Rising to the Top as a Trusted Aide Through the Handsome-Man Scheme

(A lovesick, nurturing male lead)

Every nightfall, Duan Chiyi, the foremost disciple of the immortal sect, would take off his mask, change back into his demon-clan clothes, and knock on Li Luo's door right on time to tell her not to stay up late.

Whenever that happened, Li Luo, who had been tallying up "today's kill count," would put down her dagger, change into a dress, and take out her Plan to Assassinate the Immortal Sect's Foremost Disciple to discuss with him.

"Knocking him out and dragging him away would be too difficult. How about just chopping him up?"

"It's not difficult."

Duan Chiyi cleared his throat and said with feigned calm,

"He's easy to catch."

Years after she transmigrated into a book, the System finally appeared and told her she was in a melodramatic romance novel. Her role was the unlucky heroine, destined to be abused in body and mind, with her heart and lungs torn out.

The good news: She could go home after winning over the original male lead.

The bad news: The person who had destroyed her family was the original male lead, the Demon Lord.

Li Luo, who was just about to dig a hole to bury one of the Demon Lord's subordinates: "...Wow."

After Li Luo had the System wrapped around her finger, someone else told her:

The immortal sect's undercover agent and the pavilion master's trusted aide were both named Duan Chiyi.

Li Luo (looking puzzled): "You mean the immortal sect's foremost disciple in the book, who looks innocent and harmless but is actually a human weapon and will eventually kill me?"

She glanced at the deputy pavilion master, who was expressionlessly concentrating on making her a rabbit lantern, and said firmly,

"Impossible. It must be a coincidence!"

Everyone (frantically shaking their pavilion master): "Wake up, Pavilion Master! The Deputy Pavilion Master's favorite book is called The Art of Seduction: Hidden in Plain Sight!"

Li Luo: "...I'm not being fooled. Trust me, I have my own rhythm."

The cannon fodder Li Luo had killed: "Don't let her looks fool you! She really does have a rhythm!!!"

"So... you don't actually think I'm some naive, sweet little girl, do you?"

--- Pre-release: Please add Rewind to My Rival's Youth to your reading list ---

Lin Ran was cursing out the boss of a rival company with her best friend one moment, and the next she found herself transformed into an elementary schooler carrying a Pleasant Goat backpack. The boss of the rival company, Pei Jingyan, stood in front of her with a little backpack of his own.

Twenty-seven-year-old Pei Jingyan was calculating and ruthless, the person Lin Ran hated most in her life. Her chat logs cursing him out could circle the Earth three times.

But seven-year-old Pei Jingyan was dressed in rags and looked helpless. One small mistake could cost him his life.

Lin Ran's heart softened.

She saved seven-year-old Pei Jingyan.

And once she'd done it, she did it again and again.

Lin Ran returned to the past three times, saving Pei Jingyan at ages seven, seventeen, and twenty-one, completely rewriting her rival's fate.

Until twenty-seven-year-old Pei Jingyan stood before her and asked if she could save him one more time.

Exhausted Lin Ran (despairing): "What else do I have to save you from?"

Impeccably dressed Pei Jingyan (matter-of-factly): "My love life."

P.S. The male lead's unrequited love becomes mutual.

Theme: Love life.