I'm the Cannon-Fodder Heroine in a Pure-Love Story

[Reading Guide]

There will be no romantic relationships between men in this story. The male leads are all heterosexual at heart.

Both leads are virgins, and the female lead has transmigrated.

There are more male leads than the two mentioned in the blurb. Choose your favorite: gloomy male ghost / devoted puppy / green-tea younger man / aloof grandmaster (*^▽^*)

Song Ying transmigrates into a minor character in a male-oriented ensemble novel and marries a scholar.

Her husband is gentle and considerate, and the couple live in harmonious, if uneventful, happiness.

But in their third year of marriage, she falls gravely ill. No medicine can cure her.

The moment Song Ying breathes her last, a group of people rush into the room and restrain her husband.

The man at their head smiles, lifts Xu Pingyan's chin with the ribs of his fan, and whispers something in his ear.

Ren Duanyu. She remembers him. Xu Pingyan picked him up by the roadside two years ago.

Xu Pingyan lowers his eyes and lets the fan ribs slip into his collar. Calmly, he says, "As you wish."

As soon as he finishes speaking, a line of text appears: The White Moonlight of the Dragon-Wielding Hero, Volume One.

Main CP: Ren Duanyu x Xu Pingyan, no switching or breaking them up. #ForcedPossession #Angst #Tragedy #Chasing-the-Lover-to-the-Crematorium #BadEnding

Song Ying: ...What?

Thinking of Xu Pingyan's inexplicable injuries and the disgust in his eyes whenever he looked at Ren Duanyu, she understood everything.

What male-oriented ensemble novel? She'd clearly transmigrated into a danmei novel!

When she opens her eyes again, Song Ying is back before her marriage to Xu Pingyan.

One night, she returns home unusually late. The wind howls, rain lashes down, and a water ghost who drowned in the flood blocks her path.

"Save me... Please..."

Song Ying silently looks at the words "Duanyu" on the water ghost's sword and smiles sweetly.

Ren Duanyu comes from a distinguished family and has always had everything going for him. Unfortunately, his unusual constitution has kept him from finding a cultivation partner, and he has been unable to break through to the next realm.

While traveling to gain experience, he is ambushed. When he wakes, a young woman is sitting beside him.

In a gentle voice, she asks if he is hurt, what his name is, and which sect he belongs to, so she can send for someone to collect him.

Ren Duanyu replies sincerely, "I don't mean to trouble you. It's just that I'm..."

Before he can finish, the young woman raises a wooden club and brings it down hard on him!

Ren Duanyu stares at her in shock.

The young woman lifts the club, wipes off the blood, and says in a gentle voice, her face expressionless, "Now you can rest and recover properly, sir. Get some good sleep."

Xu Pingyan has lately felt that something is off about Song Ying.

He often sees her sneaking out in the middle of the night, only to return looking exhausted just before dawn.

Then he picks up a badly injured man by the roadside and brings him home

Song Ying stops going out.

She starts spending her time by the window, motionless, watching the man recovering in the courtyard.

And Ren Duanyu seems to enjoy Song Ying's attention. Every day, he goes around smiling and flirting with people.

Xu Pingyan regrets saving him.

He wishes Ren Duanyu would die.

[Upcoming novel, please add to your favorites] My Friend's Wife Is Fair Game

[A spoiled, willful young lady x a nobleman who talks himself into falling for her]

Lu Shiyi, daughter of the Marquis of Ding'an, has been pampered and indulged since childhood. She grows into a beauty famed far and wide.

Then disaster strikes: her father goes missing, her fiance dies in battle, and her stepmother forces her into marriage. Every path forward is shut off.

On the night she runs away from her wedding, she meets her fiance's close friend, Cui Heng.

Cui Heng is the legitimate son of a duke, a man of noble bearing and unmatched elegance. He and Lu Shiyi have never gotten along particularly well.

Looking at his cool, handsome features, Lu Shiyi has a sudden thought:

Cui Heng may be annoying, but he holds a high position and is an upright man. If she can get his protection, she'll have a way out.

In a torrential downpour, the soaked young woman collapses weakly into Cui Heng's arms, her eyes glistening with tears.

"Darling, where are we? My head hurts so much..."

*

Most of Cui Heng's impressions of Lu Shiyi come from his close friend, Meng Zhao.

More than once, he's heard Meng Zhao complain that Lu Shiyi is spoiled, vain, willful, and rude, making a scene whenever things don't go her way. She would make a terrible wife.

He thinks he'll only have to shelter her for a few days. But then she's caught in an assassination attempt and takes an arrow meant for him.

From then on, the household servants, cosmetics, and hairpins all have to be just right. Whenever she's unhappy, she cries, throws a tantrum, and threatens to hang herself. "I'm homeless and have no memories. You're the only one I can rely on. If even you don't want me, I might as well die..."

Cui Heng's face turns impassive. He's nearly snapped the new jade hairpin he bought for her inside his sleeve.

*

A young lady who appeared out of nowhere, wearing an innocent face, manages to make the Heir Cui storm out in anger every day.

The people of the Cui household wait in fear, expecting Lu Shiyi to be sent back to her hometown.

Half a year later... the heir accompanies his fiancee, his face still cold, to a newly opened jewelry shop.

But eventually, word gets out that she's been hiding in the Cui residence.

Just then, her fiance, who had been presumed dead, returns to the capital. Lu Shiyi packs her things and runs away that very night.

"I was wrong before. I mistook you for someone else and imposed on you for so long. Now that Meng Zhao is back and my memories have returned, thank you for everything you've done for me..."

The longer she writes the farewell letter, the guiltier she feels. Cui Heng has always hated her. Surely he'd be glad of the chance to be rid of her.

The bedroom is dark, and a shadow shifts faintly.

Cui Heng, dressed in a single layer, leans against the doorway and asks softly, "Shiyi, are you running away from your marriage again?"

"Where are you running off to this time? Don't you need your husband to go with you?"

[Bonus Scene]

To thank his friend for looking after his fiancee, Meng Zhao hosts a banquet.

After a few rounds of drinks, he leaves to find his fiancee, who is sobering up, but sees Cui Heng entangled with a woman behind a rockery, where muffled sobs can be heard.

His usually composed and distant friend is disheveled, with a distinct handprint on his cheek.

Cui Heng shields the woman completely and says calmly, "I've already had someone escort Miss Lu back to her room."

Only then does Meng Zhao relax. He reminds his friend that if the lady is unwilling, he should take things slowly.

He doesn't realize that just a few steps away, in the shadow of the rockery,

Lu Shiyi is covering her mouth with both hands, tears streaming down her face as she holds her breath.

Her clothes are disheveled, and a red mark is faintly visible on her neck.

It was left there by Cui Heng during their tussle moments ago.

Theme: Love yourself before loving someone else