Grinding Myself to the Bone in a Bad-End Script Game

Cool and detached, but a force to be reckoned with heroine vs. a sinister, patient, and calculating hero

System 468732 only wanted to lie flat. After finally earning its retirement reward, a bug sent it into a mission world, where it became Ye Xiling, a cannon-fodder supporting female character.

Though she was the legitimate daughter of the prime minister, she met a gruesome end.

The System wanted to go back, so it restarted the world in a last-ditch effort, but nearly disintegrated in the process.

The salted fish snapped: "Trying to make me compete?"

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She purged the court, strategized from behind the scenes, and plotted at every turn.

Then... she became everyone's darling~

Female lead: Let's be best friends.

Male lead: You're interesting.

Future prime minister: I actually like you.

Noble princess: I want to be your bestie.

Only Sixth Prince Wei Xuanyuan seemed to be completely at odds with her.

Every scheme she laid was easily seen through by him.

He watched her dart around with a sneer. The way he acted so familiar with her was nothing like meeting her for the first time!

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She set the characters' fates in motion, and in turn affected the world's trajectory.

But as that trajectory changed, she gradually realized that the original bug had not been a coincidence.

All the undercurrents churned beneath the waves. A storm was brewing.

This world was nothing like she had imagined.

Conspiracies lurked in the shadows, crises erupted everywhere, and danger lurked at every turn.

*

Wei Xuanyuan discovered that the world he lived in could restart,

and that everything was just like a storybook.

It repeated endlessly.

He lived and died again and again, empty and numb,

until he saw Ye Xiling,

a different, one-of-a-kind Ye Xiling!

He smiled at her and said, "Maybe this time, we can choose again."

[One-on-one, happy ending]

Here's a preview of my new work: Cannon-Fodder Office Drone, but a Heartthrob

The day Ye Youqing won an award, he transmigrated into a book.

He became a cannon-fodder tool character in a poorly concluded R-rated novel.

He harassed the protagonist shou, made a scene at every turn, and was stupid, nasty, and drowning in scandals.

Protagonist gong No. 1: "Find out who let him in. He's an eyesore."

Protagonist gong No. 2: "Keep pestering me and I'll have someone break your legs."

Protagonist gong No. 3: "Average looks, but he sure thinks highly of himself. Ugly people really do make a scene."

The barely functioning System told him he had to rack up popularity points to escape the plot's control.

Ye Youqing looked at his popularity score of -1000,

and smiled: ...

Could this get any more hellishly difficult?

Office drone Ye Youqing went back to his old line of work.

He followed the plot to earn people's hatred while working away to build up his popularity.

"You really don't like him anymore?"

Faced with his friend's skeptical look, Ye Youqing scoffed:

"That lovesick brain needs fixing. No one can stop me from working."

"Boyfriends are everywhere, but jobs aren't easy to find."

Ye Youqing's whole personality changed. He worked himself to the bone in the entertainment industry and became a star!

Looking at his skyrocketing popularity score,

he smiled: ...

At least this is in my area of expertise.

I'm a veteran wage slave. How could I not know how to work?

But as he grew more and more famous, the plot completely fell apart.

Later:

The protagonist shou tugged at his sleeve with red-rimmed eyes: "Do you still like me?"

Protagonist gong No. 1 said hoarsely: "Youqing, I was blind."

Protagonist gong No. 2 presented him with a top-tier contract: "Give me a chance. I want to take care of you."

Protagonist gong No. 3 reached out to pull him over: "I was an idiot to call Brother Youqing ugly!"

Theme: No matter how many disappointments you have faced, never give up hope.