A Guide to Portraying Popular Characters

[Updates at 11 p.m.] [This novel will be exclusively published starting December 23. Thank you all for your support!] [Next novel: Reincarnating as the Hidden Villainess of Doom Is a Complete Failure] Li Yue is an immensely popular up-and-coming manga artist who shot to fame with a single series, Shadow Frontline. But while she was out looking for inspiration one day, she unexpectedly transmigrated and got bound to a strange System. The System told her, “Because you’ve been leaving readers frustrated with your endless delays for years, you must take part in the story and gain popularity before it can reach its ending.” Forced to transmigrate into her own manga and take on the role of a villain she had only just created, Li Yue had no choice if she wanted to return to her normal life. * In the Shadow City, where the strong prey on the weak, a purple-haired girl suddenly appeared, dressed in a qipao and holding an oil-paper umbrella. The girl was the last surviving descendant of a Chinese clan that had been wiped out. Carrying her hatred and a trail of blood, she entered the fog. Beneath her innocent, adorable face lay madness and obsession. She gave everything for her family and her extreme sense of justice. [The Moonshadow Princess has it so rough, sob sob sob. I feel so protective of her!] [The sweet little bunny who’s secretly a villain is SO my type, help! And what did the princess even do wrong? She just wants to save this rotten world, sob sob sob!] [Is it just me, or are all the Moonshadow Princess ships amazing? Not just with the popular male characters, but with the heroine too. That scene between them in the latest chapter had me shipping them in one second!] Jiang Yueya, the Moonshadow Princess, had been growing more popular ever since her debut. Especially at the very end, when she sacrificed herself for the justice and ideals in her heart. Not only were the manga’s readers devastated, but the characters in the manga were left utterly heartbroken too. Her obsessive twin brother’s eyes reddened as he gazed at the world with boundless hatred. “Sis, are you abandoning me?” The charismatic cult leader laughed, crazed and infatuated. “Let every fool in this world be buried with you.” The male lead, already troubled, completely fell to darkness. “I’ll create a world where you’re with me.” Even the enemy military’s weaponized girl twisted her face in anger. “Jiang Yueya, don’t think you can get rid of me like this!” … … At last, after completing the mission to finish the story, Li Yue happily returned to the real world. But when she reopened the manga forum, she was utterly shocked. How had a perfectly good shonen manga suddenly turned into such an intense shipping war?! * 1. As you can tell, this is a reverse-harem novel. 2. A brain-off, shamelessly indulgent Mary Sue original light novel. * Next novel: Reincarnating as the Hidden Villainess of Doom Is a Complete Failure Blurb: Lu Yao was reincarnated into the dangerous world of a superpower novel where women ruled and men were inferior. In the book, she was born into the original story’s villainous family. This glamorous family had a secret no one knew about: behind the scenes, they were always busy manufacturing the forbidden object known as the Holy Grail. According to the original plot, the day the Holy Grail was successfully created, sludge swallowed everyone. The Lu Group collapsed overnight, and Lu Yao, its sole heiress, vanished without a trace. She murdered and plundered innocent souls, unleashed massive atrocities around the world, and offered everything to the Holy Grail atop countless corpses… When she was finally found a month later, she had already spent a long time lurking beside the male and female leads. Her true identity was finally exposed, and she met a bad ending. Recalling the plot, Lu Yao furrowed her brow. This time, she absolutely couldn’t follow the original story’s path to ruin. She had to strike first * The abominations all said that child was a god. The six-year-old girl held the Holy Grail aloft, making everything in the world bow at her feet. She shone with the dazzling radiance of a savior. When the Lu family’s senior executives discovered this turn of events, tears of joy streamed down their faces. They became her most devout followers. Everyone knew that the Lu family had a deeply cherished young heiress. But no one knew that the six-year-old had long since become the true power behind the Lu conglomerate. And that wasn’t all. The Daughter of God beneath the pure silver moon; The Mother of Abominations, above all creation; A dazzling star of miracles, a wish-granting machine of desire, holding aloft the Holy Grail. She stood above a million lives. * 1. This is a female-dominant world, and men can get pregnant. Please be aware. 2. The novel has intense competition between men for the heroine, including scheming, calculating, and fake-innocent types. 3. The heroine is the strongest, an overpowered show-off through and through. 4. As usual, a reverse-harem love polygon with both men and women vying for her. Theme: Strive to improve.