Title: Female Protagonist and Second Male Lead HE / 女主都和男二HE Raw: http://m.txt101.com/id/8221.html Why I liked this: completely unique and one-of-a-kind premise in this trope. Seriously. It's by the same author that made "The Girl Who Cured the Crazy BOSS is Majestic and Mighty" (I was MTL-ing that, finished, and checked out the author's works).All the stories is also fluff, the heroine and their second male lead doesn't really have a big drama and seemed to just 'click' with each other right away. Story: female protag chose second male over the supposed male protag because all of the male protag settings are scumbag a-holes. Except one, all the female protag are transmigrator that got into a dog blood story with their original role setting being the holy mother white lotus type. Every story has the original male protag scum being the same soul, but every heroine and their respective partners are different souls and people. The main story are told from the heroine perspectives. Main male protag soul is a world-hopper who went around absorbing main character luck (from the heroine) so became invincible, and in every story, the main soul (who’d experienced countless world) would awaken when the world’s plot and heroine’s feelings changed. Obviously, he became the villain trying to break CP ship. Glossary: C! = changed O! = original (the original female protagonists (holy mother white lotus, supplement for male scum)) R! = reincarnated M! = main, specifically for male scum’s main soul Spoiler: Summary Summary: Spoiler: First Story Emperor x Empress (GTL said “emperor pampered dog x queen salted fish but that’s some slang I don’t get) The story goes: Female protag Liao Zingyan, she’s lazy, only care about good food, good live, alike Hua Xi Wan from Eight Treasure Trosseau. Original setting paired her with a commoner who led rebellion toward the tyrant king, Sima Jiao. C!Zingyan instead entered Sima Jiao’s harem (the O! Setting has her refusing this and ran away with the male protag), got Sima Jiao’s interest, and got along with him. In the middle, M!male scum has married a villainess, kidnapped C!Zingyan thinking she’s suffering but really want to conspire and make her love him again. His plan was foiled and later he’s dead by Sima Jiao’s hand. C!Zingyan and Sima Jiao lived ‘till old age. When death do them part, C!Zingyan got back to the modern times and met with R!Sima Jiao, named Wei Jiao. Spoiler: Second story assassin x capable housewife The story goes: O!female protag is Chu Li, C!female protag is Tang Li. Chu Li looked similar to the male scum’s first love, so she got taken in, loved, then found out she’s a substitute. The first love has also sacrificed herself for the male scum and went into a coma for five years. Tang Li has bailed out male scum’s residence earlier on, found the second male lead, number one assassin named Xu Nu. Tang Li had read this world’s plot before and loved Xu Nu, so she took reaaalllyyy goooooood care of injured Xu Nu. The plot went like Assassin Farmer (just marry, farming, living together harmoniously) ‘till M!male scum came to make trouble (remember, he needed heroine’s love to be a peerless, unobstructed, winner in life) and shit ended up with Tang Li dying at M!male scum’s hand. Tang Li got transmigrated again, this time to male scum’s first love, supposedly villainess in the original plot, who’s (dumdumdumdum) actually twin sister with O!heroine. Tang Li doesn’t really care, she just search for Xu Nu. Found him, some angst, but got together again at last. And they conspired with other people to kill male scum before living happily ever after. Spoiler: Third story Invincible Monsterman x Noble White Dragon The story goes:xianxia setting. O!heroine was the last living member of a dragon clan, can turn into dragon and shit. Supposedly fight with bells and silk with temperament like a fairy. The male scum is her master. C!heroine, named Bai Yan had height phobia, Zoro’s sense of direction, so she can’t find her supposed master’s mountain nor can she fly as a dragon to speed up. Travel on foot in her journey, ended up circling the whole area for, idk, but it’s very long. OTW met with her match, Lu Linsheng, originally a man with tumor growing on his face and deformed lips. He gave shelter and food to Bai Yan, Bai Yan gave him a golden pearl that started Lu Linsheng’s obsession. Anw shit happened to poor Lu Linsheng, he got into jail, the city got attacked by demon (at this point Bai Yan had gone lost