To make the male lead fall for her, Mingzhu is always putting on an act around him, pretending to be his ideal type. But she's only a supporting character in the story of the male and female leads. No matter how hard she tries, even if they get together, the male lead will eventually abandon her.
Once she learns how her story ends, a kindhearted System gives her a rebellious streak. So, if that's how it is, fine. She'll come clean and stop pretending.
1. Mingzhu in a period novel: When she goes on a blind date with a handsome soldier, Mingzhu plays the gentle and considerate type, hoping to marry him.
After their wedding, Mingzhu winds up back in her husband's hometown, fighting with his aunts and cousins like a shrew, working herself to the bone to care for his entire family. Meanwhile, the male lead is injured on a mission and loses his memory. The female lead saves him, and they fall in love at first sight. He wants to divorce her, his unreasonable shrew of a wife!
This time, Mingzhu doesn't pretend. She's coming clean: she's a firecracker through and through. Whatever the male lead says, she snaps back and gives him grief!
She thought that would scare him off, but when he sees Mingzhu clap back at Aunt Li, who's been gossiping at the village entrance about how she'll never find a husband, saying, "Aunt Li, are you from Dunhuang? How come you've got so many murals?" Aunt Li can't even tell she's been insulted, and the male lead only falls for Mingzhu harder.
The male lead thinks: Guys, who can relate? I thought I was just doing my family's bidding by going on this blind date, but then I ran into my true love. She's cultured and feisty, and she's exactly my type!
Mingzhu looks at the male lead forcing his way into her life. Fine, you two-timing jerk! Just you wait. I'll make you pay!
2. Mingzhu in a school romance: Mingzhu thought she and the campus heartthrob fell in love at first sight. Then she dreams that one of his friends deliberately lures her outside a private room with a phone call. There, she sees her boyfriend, who claims to love her more than anything, carefully holding his ex-girlfriend, just back from abroad, and gazing tenderly at the sleeping girl in his arms.
As he prepares to leave with the woman in his arms, his friend, drunk, asks, "What about Mingzhu?"
He turns away in disgust. "She was just something to do when I was bored."
So much for being just something to do when he was bored. When Song Yue wakes up, she finds the campus heartthrob waiting with breakfast beneath the girls' dormitory. She slaps him. "You jerk. We're breaking up!"
Other worlds to come:
Mingzhu as a prince's secondary consort in an ancient setting:
Mingzhu on a dating reality show:
Mingzhu in a substitute romance:
Mingzhu in an esports novel:
Mingzhu in a post-apocalyptic zombie novel:
Theme: Be yourself and do whatever makes you happy. Don't let other people's opinions hold you back.
