How Can a Drama Queen Save the Villainous Male Lead?

Song Qi is the darling of everyone around him. When he smiles, you want to offer him your whole heart.

But he's proud and aloof, and looks down on everyone.

Until one day, Song Qi learns that he's living inside a book, where he's nothing but a pretty sacrificial character. After offending the male lead, Jiang Xun, he is fated for a miserable old age.

"..." Song Qi's catlike eyes widen in disbelief. A sacrificial character? Who's a sacrificial character?!

And who is Jiang Xun? He's never even met him!!

When Song Qi finds Jiang Xun, a group of delinquent students has him surrounded. They order him around like a dog, tossing banknotes in his face. "Go buy us a bowl of sweet soup."

Song Qi furrows his brows and tentatively calls out, "Jiang Xun."

Jiang Xun sneers inwardly. Which dumb rich kid is it this time? He lazily raises his eyes and meets that face.

A pointed chin, a pair of pretty catlike eyes. He raises a hand to shield himself from the sun, and his fair, jade-like collarbones have flushed faintly red in the heat.

He stands in the sunlight, ignoring the smiles and flattery around him. Lowering his eyes, he says, "Jiang Xun, don't buy it for them."

-

Jiang Xun is a stray dog nobody wants. He grew up amid mud and curses, full of schemes, dreaming only of rising to the top and trampling everyone beneath his feet.

Those stupid rich kids like discussing one person even more than they like insulting and mocking him.

Song Qi.

He's the moonlight in everyone's heart, so good that even if someone slaps him, he'll first ask if their hand hurts.

Every time Jiang Xun hears about him, he thinks they're all crazy, bewitched by Song Qi.

Until one day.

The moon everyone adores comes to his side.

After hundreds of compromises, Jiang Xun carries Song Qi on his back. Song is so sleepy that his head bumps against Jiang Xun's back as he mumbles his complaint: "Jiang Xun... why are you so cold to me? I clearly, clearly treated you so well."

He sounds so aggrieved.

Jiang Xun lowers his eyes and softly repeats, "Treat me well? You lent me your eraser this morning instead of the class monitor?"

"You drank the hot water I poured for you instead of Wang Ming's?"

"Or you dragged me out to watch the sunrise, then asked me to carry you after we'd been hiking for just half an hour?"

There is no answer. Jiang Xun thinks the young master has finally been struck by guilt. When he looks back, he sees that Song Qi has closed his eyes and fallen asleep on his back.

"..." Jiang Xun sighs and keeps walking with Song Qi on his back.

A little while later, the drowsy Song Qi murmurs, "Then you don't want me? From now on, I'll..."

"I do." Jiang Xun carries him steadily and repeats, "I do."

-

Eighteen-year-old Jiang Xun stands at the brink of ruin, cursing everyone with venom and wishing the whole world would die with him.

But Song Qi calls his name.

"Some people live in mansions, some in valleys. Some shine like the sun, some are covered in rust."

Han Han's translation of Flipped

Please note:

1. Extreme seme- and uke-fans should proceed with caution. [Highlight]

2. Both body and soul are pure. [Super, super, super highlight] Aside from legitimate self-defense, the seme has no intimate physical contact with anyone.

3. The cover uses a template, not a commissioned or exclusive illustration.

4. Jinjin and Xiao Jiang are both eighteen from the start, and there is no underage romance.

5. The seme has pale lips, a handsome, vampire-like face, sharply defined features, and a cold, sinister aura. A sacrificial character praises his looks and makes lewd comments about him, then gets knocked away the next second. Judge for yourself. If it's not your thing, please avoid it.

A preview of my upcoming novel, The Gloomy Cutie Gets Hounded by a Lunatic. It's opening soon! A couple who are each other's emotional support: "I teach you sacrifice and responsibility, and you teach me how to be a person." Add it to your collection, you won't regret it ^^

Ahhhh, please, please add it to your collection! If you don't like it, you can always remove it later~

Blurb: A dark, gloomy cutie x a weirdo with an unusual way of thinking

Yin Ran is a monster who failed to complete his differentiation. In the apocalypse, he is trampled, treated unfairly, robbed, and cursed.

