Spoiler The Female Lead Has No Cheats

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  1. adyaa

    adyaa Well-Known Member

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    As the original heroine in the novel, Lin Yueqi’s life was made a complete mess by the traitorous female side leads: her top millionaire husband wanted to divorce her, her daughter became a villain, and the internet users wanted her to leave the entertainment industry.

    Female side lead #1 brought her own magnificent and beautiful traitorous persona. Female side lead #2 transmigrated over and became the villain’s mother.

    Female side lead #3 was even more extreme… In the end, her career and family were ruined and she died from excess of anger.

    Lin Yueqi transmigrated to before the nightmares began, but she only had her memory up to when she was 17! She was dumbstruck. As an unfavorable heroine, Lin Yueqi found it more important to survive. She decided to give up her daughter and her top millionaire husband and retreat to being a stranger, staying far away from the goldfinger female side leads!

    She spread rumors of her loveless marriage with her husband and how she picked up a child in order to swindle herself into a marriage. She decided to squander her luck with strangers and believed that she could almost successfully retreat from the heroine position when the negative news about her on the internet were cleared!

    Her husband, Lu Ting, came looking for her with their daughter, saying sternly, “Madame Lu, we have a loveless marriage? That’s not what you were saying when we were in bed.”

    Her daughter pursed her lips and sobbed, patting her stomach with her chubby hands. “Mummy, you said that you picked me up! This bun’s heart is aching!”

    Lu Yueqi glanced at the little girl who hugged her stomach while crying, causing her heart to ache as well.


    Heh. How could she have given birth to such… a cunning little girl?! She must’ve picked her up! She refused to be the stepmother!


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    就我没有金手指

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    88 chapters+ extras (Completed)

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    Chinese

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    Xuāncǎo Yāohuā
    萱草妖花

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    Does anyone have spoilers for this novel ?
     
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  2. scriptor

    scriptor 『Sigilmaster』 『Immortal Sage』

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    This was a super good novel IMO, MC read like a real person. It's very complex so I'll try to break out the timelines as much as I can from what I MTL-ed:

    Story 0: Original doting love story between MC and ML (FL and ML) with a happy and fluffy family life.
    Story 1: Story 0 is derailed by transmigrators ruining the entire family. MC is forced to suicide (her mental pressure and despair is extremely real and sad). Her daughter becomes a villainess who is jailed and fades in obscurity. ML gets into an accident at some point and becomes known as the richest guy in the world but has nothing except for money (one of the transmigrators caused him to have an accident so he's disfigured and disabled too).
    Story 2: This is the current timeline, where MC is reborn and mentally 17 y/o with all her 17 y/o memories. It's revealed later that this is a result of the world trying to fight back against the transmigrators disrupting everything.

    So some details about the characters; gonna use transmigrators/system users interchangeably:

    MC (FL): Omg she works so hard and is so inspirational. I don't like entertainment circle novels but she really won me over because she's really an artist at what she does in the true sense and never takes the easy way out. You really can see why she's the FL, which makes it extremely sad when we get snapshots of how she got pressured to death in Story 1. There was a lot of cyberbullying and just plain overall bullying by fans instigated by the transmigrators and blown up by the golden finger systems.

    ML (ML): You'd think he'd be hateful, but he really isn't. He's actually just as sad as FL. He's a classic case of 'straight male disease' and extremely terrible at romance but he loves MC so much that he tries very hard. He loves her even in Story 1 timeline and it's only because the system users pulled some palace drama sh*t that he misunderstood her. In fact, one of the transmigrators who crushed on him crippled him for this reason when she found it he only liked her system-cooked food because eating that food made him remember MC. He regularly visited MC's grave in Story 1 and regretted that he wasn't a better husband and father. He never remarried.

    MC & ML's Daughter: A cute, chubby kid who loves her mom and dad. She's really not villainess material but the transmigrators' actions blackened her just like they did to MC. Her childhood twisted her: MC was under extreme pressure and mentally broke down and beat her once, after which ML divorced MC to protect the daughter. MC committed suicide, it was kinda the last straw. The daughter remembers telling her mom that she hated her once (one of the straws breaking MC) and regrets it. She realizes slowly what happened to her mom as she grows up (mainly that MC didn't want to beat her, it was the mental breakdown, and that MC loved her). Daughter almost kills (or does kill) someone else for talking smack about her mom and that's why she got sent to jail. She visits MC's grave regularly and wishes her mom could be happy and return to her happy years (at age 17).

    ...Also, not all system users/transmigrators are evil. I liked that.

    System User 1: Think her name is Qin Xue? She's got some kind of beauty system and has envy issues.

