“Mm… ah…”
“…Lower your waist a bit more?”
“Baby…”
“Next… red wine or milk?”
After a soft gasp, the young man’s clear voice transmitted through the electronic device, tinged with static, inexplicably turned low and husky, carrying an ambiguous undertone.
The camera focused on the young man’s body, which possessed both youthful innocence and mature allure. His shoulders were damp with sweat, and the light filtering through the curtain gap made his skin gleam a brilliant white.
Several thin silver chains hung across his back, mostly hidden in the dimness, with only the parts near the dimples of his lower back eagerly catching the light.
An ice cube nestled in the hollow of his lower back slid playfully back and forth as he arched and lowered his waist, a silent seduction.
The melted ice water traced a wet trail down the narrow groove and disappeared into the depths of his pants.
When he retrieved the ice cube, the young man deliberately sat with his legs apart, facing the camera.
His lean chest muscles and abdominal muscles were fully exposed to the lens, flushed a light pink from the exertion of too many push-ups.
Further up, only his beautiful collarbones were visible—he hadn’t shown his face.
Yu Jinyao stared, utterly dumbfounded.
In the dimly lit room, the girl instinctively reached up to adjust her glasses, only to grasp at empty air.
It was then she realized she had transmigrated into the book. Suppressing her embarrassment, she forced her voice to sound cold and mature.
“None of that is needed. Let’s stop here for today.”
Without waiting for the other party to respond, she quickly tapped the prominent red button and ended the video call.
Letting out a sigh of relief, the girl snapped back to reality and felt a bit ashamed of herself for being so weak-willed.
Yes, she too had joined the ranks of transmigrators.
A month ago, Yu Jinyao had inexplicably been bound to a Mary Sue System and thrown into a novel she had never even read.
[Host, I am the Early Mary Sue Drama Character Enrichment and Plot-Hole Filling System, not a Mary Sue System.]
Catching the brainwaves related to itself, the system’s cold voice echoed in her mind.
“Your name is too long… Didn’t we agree you wouldn’t pry into my inner thoughts?”
[The system cannot pry into the host’s inner thoughts. It can only capture brainwaves related to the mission.]
Forget it, there was no reasoning with this robotic system.
In short, the system gave her tasks, and upon completion, she would receive a hundred million in prize money and a healthy body.
Yu Jinyao didn’t want her normal life disrupted either, but it was offering far too much.
Money was exactly what she needed, and a healthy body was something she had dreamed of.
She didn’t have any major ailments in her original world—just severe myopia, hair loss from academic and life stress, dull skin, acne, irregular menstruation…
God knew how thrilled she was when she transmigrated into the book and saw the world with such clarity. She had almost wept with joy.
If completing the tasks could free her from severe myopia, she was a hundred percent willing!
But what truly blew her mind was that this system with the ridiculously long name was like a ruthless capitalist taskmaster. Others transmigrated into one book—she had been thrown into three at once!
Looking at the two pink-covered books and one black-covered book in her mind, the veins on her temples began to throb.
The three books were titled: The Noble Academy: F4 All Love the White Lotus, Crowned Best Actor, I Became Famous Overnight, and The True Heir Returns: Commanding the Top Tycoon Family.
She was to play, respectively, the rich girl’s sidekick at the noble academy, the roommate of a washed-up male lead in an entertainment industry novel, and the online romance partner of the fake heir during his fall from grace.
Two female-oriented novels and one male-oriented novel. After skimming through the plots, Yu Jinyao’s vision went black, then black again.
But once you’re on a pirate ship, there’s no getting off. Fortunately, she didn’t need to pursue anyone or complete any specific missions.
She just needed to fill two metrics while following the plot.
[Plot Richness: 0]
[Character Depth: 0]
After transmigrating, Yu Jinyao had carefully studied the system’s name. Though she still couldn’t memorize the lengthy title, she had figured out the essence of her task.
Readers were dissatisfied with the overly clichéd and melodramatic plots, and the authors had left many plot holes unfilled. She needed to add interest to the story and make the characters more well-rounded while completing the basic plot.
That was easier said than done—practically the same as a boss demanding “five-color black.”
She had to keep the overall plot on track according to her character setting, while also enriching the plot and fleshing out the character.
A plot device female supporting character—no matter how much she bounced around, how much richer could she really make the plot?
Everything had to be figured out slowly, step by step.
Yu Jinyao stared at the black screen of her phone.
That male bodhisattva who had just been selling his looks was Shen Xinghe, the villain from the third book—the only male-oriented novel, The True Heir Returns: Commanding the Top Tycoon Family.
This was also the first task she had started.
By now, the Shen family had already discovered that Shen Xinghe was a fake heir. While he was abroad on an exchange program, they had cut off his financial support and even hired assassins to kill him.
—In all her readings of fake-heir novels, this was the first time Yu Jinyao had seen a family abandon their fake heir so ruthlessly.
Shen Xinghe fled in panic, utterly bewildered and clueless, plummeting from young master to a rat in the gutter, surviving by hiding and skulking, nearly dying abroad.
And Yu Jinyao became his only lifeline.
She was also the Plot Device Character who helped him grow into a villain, build his power, and return home to cause trouble for the male lead.
When Yu Jinyao first transmigrated over, Shen Xinghe was hiding in someone’s storage room, making a living by singing in voice chat rooms.
He couldn’t take any job that required showing his face, so he could only climb the ladder and scrape by with his voice.
Yu Jinyao went straight for him, and with money to spare, followed the plot, quickly becoming Shen Xinghe’s one and only big sister, generously letting him dip into her pockets.
Obviously, it was also because she gave too much that Shen Xinghe directly entered a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship with her, protecting only her.
In this male-oriented novel, she was cast as the wicked, fickle bad woman—while she provided help to the villain, she also required him to sell his looks.
In just this one month, aside from never having seen Shen Xinghe’s face, she had practically seen every inch of his body!
The two of them later became partners in crime, a bona fide villain couple.
Setting aside what came later, just building a persona online and playing at flirtation had already drained her body and mind.
Thinking that school was about to start, and the washed-up male lead was in the next bedroom, with three storylines about to unfold simultaneously, she wanted to light a candle for herself.
Dragging her weary body and mind, Yu Jinyao first transferred a sum of money to Shen Xinghe, then typed out a few cold words.
After that, she tossed her phone aside and fell into a deep sleep.
…
On another continent, it was daytime.
A young man sat on the floor, a phone propped behind him recording his wanton appearance.
A sliver of light from the gap in the curtains fell across the center of his body, splitting him into two halves of darkness.
His eyes in the dimness held no emotion, cold as the bone-chilling water of a frozen lake.
[Platinum Bank: 100,000 yuan received.]
Shen Xinghe turned around and took down the phone. Along with the payment notification came four words from “Jinjin.”
[Good performance.]
Finally, a trace of warmth appeared in his eyes.
Content warnings: 1. Multiple male leads; everyone except the female lead is not normal.
Includes: the lofty flower falling from the altar, an upright puppy turning bad for love, a rational senior going mad with impulse, a peacock man showing off to no effect, a damp and sinister ghost in humble pure love, a selfish careerist giving up everything…
All male leads are pure—specifically, they’ve never kissed or slept with anyone else, nor truly loved anyone else. Extreme purity fans, stay away.
The female lead is the most beautiful in the entire story, beautiful without knowing it, slow to catch on and not easily moved. Not a “strong female lead” type, no side couples.
Contains forced love, dark rooms, and jealousy-fueled showdowns. Warning: morally questionable content ahead!
[Brain Storage]