Yin Ran feels the swollen bruise on his arm and finally decides to die.

He crouches atop a pile of scrap, trying to dig out a little more food.

Mm. Can't find any. So annoying. Before I die, I should take someone down with me.

Just then, a brilliant golden light cleaves the sky in half. A magnificently dressed man walks this way, dressed all in black, with an ostentatious pink gemstone dangling from his left earlobe.

The light is so bright that Yin Ran can't open his eyes. What an idiot. Him, then. I'll drag him to hell with me... Hm?

What is this feeling?

Squinting against the glare, Yin Ran sees the idiot's emerald-green eyes brimming with joy. He plants several frantic kisses on Yin Ran's filthy face, leaving a wet mark. "Ah, look what I found!"

"..." Yin Ran pulls out a knife and stabs him.

The cheap blade shatters into pieces in midair. The idiot acts as if he doesn't even notice and instead hugs Yin Ran tightly, lifting him up and spinning him around twice. His voice quivers with excitement as he peppers him with kisses. "A cute little white dove!"

Yin Ran is filthy from head to toe and reeks of scrap. There's even a deformed, mutated gray wing hidden under his clothes. By any measure, he's nothing but shabby and dirty.

"...Idiot." This lunatic with a rotten brain actually dares to mock him.

Yin Ran's gaze is gloomy.

"Oh, you can talk, too." He pats Yin Ran's hair, his whole body shaking with excitement, though he still tries to pretend to be calm and reliable. "Little white dove, come with me."

Yin Ran: "Get lost."

"Yay!" You Zhuo's eyes light up. He slips a large, dazzling pink gemstone into Yin Ran's hand, then rolls all the way back to District AK1, where the Federation's royal family lives. "My little white dove is coming home with me~"

-

By this time, Yin Ran has become the youngest general in the Federal Empire. His top-tier combat prowess, handsome face, and pair of incomparable, beautiful, holy wings have inspired a wave of adoration among countless citizens of the Federal Empire.

While out on a mission atop a mountain surrounded by alien creatures, Yin Ran unexpectedly sees the Third Prince, You Zhuo, who has become much more composed around him. Holding a bandage, You Zhuo eagerly tells a story to the fearsome alien creatures.

"Ah," he begins.

"Do you know how cute Yin Ran of the Empire is? Ahhh, so cute, so cute, so cute! Baby, my baby, my adorable little white dove!"

"Uh. What's with that look?" You Zhuo pauses, then blows up half the mountain without blinking, burying over a dozen three-eyed octopus-like alien creatures. "Rolling your eyes, too? You really don't know how to appreciate things."

Smiling, You Zhuo turns to the other alien creatures, who are cowering and trembling. "Hehe. You have to remember, Yin Ran is the Empire's one and only white dove. So cute, the cutest, the most beautiful. You Zhuo's, You Zhuo's, mine, mine, mine!" Then the alien creatures are reduced to ash by You Zhuo's shrill, explosive praise.

Yin Ran: "..."

The Third Prince finally notices Yin Ran and coughs. He puts the rare energy stones from the alien creatures into Yin Ran's hand. "For you."

He manages to act composed for two seconds.

Then You Zhuo's face is right in front of Yin Ran's. Two drops of blood are still stuck beneath his emerald-green eyes. "Little white dove, why did you stab me when we first met?"

Yin Ran: "I wanted you to come to hell with me."

"Ah." You Zhuo is overjoyed. "Why didn't you want anyone else to come with you? You only wanted me. Do you like me?"

Yin Ran: ...

#How could there be a hopeless romantic like this in the apocalypse#

#Get lost#

#I didn't mean for you to hug me and roll away, you lunatic#

You Zhuo: Whoever called you a deformed monster? You're the Empire's one and only little white dove~ (wink)

You were born with wings. You deserve to fly free.

Theme: A heart turned toward the sunshine