    System User 2: Jiang Mucheng (think this is her name). Has a system/golden finger that lets her turn what she writes into reality. Her past is as sad as MC's and it's perhaps fitting that she's the one system user who redeems herself. She's a scriptwriter who had her writing stolen by a douchebag and tries to get even using the system (it let her steal others' writing like hers was stolen). She's not exactly innocent but after a fateful conversation with MC, she regrets what she did and admits she stole other people's writing (the system punished her by turning her into an idiot -- this is later resolved at the end). Her attached system is also the least 'evil' compared to the others lol. Because of her actions afterwards, her 'revenge' system turned into some good luck or happiness system. :blobxd:

    System User 3: ...the one with the cooking system. She was the child of the head cook at ML's old home and always crushed on ML. ML never looked at her but this girl....:notlikeblob: Let's just say she deserves what's coming.

    System 4: Some weird money-spending/beauty/career system. There was a manager in ML's company who committed financial fraud and ousted, leaving a wife and daughter. The wife gets the system and tries to take revenge, ignoring the fact that her husband was really in the wrong. She even ends up selling her daughter to an entertainment circle boss due to debt.

    System 5: The all-powerful female lead counterattack system, attached to the daughter of the lady who had System 4. She faces off against MC & ML's daughter in the extras. Also not a good person, though she's pitiable at first -- she murders her own mother in an attempt to attack MC & ML's daughter. :blobsleepless:

    ......

    I'll admit my favorite character is probably Jiang Mucheng, though all the characters are wonderfully written. She gets a happy ending btw, she ends up marrying ML's good friend/bro Li Xin. Also the poor system becoming 'Xiao Hei' (little black) and even her pet dog LOL.
     
  3. adyaa

    adyaa Well-Known Member

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    Thank you so much for the spoiler ! a few chapters made me question the morality of a lot of system stories where the FL is called OP but her moral balance is way off and it shocked me how reading from a certain persons perspective makes us so partial !
     
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    adyaa Well-Known Member

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    Also did the ML know the past ? I didn’t get the let in the prologue ? Like did she just run off ?
     
  5. scriptor

    scriptor 『Sigilmaster』 『Immortal Sage』

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    ML doesn't know. But later on, I think ML dreamed of the past. Her daughter definitely did, as there're a few chapters in which she wakes up crying and wants to see or talk to MC. And in the extras, it's revealed that her daughter (now grown up) wrote down notes of what she dreamed of because she wants to fight back against some of the later system users.
     
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    After MC defeats the first system..the beauty one.. MC gets cursed/punished as the last hideen chest of the beauty system by quin xue that she will gain weight till she's 160pounds(?).... so mc ran away from everyone leaving a note that she will be back in a year.. that's when she says that the husband is fake and daughter is someone she picked up..
     
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    shouahang58 Empress of Being Super Lazy ↜(۳`∇´)۳

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    spoilers on fluffy times please!
     
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    what happend to the goldenfinger transmigrator?
    and more spoilers about the ML's regret in the story1
     
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    What ever happened to the cooking bitch
     
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    LockedPuppet From the void, the circus horns~

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    So I've seen the word 'system' used a lot in these forums.
    I've never seen it defined outright, but what I'm getting is that a 'system' is basically reincarnation but with cheats, right?

    Does the MC have a system, or is it just reincarnation with her memories?

    This definitely looks interesting. From what I get so far it's basically a deconstruction "system" plots by showing just how destructive it can be to a bystander's life, I like that.
     
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    A system varies depends on what type of novel its in. Generally, its kind of like an A.I. system that guides the user, and gives them tasks/rewards based on their performance. Generally, a system is not physical, only liked mentally with the user, though it can interact with the world just fine. A system generally is in the background, guiding/helping the user, though some systems will do certain tasks if the user asks/ "pays" for it. A system generally uses points, and the user can spend points to purchase various things, ranging from items to abilities. A system generally has a goal it wants its user to accomplish, ranging from being the best actor to regaining parts of a scattered soul.
     
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    LockedPuppet From the void, the circus horns~

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    Oh, I get it, so it's essentially as though that person were playing a visual novel/video game within the real world itself, plus all the perks that would include, right? Thank you for the explanation!

    Is there ever any given explanation as to why the other FLs managed to find their systems? Also, I'm a bit confused on the MC's situation, is she part of a system or is it just reincarnation but with memories up to age 17?
     
