brother.

5. Upcoming fantasy romance, "Forbidden to Fall for the Same Face Again and Again": One female lead, multiple male leads. A new take on the body-double trope and a brothers' group romance.

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