The Female Side Character Really Wants the Protagonists to Get a Happy Ending

[I'm planning to write this next: Can I Save the Upcoming Story in My Favorites? After the System Personally Steps In to Train the Male Supporting Character. Love you all!]

Blurb:

Li Manshi is a standard modern college student who has given up trying and just wants to lie flat.

She transmigrates into an old-school, melodramatic cultivation novel, and the System tells her she must complete two tasks before she can return to real life.

1. Main quest: pave the way for the original novel's male and female leads to reach their happy ending.

So Li Manshi becomes the love-life security guard for the original leads.

Supporting female character A wants to pretend to trip into the male lead's arms. Sorry, I caught you, so you can just fall into mine instead.

Supporting female character A: ...

Supporting female character B wants to bring the male lead some pastries. Sorry, I'm a little hungry. Can I eat them first?

Supporting female character B: ...

2. Side quest: help the original leads complete their missions and make the world peaceful and beautiful. But Li Manshi wants to lie flat. "I'm not going. I can't even beat those monsters."

So the System starts a punishment countdown: "Three, two..."

Ever flexible, Li Manshi slaps the System aside. "I love protecting the world more than anything. Nobody's stopping me!"

System: "..."

Whenever they go out to exorcise demons, the System makes her charge in first. Does it think she's a punching bag?

So Li Manshi names her spirit sword Hold It. Every time a fight breaks out, she manages to freeze her opponents for three seconds!

As Li Manshi keeps trying to bring the male and female leads together, she keeps triggering hidden storylines.

Li Manshi: I don't know either. Every day, I somehow start a storyline that wasn't in the original book.

Forced to become the leads' guardian deity, she can only beg them not to die! If you two die, what happens to my quest progress?!!!

As her quests keep leveling up, Li Manshi decides she wants to lie flat. Whoever wants this lousy job can have it. The System headquarters can't stand it anymore, so they turn her System into a bird and send it to stay by her side.

Li Manshi: Oh? A punching bag!

The System, now a bird: Danger!!!

One night, while Li Manshi is still completing quests, cicadas chirp incessantly in the sweltering, heavy air. Pei Zizhao leans beneath a gardenia tree, no trace of his usual unruly arrogance. With the sweet fragrance of osmanthus wine about him, he tells Li Manshi, each word serious: "He already has a Dao companion. You can't come between them."

"He's not a disciple of our sect. You can't betray your sect, so you can't like him."

"He's full of lies. It's obvious he's just trying to trick young girls, so you can't like him either."

Me: "...?" Still hard at work completing my quests, I silently type a question mark. Who do I like? Why are there three of them now?

Later, the usually arrogant young man, who cares deeply about his image, stands before her, drenched in blood and utterly unconcerned with appearances. He blocks an attack from another sect and helps her escape...

Pre-release blurb for When the System Personally Steps In to Train the Male Supporting Character:

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A lucky soul transmigrates into a xianxia world as the devoted male supporting character in a book. His System gives him the task of winning over the female lead and taking her place at her side.

The System headquarters has a major headache on its hands: this supporting character never follows the script. He's either targeting the female lead or stealing her golden finger, constantly working against the protagonists.

He even stabs the female lead with his sword in the end. The first dozen Systems all abandon the mission and move on to supervising other Hosts. So this difficult task falls to He Yi.

From the System headquarters, He Yi watches Lu Xianhe's rebellious antics through an omniscient perspective. After restarting the book over and over, she makes up her mind: she will personally step in and train the male supporting character, turning him into a capable player of the romance game.

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Lu Xianhe transmigrates into a book. When he first arrives in this world, something claiming to be a System appears in his mind and assigns him a task.

He can only transmigrate back after completing it.

Looking at the silly, sweet female lead, who can only scream for help whenever something happens, Lu Xianhe is so exasperated he laughs. You want me to suck up to the original female lead and win her over, then shove the male lead aside and take his place? Ha! Do I look that pathetic? I'm not going to grovel and beg anyone. Whether I win her over or finish the task, I don't care. I'm perfectly happy staying in this world. What about it?

Then one day, a young woman climbs the mountain to seek a master, specifically asking to become Lu Xianhe's junior sister.

Later, this usually arrogant, lawless, and willful young man is finally reined in by her and brought completely to heel.

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[Bonus Scene]

When the plot takes a strange turn:

[The System supervisor thinks the mission is finally going smoothly. But when he taps the screen to open it, he sees one person sitting among a mountain of corpses, chin resting on one hand as she smiles recklessly, while another stands beside her, looking relaxed. The two of them look just like a pair of bullies.

The System supervisor glances at the numerous disciples lying on the ground.

He covers his face in despair. Is this what happens when He Yi personally steps in to train the male supporting character? Is this world really about to be destroyed?]

[One day after the two leave, the young lord of Nanjilingtian is carried back to his sect by two disciples, his face swollen and blood spilling from his mouth. Someone asks, "Have you found Senior Brother Lu and Junior Sister He?"

At this, he grows even more furious, spits out three mouthfuls of blood, and curses, "Your young lord has become someone else's dog!"

"Those two nearly beat me to death, and they're doing just fine!"

After saying that, he passes out.

Everyone looks at one another. Whose dog did he become?]

#Rumor has it that the runaway young lord of Yunmeng Sect willingly went off to be someone else's dog.

Reader's Guide:

1. A light ensemble cast, with a happy ending.

2. The female lead grows over time. She isn't the strongest from the start.

3. The female lead falls in love relatively late, while the male lead falls first. But he keeps agonizing over it and convincing himself she's interested. It's not that they have no fate together and the author is forcing them into a couple.

4. The plot and romance are split 60/40. A mountain of author-created lore, and my own take on cultivation.

5. The side quests before chapter twenty are a little dull. Later, the female lead will trigger many hidden storylines as she completes her missions.

Theme: Beyond the sunken boat, a thousand sails pass; before the withered tree, ten thousand trees bloom anew.