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    Ooh this is seems really good! Thank you for the spoilers and I hope someone translates it or posts more spoiler :D
     
  14. scriptor

    scriptor 『Sigilmaster』 『Immortal Sage』

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    Long story short, System 5 user's murder of her mother is revealed and she's put in jail for what she did. There's a lot going on in the background as MC's daughter (now grown up), the daughter's ML (also grown up; he's a screenwriter/director), Jiang Mufeng, and Xiao Hei try to fight against System 5.

    ML was the typical case of a semi-absent husband getting hoodwinked by palace drama stuff cooked up (ha) by the system users. He was super busy with work and cleaning up after all the things the system users framed MC with, so he never really caught on that MC was framed, if that makes sense. Again, if it were a palace drama, the system users were like concubines throwing dirt on the empress lol, it was seriously messy. Since ML didn't know (workaholic) and fell for their tricks, he and MC's relationship just got more and more strained until he decided they had to separate when MC (who was pretty much driven insane by despair at everything the system users did) broke down and beat their daughter.

    After MC died, he and the daughter were left alone. Their family fragmented even more afterwards. ML began to realize how much he loved MC and kept thinking 'what if' -- if he was a better husband, better father, and so on. He started realizing the pressure MC was under and everything, you see, and blamed himself for not being good enough to solve these things.

    ML's disfigurement and stuff will be explained in response below, because it's related to the cooking b*tch lol.

    In Story 1: Cooking b*tch (this is a great name for System User 3 lol, thank you) has always had a one-sided crush on ML, who barely knows she exists. She was one of the people who forced MC to death. Her system lets her drug cater to each person's taste even if she only has a soggy boot to 'cook.' It's that broken. After MC died, she thought she could finally snatch ML by her cooking since ML was coming by often for food. Then she learned that ML only came by because the food she made (tailored by the system) gave ML memories of MC. Cooking b*tch got in a snit and purposefully cooked ML a dish that made him drunk (her system food can make someone drunk even though the food doesn't have alcohol...:blobsleepless:), so ML unknowingly had a case of drunk driving and got in a car accident. That accident made ML disabled and disfigured.

    In Story 2 (current): Cooking b*tch walks her old path of fame by becoming a famous cooking live streamer. She does a lot of stuff to try and hook ML, diss MC, and so on but doesn't succeed well this time around -- MC's 17 y/o self was at her brightest time so she has little to no negative emotions lol, plus she has this theory that 'positive energy' can ward off the system users (which is mostly true and causes punishments for the system users, since the systems like to feed from MC's negative emotions). The cooking system punishes cooking b*tch by making her food taste like sh*t for a period of time and/or causing some of her rabid fans to 'wake up' from the euphoric state caused by her cooking. For example, she uses the system to make a regular soup look like God made it. Under punishment, the fan would 'wake up' and realize that it was just a soup -- and not even a particularly appetizing looking soup, wtf were they on when they supported cooking b*tch. (later on, we learn cooking b*tch's character has always been this sh*tty -- she doesn't respect the cooking profession. The system is no excuse to be a negligent chef :blob_thor:)

    MC, ML, and cooking b*tch go on this survival documentary cooking show about tracking elephants in Africa. Cooking b*tch tries to use this to showcase her 'cooking' prowess, but MC and ML's pink fluffy flirting/relationship progression causes her to have increasingly long periods of punishment. :blobxd: MC has an assist this time because Jiang Mufeng (still in idiot stage), foolishly wrote a 'rule' that ML would be immune to cooking b*tch's system (MC was trying to get her to write that MC would be immune lol, but it turns out that this is a good result too). ML gets increasingly nauseated by cooking b*tch's irresponsible cooking and tells MC they better eat their own things, even though MC is okay with enjoying the system food. :blobrofl:

    Cooking b*tch trips MC at a crucial point in the show later on, nearly causing MC to be trampled by a raging elephant. The cowardly cooking b*tch happened to run straight into poachers and got beaten half to death by them because she cooked for them under punishment mode (LOL). Also Jiang Mufeng was a godly assist again and wrote a line about helping the elephants and/or those harming MC getting what they deserve (something like that, I can't remember exactly lol).

    Anyway, cooking b*tch's popularity gets lower and lower. She decides to marry a famous film emperor guy she hooked on the side with her cooking while she can. However, her punishments keep triggering and eventually it affects even her cooking for this guy. They have a domestic and divorce on extremely bad terms. Finally she receives an ultimate punishment (really a curse, because the system is going to die): everything she eats will taste like sh*t. In the end, cooking b*tch lives miserably in a squalid apartment, thin as a stick because she can't stomach eating food.
     
