Can a Country Girl Become Everyone's Favorite?

[The heroine isn’t really stupid. My next novel will be Pure-Hearted Widow Gets Spicy] [My author page is full of heartthrob novels. Please add them to your collection, mwah] * Lin Manxing first met Yu Jinghuan on an afternoon when the sun was so bright she could barely keep her eyes open. Yu Jinghuan was a rich young man whose family had sent him to the reality show Metamorphosis to toughen him up. Violent and capricious, he was someone even the production crew didn’t dare provoke. Back then, Lin Manxing never imagined that three months later, she would leave the small village where she had spent the last eighteen years with Yu Jinghuan. * Three years after Lin Manxing arrived in the capital, Yu Jinghuan went missing. Lin Manxing became the jinx everyone blamed for Yu Jinghuan’s disappearance, and his friends and family all turned on her. But as time went on, the way they looked at Lin Manxing seemed to grow stranger and stranger. Then, on the day Yu Jinghuan was pronounced dead, only to come back to life, Lin Manxing unexpectedly received invitations from several people. “Manman, Yu Jinghuan, Xiao Huan, your young master is dead.” “Let me take care of you instead.” * In many people’s eyes, Lin Manxing was not only a tacky little country bumpkin, but also a dim-witted girl whose brain had been fried. She spent all day with flowers, plants, cats, and dogs, and didn’t seem very bright. But Lin Manxing didn’t care. As long as she got what she wanted, so what if people thought she was stupid? Besides… Who the real fool was was still up for debate. * The moment Lin Manxing first saw Yu Jinghuan, she knew. Her chance to leave Lin Family Village and escape Lin Qianyao had arrived. And when she learned from the System that Yu Jinghuan had accidentally fallen into the sea and his life or death was unknown, Lin Manxing realized something else. It seemed she’d need to find herself another sucker. Content warnings: 1. This is an id-driven story with average prose and faux coercion. It’s not a strong-female-lead story. The heroine pretends to be a little fool, and the male leads will never learn what she’s really like. The romance is one-on-one in stages, all male leads are virgins, and there’s a high concentration of awful, unhinged, and perverted men. 2. The heroine is already an adult during the Lin Family Village arc. She isn’t really stupid, and she has sex with the male lead Lin Qianyao as an adult. 3. The male leads, currently numbering eight and a half (the System is the half), are all perverts. Any who don’t seem like perverts now will become perverts later. 4. I won’t delete comments. If you find that a comment has disappeared, it was most likely deleted by a bot. 5. This isn’t a strong-female-lead story. The heroine is delicate and naturally devious. Male leads will scheme to possess her and have bouts of lunacy. The author promises there will be no women forcing themselves on men, but there will be men forcing themselves on women. Most of the faux-coercion scenes have been revised, so they may read better now. 6. Most instances of certain profanities have been changed to milder alternatives. If the author accidentally uses misogynistic slurs, readers can point them out in the comments, and the author will revise them when they see the comments. 7. Chapter 53 introduces the original story’s plot. The male lead Yu Jinghuan will lose his memory, but he won’t have any intimate contact with the female lead Pei Manjing, only incidental physical contact, such as the original heroine dragging him off the shore like a dead fish. They won’t fall in love, and the two women won’t compete with each other. The point of this plotline is to usher in the heroine’s first year as a widow, when she sets out to win over the others. Male lead content warnings: 1. Male lead Yu Jinghuan is aggressively macho and has negative manners during the Lin Family Village arc. After that arc, he’ll start pretending to be more civilized. 2. In Chapter 10, male lead Yu Jinghuan splashes water on the heroine. Since quite a few readers may dislike this, I’m calling special attention to it. The author will make sure he later gets shot and falls into the sea, contracts a lung infection, gets hit in the head by a rock, and returns to find that someone has stolen his home. 3. Many readers can’t stand male lead Lin Qianyao. He’ll break his leg in Chapter 33, though it’ll heal, and he’ll be disfigured, though he won’t turn ugly. 4. Male lead Xue Li is a preachy, paternalistic CEO who’s irritating and asks for a smack, but he only talks big. Later, the author will have him eagerly wash underwear. 5. Male lead and butler Qiao Sibai is a pretentious poser. 6. Male lead Ying Yuanbai secretly works as a flirtatious online scammer who pretends to sell tea. He doesn’t show skin or his face, never privately chats about anything inappropriate, and really does only sell tea, through legitimate platforms. The reason for this will be explained later. One reason the author wrote him this way is to have Ying Yuanbai send the heroine suggestive photos and lavish attention on her later. Screenshot from Weibo, September 7, 2024 Here’s the blurb for another upcoming novel, Can a Canary Be Everyone’s Darling? Shang Fuying is a canary kept by Zhou Yunting. To this day, she still doesn’t understand why Zhou Yunting fell so desperately in love with her at first sight, going so far as to marry her against everyone’s advice, all so he could keep her locked in a golden cage forever. * In the third year of being enveloped by Zhou Yunting’s almost-mad love, Shang Fuying accidentally sent him to the hospital with a blow. When Zhou Yunting’s friends and family heard the news, they couldn’t help sighing. Could this pampered canary really have the nerve to bite her master? Everyone came to visit, eager to see what kind of creature this ungrateful canary was. At the time, they never imagined this would be the first moment they fell for her. * Zhou Yunting woke up. This was the man who had once doted on the canary he kept to an absurd degree. Even after she hit him on the head with a vase, his last words before he lost consciousness had been, “A Ying, don’t be afraid.” But when he woke and saw the pale young woman, he merely asked coldly: “Who is she?” * After accidentally hitting Zhou Yunting hard enough to give him amnesia, Shang Fuying finally divorced him. Shang Fuying thought she could at last start a new life. But she never expected to get involved with a group of people even more troublesome than Zhou Yunting. Nor did she expect that after she and Zhou Yunting divorced amicably, he would fall in love with her all over again, even more madly than before. * But so what? Shang Fuying was happy to see it happen. Because It was all an act. Theme: With hard work, you can change your life.