After Picking Up a Dominant Male-Lead-Type Overlord

A sweet girl who's strong but frail VS a ruthless, unhinged madman with a sensitive heart

[This novel has been heavily revised. Please read Chapter 10, then start from Chapter 29 for the newly updated content!]

[First-love romance, sweet and sour.]

Jiang Zhiyu transmigrates into a book, becoming a cannon-fodder character in a dark male-oriented novel. She fails to seduce the male lead and gets skinned to make a beauty lantern.

The System doesn't care about her feelings and insists that she form an early bond with the male lead.

Jiang Zhiyu refuses, of course. She immediately packs up and heads back to Jizhou to live as a carefree princess, afraid she'll run into the male lead.

On the way, she meets a poor soul being bullied at work. He's been disfigured, gets beaten every day, and can't even straighten his back.

The poor soul has never had a peaceful day in his life, yet he's still kind enough to save her several times. Jiang Zhiyu decides to take him to Yizhou to enjoy a better life.

She gives him a lovely name, and the two support each other along the way as their feelings grow.

But when they are nearly at Jizhou, the poor soul transforms into the male lead, the madman who loves to fly into a rage.

The System lets out a piercing shriek.

Jiang Zhiyu: ...Heaven wants me dead!

Now she has to follow the System's plot while dealing with Wei Fuyan's sudden outbursts.

She's a brick, sent wherever she's needed.

Jiang Zhiyu is exhausted in body and mind.

In the novel, almost every character is either a little sick or a little crazy. The male lead, Wei Fuyan, is the worst of them all, an absolute phenomenon in every respect.

He loves to toy with people's hearts and manipulate several chess games at once, stirring up trouble in hidden corners and calculating everyone into his schemes.

He's both crazy and ruthless, pursuing his goals as if bent on destroying everything.

Jiang Zhiyu thinks that after traveling together for so long, they must have developed some feelings for each other. Maybe, just maybe.

Later, when everyone pushes her to follow the plot, she finally learns that the poor soul was never a poor soul at all. It was all just her beautiful fantasy.

If she hadn't still been useful, she might not even have made it back to Jizhou.

Everyone is forcing her, and she wants to go home so badly.

That night, Jiang Zhiyu dies a gruesome death.

She switches her fake-death medicine with Wei Fuyan's poison.

Blood spills from the corner of her mouth, staining her lapel red, and her tears won't stop flowing. The poison the System gave her is so bitter, bitter enough to make her internal organs ache.

At the very end, she sees the love letter she hid in her writing desk. She was afraid the poor soul would feel inferior after being disfigured, so she planned to confess to him when they got back to Yizhou. That way, she'd have a reason to protect him in the future.

What a shame. It was the first love letter she'd ever written...

In the final years of Tianqi, Wei Fuyan's hair turns white overnight. He tortures Emperor Wei'an to death and purges the opposing faction. After that, no one dares speak of the Tianqi era again.

In the first year of Dayu, the new emperor builds the Wangxian Terrace to seek answers from the spirits and gods.

The next year, the new emperor makes the deceased princess his empress. They marry on the Qiqiao Festival, and the whole nation celebrates.

In the third year, he wages war everywhere, hoping to set foot on every inch of the world.

Wei Fuyan spends his life in slaughter and scheming. He trusts no one and believes in neither gods nor ghosts. He never imagined he would meet a goddess who loved and protected him, that he would do everything he could to keep her, or that one day he would pray night and day at Wangxian Terrace for divine mercy.

Reading Guide:

1. The male lead is trash and scum. When I say dark, I mean he has no morals or conscience. In the later part, the female lead is the only one holding his leash (he really isn't a good person).

2. Not a strong female lead. Focus on the romance.

3. Everyone except the female lead is evil.

4. The male lead isn't good-looking at first. Beauty and the Beast.

5. The female lead has a special ability to attract abnormal men and women.

Theme: Love is precious, but life is even more precious.