After Binding Myself to a Bootleg Childhood Friend Conquest System

When Jiang Ling woke from a dream, she learned she was the childhood sweetheart playing the male lead's moonlight in a novel about winning back an ex. She was also the kind of character who could die at any moment.

The good news: upon awakening, she got a conquest System as a bonus. The bad news: the System was constantly glitching and only allowed one-way communication, making her struggle to stay alive a long one.

After narrowly avoiding several crises, she accepted her fate.

To live to a ripe old age, Jiang Ling decided to follow the System's instructions and bask in the halo of her childhood friend, now the male lead.

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As she kept doing the tasks, they began to get strange. Wait, weren't these the female lead's tasks? And wasn't the male lead acting like he couldn't do without her? It had to be her imagination! After all, the male lead had already turned her down once.

Knowing that once the male lead realized his true feelings, she, his childhood sweetheart, would be nothing but a reflection of the moon in the water, a youthful case of mistaken feelings, she embarked on a doomed romance with her childhood friend without a care in the world.

All she had to do was wait for the male lead to come to his senses and break up with her.

One day, a hundred days, a year...

#Has the male lead asked to break up today?

Male lead: ...Break up? No way. I'll never break up with you, not in this lifetime. A doomed romance? You're leaving me? (Smile vanishes, expression gradually goes insane.jpg)

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Gu Siyan couldn't understand why he had turned down Jiang Ling's confession, or how he'd endured years apart from her.

Impossible.

It shouldn't be!!

Thankfully, everything was finally back on track.

His moon had entered the lake of his heart, which he had walled off, and would never be able to leave.

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Top-tier star Gu Siyan joins the reality show The One in My Memories.

As the "only" friend in his memories, Jiang Ling follows the System's survival handbook, taking advantage of her childhood friend's halo to stay alive as usual. Her childhood friend, meanwhile, is always more than happy to take the opportunity to claim her for himself.

After the show airs:

[You call them friends, but I read them as a couple. If they're not dating, I'll eat my keyboard!]

[Childhood sweethearts! Made for each other! No one is breaking up the CP I ship!]

[Click to see how hopelessly smitten this top-tier star is!]

[From school uniforms to wedding gowns to silver hair~ May they be happy together forever.]

An extremely possessive, yandere top-tier star and childhood friend x a laid-back, gentle survival-minded manga artist and childhood sweetheart

#Just romance, nothing grand or complicated.

#The male lead never likes the female lead chosen by the world. He only ever loves his childhood sweetheart.

#There is a nasty female supporting character. Drop the story if you dislike her. Don't send personal attacks.

--The next novel is another sweet romance, Manga Supporting Actress Takes Center Stage in a Love Triangle. Please add it to your favorites. Here's the blurb:

After her family goes bankrupt, Jian Zhixin returns to China in disgrace.

The day she arrives, a severe storm hits.

The good news: the plane lands safely, and no one on board is hurt.

The even better news: she gets a System that knows the plot.

System:

"You're in a manga world! It's a marriage-first, love-later romance series, guaranteed sweet!"

"The female and male leads are pushed into a flash marriage by their families, and can't stand each other at first!"

"For some reason, after learning that the male lead's moonlight has returned from abroad, the female lead does everything she can to get them together!"

"As she tries to set them up, the leads grow closer. They realize their feelings for each other, and it's a happy ending!"

Jian Zhixin: "Is the male lead's family rich?"

System: "Obviously! They have massive assets! They could buy a small country!"

Jian Zhixin: "Fine! I can accept that. But don't even think about making me set him up with someone else!"

System: "..."

Amid the System's baffling silence, Jian Zhixin calls her parents to ask for details about the male lead she's supposed to be paired with.

Her parents promptly yell at her, saying if there were a sucker like that, they would have tied him up and dragged him in to save the company already!

Jian Zhixin hangs up and angrily complains to the System.

System: "Could it be that you're not the female lead?"

Jian Zhixin: "...Then who am I?"

System:

"The male lead's moonlight."

"In the first half of the story, the female lead sets you up with the male lead, and you serve as a tool to bring them closer. In the second half, you marry the wrong man and, whenever you're heartbroken, run to the male lead to cry, adding more twists to the leads' romance."

"In short, you're affectionately known as..."

System: "The tool-woman supporting character."

Jian Zhixin: "What a joke!"

Let someone else be the joke. She certainly won't!

Jian Zhixin learns from the System that the male supporting character is the male lead's older brother, and he's just like her. In the first half of the story, he's the female lead's moonlight. In the second half, it's revealed he's loved her for years, but they tragically missed their chance.

She calls him:

"Hey, I know a secret about your little brother and his wife. Your little brother likes me, and your sister-in-law likes you."

"To keep your household from turning into a tragedy, why don't we settle for each other?"

Think about it:

The younger brother sees his sister-in-law as his moonlight!

The older brother secretly covets his sister-in-law!

Isn't that much more exciting than the original plot?

System: "??"

So the female lead sets up the male lead and the female supporting character because she wants the male supporting character, then ends up with the male lead, while the male supporting character hides his heartbreak and protects the female lead for the rest of her life.

Is the female supporting character supposed to lose everything?

No way. Everyone can play!

Let the love triangle chaos begin!

System: "Beep--" System crashing after a breakdown.

Theme: True love can break through the rules.