somewhere else), got abandoned in jail, his corpse got eaten by a rat, who then retrieved his human’s consciousness and obsession... long story short, mouse dead, eat by crow, crow retrieve consciousness, found Bai Yan who’s already a refiner disciple (Hephaestus-style, his master is a burly man and his senior-brothers are all burly man) wielding a LARGE sledgehammer with vulgar mouth at an entirely different sect. M!male scum found Bai Yan also, rejected by her, found the crow (low-level demon at this point), threw him to a demon’s pit. Crow got eaten, his obsession won and eat the eater, repeated cycle ‘till Lu Linsheng just a bunch of darkness silk that eat every single living being, demon, mortal, immortals, gods alike. The demon pit opened and he managed to found Bai yan again and stick with her, listened to everything she says. So this arc is really long.M!male scum learned one-two things from previous worlds and got smarter. It’s a xianxia with epic setting so it got considerable exciting worldbuilding. But overall, the ending is, M!male scum got locked up while Bai Yan and Lu Linsheng travel the world to find demons for Lu Linsheng to eat. Happy end, really. Funny thing to notice is the O!heroine should be a ‘flower on a cliff’ type with elegance, femininity aura, but our C!heroine Bai Yan is just an explosive fiery girl wielding a large hammer around and cursing like a sailor. Behind her, Lu Linsheng will always, always goes “everything you said is right, awesome, and magnificent”. Bai Yan got to know Lu Linsheng’s origin too and accepted him for all that he is, especially, because he is the man that helped her out of the wood after she got lost. She’s the purest. Spoiler: Fourth Story Transmigrated Idol x His Transmigrated Diehard Fan The story goes: bow down first to our queen, Jiang Yuchao. She got into discarded-fiancee plot setting, played green-tea bitch role exceptionally well for the people malicious to her, and her pair, Shaoyan, is just so goddamned cute. Shaoyan is an idol, transmigrated to ancient times and dedicated this second life for raising dogs. Seriously. He built his estate like some kind of savanna or something full of dogs. He brought home abandoned dogs from the roadside, accepted from people, and those dogs aren’t exquisite breed, just your normal local ones each area got sometimes. When they met Jiang Yuchao immediately goes “OMG MY IDOLLLLLLLLL” (the male’s faces are the same). They talked together and their attendants all like “they have feelings for each other!!!”. Long (funny) story short, they got married for convenience. Then Idol is attracted to his diehard fan but can’t make a move, don’t want to make a move, both satisfied with the current condition. Then he got sick. Then he died. Culprit is M!male scum ofc. He woke up late in this world but didn’t listen to his all-seeing system and just went and did this stupid thing. Jiang Yuchao straight-up kidnap M!male scum through her amazing acting, conspiracy ability and castrated him before killing him. Then she acknowledged her sin to the emperor and suicide. Both of them went back to modern world, found each other, married each other (this time with love as a basis). And also raise a dog together. Spoiler: Fifth Story Hooligan Girl x Trap CEO The story goes: Modern setting! Breath of fresh air. Our C!heroine don’t know jack shit about the original plot and even decided to change her name to her original name, Guo Rong. The plot is “CEO’S Wife Running Away with The Ball!” so basically heroine got ONS with CEO, ran away, got pregnant, raise the child alone. Guo Rong, raised her child (transmigrated right after the body gave birth) to be an online game master (the son is a genius, ofc). Their child-parent interaction is really funny. They met with the trap CEO who’s crossdressing as a girl and never spoke. Then Guo Rong found out the beautiful sister is a man when he’s peeing on the girl’s toilet (cos he got shooed out from the man’s and his cubicle has a broken lock). They talked it out calmly. Trap CEO liked the son and speedily adopted him. M!male scum back with low luck, so everything he did just failed and he ended up killed by a cannon fodder. Guo Rong and trap CEO married to deal with child’s custody case that ended abruptly cos the male scum died and just continued be married. They’re a happy family of three. Oh, and, Wei Jiao also C!Zingyan made a cameo. Apparently Wei company is the M!male scum rising rival company, the boss above our Trap CEO (Trap CEO’s company is game company, smaller scale). M!male scum recognized Wei Jiao’s face as Sima Jiao and made a really really bad move that made him immediately walking on thin eggshells, but he doesn’t give a sht ‘cos he think everyone is beneath him. Yeah, scum. Spoiler: Sixth Story Princess x Savage Tribe Chief The story goes: not transmigrated heroine! She’s stuck in a time loop of life suffering in autopilot brought by the male scum. In this new plotline, she gains control of herself and immediately not repeat everything again. This one hardly had any dealings with the male scum, seriously. She just marry the savage tribe chief, claimed to be son of Wolf God, who’d also loved her in all of her previous time loops. They led a happy life and bring prosperity to their tribe and country. The male scum is a king of other country with ambition to unite the continent, but his luck ran out so he got trouble. It took him ten fucking years of defeat (he want to unite the continent first before collecting heroine’s luck) before finally running to trouble heroine (penniless, powerless). Heroine recognized him right away (and she already got a big kid), told people to catch him, then killed him cruelly Spoiler tied his limbs to five horses that then prompted to run into five different direction . Another fking queen, but she’s almost as gentle as Tang Li. Spoiler: Seventh Story Ghost x School Master The story goes: a literal ghost in-world transmigrated into the body of a dead girl, the heroine, who’s beaten to death by her father. Her mother remarried a rich man and that’s how she met with the school master. This arc was a tame and cute until M!male scum showed up with “everything already failed anyway might as well kill heroine if I failed this one too to vent anger”. The first plan failed; he got ass-kicked hard by the ruthless cruel ghost heroine. After that, M!male scum got substituted by O!male scum whose personality is no better than the M!, just added with immaturity = recipe for disaster. He planned to rape C!heroine. Brought seven people with him. Too bad the school was where ghost heroine haunted before so the whole school ground turn into a nightmare land where every perpeator died painfully by other ghosts in true horror gore fashion (she doesn’t eat people even as a ghost, she liked potato chips better). School Master ran in too, protected by ghost heroine, and with the power of love they managed to escape. Ghost heroine wasn’t able to before cos she’s a ghost, got resentment, but School Master’s love washed it white and they got out the nightmare land. Spoiler: Last Story Not-really-redemption for M!male scum. He apparently went into the very first world where he uncovered the secret of ‘luck’, but now, he’s not the hero. He’s the HEROINE. You’re fking right, HE BECAME TRNSMIGRATED HEROINE. Moreover, he’s PREGANANANT, Apparently he didn’t like the feeling of being pregnant. He also think himself (the original one) as a stupid, disgusting scum and can’t figure out for the life of his how women fell for him lmao. The system mocked him gleefully all the while. He got the first feel of miscarriage. Sht happens (including he killing his original self) and he also got the taste of being raped (by his former enemy, no less, whose personality is identical to him). And he got a reflection moment where he remembered how he once done, act, and say the same scumbag shit his rapist said. He managed to unlock the artifact of luck-stealing aaand Transported to another world as a woman again. And the world’s story is not some romance drama dog blood plot anymore: it’s a male-demographic wuxia! He reincarnated into the O!protag's harem women. It’s quite long, but I don’t really care so I skipped. He killed the O!protag in the end. The third world IS ANGST BL HAREM LOLOLLOLOLLOLOLOLOLOL.. still ancient setting. He’s male alright, but his ass has been “”overused”” (his own words) and he got a harem of sadistic male partners. First, he killed the one using whips on him with a simple neck-snap and hid his body under his bed (he woke up in the middle of BDSM session lol). Second, he killed the jealous-rage-rapist type with a dagger and threw his body on the street. Then he met with the remaining five member of O!body harem and killed ‘em all. Fourth world is being a woman again... forgot what happened. Anyway it was at most three-four paragraphs long so yeah. Some time skip happened and a short dialogue with system revealed he’s still