The Fix-the-Bad-Ending Project

Fu Ruoyao is about to transmigrate into a poorly concluded fluffy romance novel, where her mission is to fix the happy ending.

She opens the novel. The synopsis has only three words: domineering CEO, unattainable first love, substitute.

Easy. It's a groveling romance.

Fu Ruoyao smiles smugly. These tropes are a piece of cake.

System: "Host, you are about to be assigned the role of the substitute female side character."

A substitute? Even easier. She won't get involved in the story between the domineering CEO male lead and his beloved female lead.

Fu Ruoyao: "But how did such a classic trope end up with such a bad ending?"

System: "Because this is a double-substitute, double-groveling setup."

"The stubborn CEO loves the scheming first love, the scheming first love loves the naive male side character, and the naive male side character is utterly devoted to the female side character, who seems to be a substitute but is actually a player."

"By the way, every man in the book is one of the female side character's fish. That means you, Host."

Fu Ruoyao: ...

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Only after the mission begins does Fu Ruoyao realize that everyone is hopelessly lovestruck. The romance plot gets more and more tangled the more she tries to fix it, so she has no choice but to bundle the whole cast into a dating reality show.

She joins the show in public, but controls things behind the scenes, secretly working with the show's planners to ensure the dating-show project delivers a happy ending.

At first, the domineering CEO is very unhappy with Fu Ruoyao. "Even if you dress up like her, I won't give you a second glance."

Fu Ruoyao: Oh.

Later, the CEO manages to show up on every date between Fu Ruoyao and the male side character. "Ruoyao, please look at me, even if she dresses up like you, I won't ever change my heart."

Fu Ruoyao: ...

Reader's Guide:

1. A lighthearted, sweet story with a battlefield of rival men. There is no rivalry between the female lead and the original female lead.

2. A brainless, fictional setting, with the dating show taking up most of the story.

Theme: You have to love yourself before you can love others