The Most Popular Girl in Sin City

This is Hongdu, a city woven from violence, money, and power.

The one thing it has no room for is love.

I'm Xuedai, a lowly fifth-class citizen in this city. I was supposed to scrape by like a rat for the rest of my life, but I was beautiful.

Beauty is the least scarce thing in this era, but no one else is like me: raw, delicate, and pure.

They said I deserved protection, so I managed to marry a second-class citizen and become one of the upper crust.

But there are no fairy tales in Hongdu, and certainly no love.

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My husband cheated on me, and everyone thought I killed him.

When I stood before the High Court, the judge was going to sentence me to death.

With tears in my eyes, I turned my most perfect profile toward the crowd.

They pitied me, so my sentence was suspended.

If love can't keep me alive,

then I'll trample all over your love.

Reader's Guide:

1. Not for readers who require chaste characters or pure romance. There is no male lead, only the one female lead, Xuedai. (I only guarantee that the major male characters are chaste.)

2. An extreme dose of female worship, a dark, twisted, universally adored heroine, and lots of one-sided crushes.

3. In some ways, dog-training fiction and an underdog rising to the top.

4. Every man in this novel is straight, and firmly so. I can't spoil why, but don't worry, dear readers.

5. She's adored by everyone, not just every man. The words are only one character apart, but the difference is huge.

[Next novel]

[The System Says I Must Steal the Male Lead's Fortunes]

Ye Manfu is an ordinary person. She thought she was living in an ordinary world.

Apart from the fact that, after dying, her soul had transmigrated into a cultivation world, everything was so ordinary and commonplace: from the friendly fellow disciples who slacked off with her during lessons, to the greedy, sly gatekeeper who often turned a blind eye to her antics.

And of course, there was him, the one Ye Manfu loved.

He was Jieshan's senior disciple, the foremost cultivator in the sect, his radiance like moonlight. He was also the genius Ye Manfu secretly admired.

And he was also...

"What? You're saying this world is a no-romance cultivation novel with a male lead, he's the protagonist, and my mission is to steal his opportunities and take his place at the end of the story?"

After meeting her System, ordinary person Ye Manfu's ordinary life came to an end. What awaited her was...

"Wait, so I've got the power fantasy script where I trample Jieshan underfoot, cultivate to immortality, marry my senior brother, and reach the pinnacle of life?"

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From the day he was born, Zhang Xianxian was told he was destined to achieve the Great Dao. But only he knew the terrible secret of this world.

Cultivation had never really been about cultivating. Seeking immortality and the Great Dao was nothing but a lie.

And the most terrifying thing about this world was that even after he had destroyed it twice, everything still started over again.

But this time...

"Senior Brother, I'm your junior sister. Master just took me in as a disciple. My name is Ye Manfu."

"Senior Brother, sorry, I'll be taking this treasure. You don't mind, do you?"

"Senior Brother, Senior Brother..."

"Senior Brother, you're wrong. No one should be born to exist for the sake of sacrificing themselves for someone else. If that's the case, then this world is what's wrong."

He smiled and agreed, but snuck into her room in the middle of the night.

She was the only variable in this world's cycle of reincarnation. Should he just... kill her?

He measured her neck with his hand again and again, but never brought it down.

He bent over, leaning close to her ear, and whispered in a sickly, gentle voice:

"Fellow Daoist Ye, may we walk the same path."

Reader's Guide:

1. An ordinary, sunshine-filled heroine who grows into herself VS a male lead who's a true saint on the surface but a mad, ghostly menace underneath. (The heroine is perfectly normal. The male lead... is technically a person.)

2. Not a traditional cultivation novel. Most elements are original to this story, with Chinese-style cosmic horror and some mild horror scenes.

3. The male lead's perspective is an old-school tragic romance, while the heroine's is a horror survival story. Two flavors in one novel, to suit different tastes.

4. The heroine has a crush on the male lead from the start, but it's more like admiring someone she looks up to. She idealizes him, but that image will eventually shatter. In the story, he falls first.

5. Both are pure in body and heart, and love only each other. Plot-focused.

6. Both put duty before feelings, though the male lead may sometimes put them on equal footing or even prioritize feelings.

Theme: Take control of your own destiny