The Green Tea Girl on a Dating Show: Protect Our Female Guests

Good news: Ji Xiamian transmigrated. She finally escaped that messed-up world.

Bad news: She transmigrated into another world that was even more messed up.

This was the very same no-morals dating-show novel she'd stayed up late reading out of sheer morbid curiosity. It had kept her awake half the night, wasting precious time she should have spent resting.

Ji Xiamian: ...

Wait, can you let her finish that argument with her psycho boss first?! Who gets transmigrated halfway through an argument?!

System: Dear user, you died suddenly. To go back, you'll need to complete a mission~

Ji Xiamian gave up without hesitation: Never mind. I'll stay in this world.

The old world had been so deranged that it wasn't worth missing, and there was no way she'd agree to the mission the System had given her, either.

The System actually wanted her to bring the three couples from the dating-show novel together, with no hard feelings between them?!

System: What's the problem?

What's the problem? There are a whole lot of problems!

For starters, not one of the original male leads was any good. One ran what he liked to call a club, but which was really a brothel. He joined the dating show intending to trick Female Lead Number One into working there as the star attraction, and he was also plotting to take over her company.

Another was a sunny, top-of-the-class student on the surface, but in reality he was a gambling addict who also dealt drugs to fund his habit. He joined the show to get the heiress of a conglomerate hooked on drugs. Later, using his disgusting love for her as an excuse, he schemed to have Female Lead Number Two's family killed, and even wanted to inherit her family's fortune through her.

Then there was the classic abusive-novel stand-in CEO. Oh, wait, not a CEO. This story had a little innovation: he was a famous director. Kidnapping, kidney removal, rape...

Every single one of them was a definite candidate for a pair of silver bracelets.

And what about the three female leads?

Ji Xiamian had worried the novel might not match this world, but the moment she met the first of the women, she knew: this was her wonderful big sister!

One gorgeous big sister after another appeared. Ji Xiamian sat between them, so delighted she could barely think straight. A pretty big sister on this side, another on that side. Oh, there wasn't enough room! Why couldn't she clone herself?

How could those scumbags possibly deserve her wonderful big sisters?

Ji Xiamian clenched her fist: Time to fight!

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One

The male lead was supposed to sit beside the female lead.

Ji Xiamian clung to her big sister's arm, looking pitiful. "Big sis~" I'm scared~

Big sister: "Why don't you take another seat?"

Male lead: ?

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Two

The male lead arranged for himself and the female lead to cook together, so they went into the kitchen that day.

Ji Xiamian used getting a drink as an excuse to go in, then squeezed in beside her big sister, calling "Big sis" over and over.

The male lead couldn't take it anymore. "Once you've had your drink, you should go. We'll take it from here."

Ji Xiamian drooped, lowering her eyes as she replied with forced composure, "I know I'm not very likable. I'll leave right now..."

She looked up, tears glimmering in her eyes. "Big sis, I'm going. It just takes me ten or fifteen minutes to get there..."

She took one reluctant step back. "Big sis..."

Big sister: "Wouldn't it be better to have one more person helping? If you think there are too many people, you can leave instead."

Male lead: "I..."

There are three female leads and three male leads in total. Don't get too hung up on the labels. The male leads are all terrible, rotten to the core. Don't compare them to real people; just don't think of them as human.

It's all fictional. Both worlds are fictional, and especially so. Most of it is just my wild imagination, so don't take it too seriously.

[Pre-release: Be Your Mom, Help You Rise to the Top

There are always people in this world with extraordinary talent who, through one twist of fate or another, die young or spend their lives achieving nothing. What a waste. The System told her she could help them, as long as she signed a contract with it.

Wu Xiangsi agreed with the System, but she accepted its offer because she didn't want to die.

Wu Xiangsi didn't want to die. She wanted to live.

Mother was the role she chose for herself.

World One: A future world divided by class

Someone else was now inside that woman's body, and this stranger asked her to call her Mother.

She found it absurd. She'd switched souls, an incredible feat, just to become someone's mother?

The next day, she got a new name: Taotie.

People from the garbage district were garbage, and people from low-tier planets were low-class. The high-tier planets were playgrounds for the great families, and joining one was the only way to get an entry ticket.

The people up high smiled down and tossed out bait. The fish began tearing into one another. Taotie's appetite was too great for a little bait, and there weren't enough fish, either. She would climb to the top and see the fear on their faces.

Come on, tear off those masks. You who speak such pretty words, can you still smile?

The people praised her, feared her, worshipped her. She scraped away the festering evil, tore through the clouds, and brought in the light... We will remember you, Taotie.

In her first life, she had no name in the eyes of the world. In this life, no one could ignore her.

Taotie closed her eyes and put her palms together.

Mother, Mother, how should I thank you? I should offer you my achievements, my flesh and blood, even this heart of mine.

Leave me only a skeleton, carrying the hopes you placed in me, and let me keep walking, day and night, without ever stopping.

World Two: A chaotic world torn by war

My mother picked me up and took me home. She is my mother.

If I eat too much, if I'm slow-witted and foolish, Mother, are you disappointed?

Wu Xiangsi: You're so strong and sturdy that it makes sense you eat a lot. You're slow-witted and foolish, but you can tell things apart. Someone will always be there to think for you, bringing you their schemes and hoping you'll put them to use.

So I smiled. I grew proud.

Today the sun rose in the west, but people were too busy to notice. They were scrambling to avoid wars, great and small. Was there still a hidden paradise in this world? Would people see one when they died?

The people up high raised their battle flags, trading blows and drawing on maps. I want this piece. So the soldiers lifted their banners and offered their blood. The dead were not just people; they were someone's family.

I was born to drink blood, and to hold lives in my hands. Those who called themselves noble and thought the blood and lives of ordinary people were mere dust and ashes must have something different in theirs. Of course I wanted to drink it and take a look. I wanted to try what nobility tasted like.

People stopped talking about hidden paradises. They talked about how nice the sun was today, what to eat tomorrow, whose family had a happy occasion this month, and how the harvest was this year. When someone died, they buried them in the earth and burned paper offerings for them at the festival.

Mother, do you think it's time for me to be proud?

I think of you day and night, my mother. Even if I die, even if I become no more than a wisp of dust.

World Three: ... (To be continued)]

Theme: Even in the mud, keep growing with all your might. There is light ahead.