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    A few points

    MC's daughter starts having nightmares of the previous lives. This, and MC having nightmares also convinces ML about there being supernatural entities in the world. After MC and ML deal with the problems, the daughters nighmares become sweet dreams instead, dreaming of their future.

    Each system has a weakness that MC unintentionally exploits. When these weakeneses are exploited, they reverse its effect and the host suffers a penalty

    The first system, the beauty system: Feeds off of MC’s negative emotions. So when MC feels positive emotions, it gets a backlash and the effects of it start reversing. In the end, it binds to MC, but MC refuses to give it any negative emotions so it starves. It tries to unbind, but MC doesn't let it

    The second system, the vengeance system: The most interesting of the system. Was in a relationship with system 4, the evil mother system in law system. After its host, Jiang Mucheng, refuses to go down the dark path, the punishment for it is that the host becomes stupid. JM uses the system to counteract the other systems. She writes "ML is immune to the cooking system" under the influence of MC, and "all those who bully MC should be punished". This last wish causes it to fight with its ex, the evil mother in law system, because it can't disobey its host. When MC and ML marry, it can't fulfill its task anymore, so it has to unbind from JM, causing her to become normal again. While the system was being destroyed, its emergency reboot kicked in and it returned to its original state, a koi system. It was always a koi system, but the evil mother system in law system injected it with a virus that corrupted it into a vengeance system. Though, since it unbinded with JM, it binded with a stray dog to survive. JM found this dog, and both were surprised that they can still communicate.

    The third system, the cooking system: This system doesn't have as developed intelligence yet. It's weakness is whenever MC and ML are in a lovey-dovey situation, it gets a backlash. The punishments is that all the food its host cooks become like shit, and even the memory of good food is gone. In the end, it gets destroyed due to MC and ML's love's backlash being too strong.

    The fourth system, the evil mother in law system: Ex of the vengence/koi system. Its weakness is MC, ML and the daughter feeling like a happy family. Each time they feel like a happy family, it deducts affection between its host and her daughter, so the daughter starts hating the host. And its effect are also reversed. In the end, as a last resort, it gave its host a poisoned hair pin to kill MC, because this hairpin is very expensive, and the system redeemed all its points to get it for its host. In the end, it didn't work, and it got destroyed.

    This is as far as i've read, so i haven't seen much of the fifth system yet
     
  16. Needyneedle

    Needyneedle Crimson's Melissa and the Blackjack of Chaos.

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    Kitty Jiu is currently translating this novel. He/she has a Patreon too if you have an account there.
     
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    LockedPuppet From the void, the circus horns~

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    Hey so why are so many of the systems centered around making the MC miserable? What could you even do to get so many systems after your hide?
     
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    Needyneedle Crimson's Melissa and the Blackjack of Chaos.

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    I just started reading the translation but I, unfortunately, can only access minimal chapters on Patreon, So I'm currently walking on the destructive path of MTL. Please excuse any errors. The original text was likely lost due to MTL. Hopefully, this sort of answers your question. According to what I found:

    MC's world is called "Sweetheart Baby: My Richest Husband". She, her husband Lu Ting, and her daughter are the originals in this romance novel. For some reason, several scientists from whatever Planet (MTL called it "Putian") developed a system called [female counterattack] in order to violate the laws of the universe. MC's world or novel rather was unfortunately chosen to be the test subject for said system. The scientists did not expect that the [Female Counterattack] system developed its own mental consciousness and is so powerful that it devours other golden finger systems in the universe. The system's weakness is it gets hungry. It needs the negative energy of the original characters to make themselves stronger. The MTL version provided more details, but I couldn't take it anymore. I don't want to spread misinformation so I will wait for the good translation and I will correct this.
     
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    LockedPuppet From the void, the circus horns~

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    I see, thank you so much!

    One thing I just want to get clarified, is the MC part of a system or is it just reincarnation+memories?
     
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    Needyneedle Crimson's Melissa and the Blackjack of Chaos.

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    I apologize in advance because I'm not sure if I could explain it clearly. Anyway, (relying on MTL, fml) I guess there's an organization called, Space-Time Administration that monitors the universe, and MC's world is part of it since her world is equivalent to another earth. After the original characters were gone, the [Female Matching Counterattack] system became the most powerful system in the universe. It can help any "passerby" in the universe to become the most dazzling existence in the world. The Space-Time Administration thought such a system should not exist, so they made Lin Yequi go back to the past. Unfortunately, the [Female Counterattack] system devoured all the golden finger systems in the universe,so the Space and Time Administration couldn't provide Lin Yueqi any system except allowing her to be reborn. They hope that she, as the original character due to her "heroine" aura, can defeat the [Female Counterattack] system.
     
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