I was a maniac for web novels with satisfying, cathartic plots.
The world of web novels, which I first discovered in my frustrating everyday life, was fantastic.
“Heroine sister, ditch that jerk and grab a new Benz!”
Every time the heroine abandoned her cheating, worthless ex for a stunningly handsome man, my wallet opened up without hesitation.
The heroines would dump the losers, bankrupt them, get revenge on their treacherous best friends, and increase their fortunes.
Shedding tears over hardships wasn’t something the heroines of these invigorating stories did.
To me, stuck in a stifling reality, the protagonists of these web novels offered vicarious satisfaction.
Seeing how the heroines of romance fantasies elegantly buried all sorts of scumbags was incredibly refreshing.
I always expressed my gratitude to the authors with generous payments and comments.
“Author, please post more chapters!”
After reading so many romance fantasies, I sometimes fantasized about being possessed by a character in one. I imagined myself as the sole daughter of a prestigious, wealthy family, wrongfully rumored to be a villainess, causing my fiancé to seek a breakup.
“Really? Okay then. If you dislike me, I don’t want this marriage either. But since you want to break off our engagement, I’ll need a hefty compensation for my tarnished reputation.”
Then, I’d coolly accept the breakup and ‘snap!’ attend parties to hunt for a new man. People would gossip about me, unable to take their eyes off the jewels I wore, and I would revel in their jealousy as I dazzled the social scene.
Something like ‘Ines, the Black Rose of the Duke’s Family’ would be a fitting nickname.
Behind the scenes, I’d run a mercenary group, accept missions from the protagonist, enjoy festivals, and even be ready to raid slave markets.
Not just some extra who gets briefly mentioned and then forgotten.
Not an extra doomed to a tragic death.
Not a miserable, abused extra!
“But to be briefly married to the main character and then assassinated? Are you kidding me? Is my life on a timer? I demand a refund!”
One day, as I fought with my wicked stepsiblings and faced an accidental death.
I opened my eyes to find myself in the world of a novel. Good, modern readers of possession stories are always ready to be transported into their favorite novels upon death.
The problem was.
“Miss Annette!”
“This is me?”
I had possessed the body of Annette Forshe. The neglected, abused eldest daughter of the Forshe family, a nominal wife of the main character, and an extra who dies right after being mentioned!
That was me.
“Alright, let’s spin the reincarnation roulette again.”
As an avid reader, I quickly assessed my situation and decided this body had to be abandoned. There was no hope.
The very fact of being possessed in a novel was nonsensical. If I’m going to die, might as well spin the reincarnation roulette again and hope for a life in ‘The Youngest Daughter of the Tyrant Emperor’ or something.
I can be ‘daddy’s little girl’ too. If the tyrant emperor showers me with gold bars, I can certainly act cute and charming.
I admit, I was a bit crazy then.
“The courage you show now decides your life as a possessed person.”
“Miss Annette, what are you doing!”
“Let me go, I need to enter a different story!”
“This lady has gone mad, truly!”
My attempt to quickly restart by banging my head against the wall was sadly thwarted.
The servants, who usually ignored Annette, were surprisingly alert this time.
I ended up tied up and confined in my room.
“No! I should have rebelled from the start! I’m not Annette, I tell you!”
“Do you want to keep talking nonsense after eating fine food? Even if you don’t want to marry, should you behave like this? Calm down and reflect on yourself in there!”
Thus, my attempt to deny my current reality was thwarted.
“Please, God! It would have been better to be a jilted villainess. At least she has money and honor!”
But Annette had nothing. Not even a long life ahead.
Locked in Annette’s room, starving all day, I thought to myself, how could God be so cruel?
In my previous life, I was a child of a remarried family. My mother had passed away, and my father remarried almost as if he had been waiting for her to go.
And, unfortunately, Annette, the body I had possessed, was in the same situation.
“Could it be that I was given this role because I am motherless and have a stepfather, just like Annette?”
I couldn’t find any other connection between Annette and me.
In my previous life, I was a daughter of an ordinary family, but Annette was a daughter of a noble family.
In my previous life, I pretended to care about my stepmother, not wanting to hear that she discriminated against me for being a stepdaughter. But Annette had none of that. Despite being a daughter of the Duke’s house, her room was old and cold, and the servants ignored her.
“Even my marriage to the male lead is already decided.”
When male lead is the homewrecker
“I know she doesn’t love him.”
I’ve read the novel below twice already. Girls, I’m highly recommending it to you!
The female lead? Not a good person.
The second male lead? Not a good person.
The male lead? Willingly plays the third party, breaking up the female and second male lead’s relationship despite all the warnings from his friends—so yeah, he’s definitely not a good person either.
Basically, nobody in this novel is simple-minded or without scheming.
The female lead starts off as the male lead’s secretary, but don’t worry—later on, she takes over the company while the male lead steps back to support her. He won’t steal her spotlight, overshadow her, or dull her shine.
I love novels where men are out here snatching wigs, tearing each other down, and going to war just to win the female lead’s affection. And this is exactly that kind of novel. Most of Hai Dai Ran’s works have this dynamic. You’ll see the male characters’ emotions being pushed to the absolute extreme.
There’s even a scene where the second male lead exposes the male lead online for being a homewrecker. The brotherhood immediately gangs up on him, dragging him through the mud. I find it compelling —it completely flips reality on its head, where usually, women are the ones fighting over a man and getting torn apart by the sisterhood.
For me, female leads in the novels I read should only struggle in their careers, not in love. But if the brainless romantics in the story are all men? I have zero complaints.
I’ve pretty much read all of Hai Dai Ran’s novels and even translated all of them—her works are just my thing. I’ll slowly upload everything here. One day, when my website is official, I hope I can invite her to join as one of the star authors.
Here’s the story synopsis:
One-line summary: She is his lifelong obsession, to the point where he was willing to be a third wheel, scorned by society, just to wedge his way into her relationship with her fiancé.
Cold-hearted and indifferent female lead + Scheming and subservient CEO male lead
Intro 1:
“I know she doesn’t love him.”
With blood trickling from his clenched fist, Rong Xiu gazed at the woman before him, his eyes clouded with anguish. Hidden in the wardrobe, he had witnessed Fan Xia – the woman he desperately loved – in an intimate embrace with her fiancé. Yet his heart still yearned for her, defying all reason.
Fan Xia, the elegant and composed assistant, carried something mysterious in her eyes whenever she looked at her fiancé, Wen Lan Sheng. Strange occurrences began to surface – secret meetings with the young Gu Jin Yi, an unexplained withdrawal of 5,000 yuan… Then suddenly, her fiancé’s sister, Wen Jing, violently attacked her.
In this matriarchal society, Rong Xiu had risen to become the chairman of a powerful healthcare conglomerate, breaking through gender prejudices. But for the first time, he willingly stepped into the shadows as the other man, disregarding his friends’ warnings to become her secret lover.
Because he had discovered the truth – Fan Xia wasn’t the pure angel everyone believed her to be. And perhaps, he was the only one capable of helping her execute her mysterious plan…
Intro 2:
Rong Xiu’s biggest regret in life was missing out on Fan Xia.
He secretly loved Fan Xia for 7 years.
Watched her go public with her boyfriend.
Watched her kiss her boyfriend at their wedding.
Until that man blissfully nestled in Fan Xia’s arms, obtaining everything he could only dream of.
The crazy jealousy stripped away his hidden secret love, layer by layer, burning like wildfire.
Fan Xia, how can I have you!
【Reading and Trigger Warning Guide】
1. Female dominant, male submissive, male pregnancy
2. Male lead schemes his way to the top, male competition
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