I Don’t Want to Be the Protagonist Anymore

First published on Jinjiang Literature City.

[Sunny, energetic, happy little tiger shou, younger x possessive, obsessive, lovestruck-by-his-own-imagination gong, older]

Bai Ye transmigrated into a cultivation novel with a female lead who soared to power, becoming that very heroine. She also got a golden finger System.

But the unreliable System was running on the script of a fanfiction, and not just any fanfiction: an adult one.

In the original story, Bai Ye would find the injured Zhong Jiuli by the river. The woman's white robes were stained with blood, and her wet black hair clung to her pale, snowy skin. Her beauty was breathtaking.

She was the strongest character in the book, the leader of the Three Purities Sect in the Kunxu Sacred Land, the very epitome of beautiful, powerful, and tragic. She was the character every fan had regrets about.

So one of the fans wrote an 18+ fanfiction, full of explicit erotica and a chaotic jumble of pairings.

After Bai Ye was bound to the System, she learned from it that Zhong Jiuli would be her future wife. And so began the utterly inexplicable task of taking care of her future wife.

One accident led to them sleeping together. Afterward, Zhong Jiuli languidly stroked her collar with slender fingers, a faint blush still lingering at the corners of her eyes. She brought her other hand to Bai Ye's cheek and was just about to speak.

Then she heard the electronic voice in Bai Ye's mind.

[Congratulations, Host. The mission is complete. We can go win over the next female lead now!]

Zhong Jiuli smiled. The hand resting on Bai Ye's cheek slowly slid down to her neck and tightened, choking Bai Ye until her face flushed red. Bai Ye had no idea what was going on.

You little brat. You take what you want and then try to run?

She wanted to see which female lead could possibly be worth this little rascal's effort to seduce. She had plenty of clones, after all. She'd play along with the little rascal for a while.

After parting from Zhong Jiuli, Bai Ye thought about her every day. Before long, she felt as though she were hallucinating, seeing a hint of Zhong Jiuli in every woman she met.

Then one day, when three women gathered in the same room, Bai Ye suddenly realized that they might, possibly, perhaps, more or less, all really be Zhong Jiuli.

Reading guide:

1. 1v1, happy ending, both are virgins. This should be a fairly long novel.

2. The plot and romance should each make up about half.

3. No men, 99% female cast, and all the main characters are women.

4. The romance is a little slow at first. 70% anti-piracy protection.

5. Bai Ye is the gong.

6. After the little white tiger turns human, her hair is silver-white. I don't know if that's a dealbreaker, so I'm mentioning it here.

Coming soon: Wanton Possession

* Forced love, coercive control, age gap, younger partner, happy ending

* The leads have a ten-year age gap.

* Younger, tough and taciturn, a wolfish puppy with a sweet side x older, gentle on the surface but ruthless and wicked underneath

1. The year Li Shiyi first met Su Nianqing, she was about to turn eighteen. She didn't yet understand what love was, but her heart and eyes were full of this woman.

The woman wore a pearl-white pantsuit, its neckline slightly open, with a collarbone deep enough to raise fish in. A faint sheen of sweat marked her cheek. Pinching a business card between her fingers, she held it out and said in a husky voice, "Su Nianqing, secretary in the CEO's office at Li Xiang Group."

Li Shiyi's gaze lingered over the gold-embossed business card, but she didn't take it.

After she broke her arm, the two began a brief period of living together. Su Nianqing's gentle company and her beautiful profile, brows lowered over her desk late at night, made the wild longing in Li Shiyi's heart grow like weeds with each passing day.

On the night of Li Shiyi's eighteenth birthday, alcohol clouded both their judgment. The newly adult girl pinned her older sister beneath her, eyes red and voice trembling. "Sis... teach me."

The woman's long black hair spilled loose. Her eyes were stormy, and red marks covered her pale neck where the puppy had nipped her. Unable to bear it any longer, she reached out and clasped the girl's burning palm, guiding it along her curves as it roamed freely.

The next day, Li Shiyi woke from her hangover to find the bed beside her already cold. She gently touched the marks the woman had left the night before and murmured, "Sis, you were mine long ago. It's too late to run now."

2. Years later, their positions were reversed.

Su Nianqing brought home the little wolf pup who had been wandering for years. By day, she was impeccably dressed in a suit. After night fell, she unbuttoned her shirt and beckoned her now-grown lover with a finger. "Come here."

"Pay me back for everything you owe me from all these years, with interest."

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