cold-blooded, ruthless, ambitious, selfish. Empathy, love, compassion? Nah, man. He still wanted to be the invincible God of the world, but now with a new fresh mindset. He doesn’t think of himself as some God’s Gift for The World; he lost his arrogance. He’s still a bastard for sure, but a more likeable bastard now since he doesn’t bother to pretend nor he feel entitled to anything anymore, unlike his previous incarnation in the heroine’s world. At one point he got into a scifi world and met a mute slave called A’Mo. This A’Mo followed him (was transmigrated to a girl’s body, original plot never mentioned) everywhere despite never getting attention and died in the end. He asked her name, she answered. When he moved world, he was back in this world. System: “Maybe you have regrets?” Even after finishing his mission in this world, he always went back to the slave and let her follow him around. And then at one point, he got a man’s body, system expressed he’s now ‘free’... then he returned to where he met A’Mo for the first time and just bailed her out. So I guess now he got a chance to learn what is love, compassion, empathy. Spoiler: Closing Story It’s not over! The system somehow collected the seven heroine together. Everyone got along really well. they were in something like a game virtual world. First they’re in a zombie world setting. Others were modern people except our Princess Queen, so Guo Rong explained a lot of shits to her. it’s a fun and light-hearted arc where the seven heroine embarked on a journey to defeat Big Green Devil (yeah, the M!male scum) in a video-game setting. Tang Li was always the one cooking for everyone, Bai Yan was the berserker with 100 attack point stats, Guo Rong is the chatty type updating Princess Queen about modern shit, and Ghost Heroine... well, being a silent ghost. At the end, they went RPG mode with their skills chosen by their husbands. Zingyan (first heroine) immediately went: I got a bad feeling about this. The husbands are in another realm, choosing cards, and someone (Princess Queen’s husband, the Savage Tribe Chief, IIRC) teased Sima Jiao about his wife not trusting him. The end result are: Zingyan as tanker, Bai Yan berserker (duh), Tang Li healer, Guo Rong long-range attacker, Ghost Heroine is healer’s protector, Princess Queen and Queen (Jiang Yuchao, fourth heroine who castrated M!male scum) as assists (directly stated as assists, not mage or anything). Big Green Devil’s great technique is summoning mob: A’Mo. Every attack landing onto A’Mo would obtain large damage hit to the attacker. Guo Rong almost died, but Tang Li healed in time. Our heroines won~ they got back to their respective worlds with memory over the game world intact. The husbands remember too, but Sima Jiao pretend he doesn't know anything since Zingyan was angry lol. Spoiler: More details about M!male scum So as in the last arc, he's originally the overbearing, forceful, dominating, control-freak, entitled shit male protagonist some dog blood angst plot romance always have. In the very first world, he obtained a cultivating artifact from his main heroine (in which later, after the long ordeal of having his heroines stolen by the second male lead, he transmigrated into) that revealed the world's secret: each person has 'luck', and 'protagonist' luck is the strongest. With that artifact he managed to absorb luck from his heroine and moved onto another world. It happened that he always use the same dog blood scenario to get his heroine to love him, so the heroine's heaven-defying luck was transferred to him, in price of the heroine's suffering. Since the heroine is also a pure white lotus holy mother type, she's easily tricked, bullied, soft, and weak, so it's easy for him. All of his world follow the same kind of scenario, that's why when the seven heroine he dealt with wasn't actually the pure-weak-dodder flower type, he can't do the right counter-attack. Following the first world (Zingyan and Sima Jiao)'s loss, all of his other world collapses because all of the heroines were falling out of love or because his asshole personality killed them once the heroine acted out of character. But it's not like he, with the consciousness of 'controlling worlds', could be at two place on the same time, so he could only watches as the other world collapses. In every story there's always a moment of his M!soul 'deported' out from his vassal, then this vassal do the dumb thing following his a-hole personality and scumbag mind (case in point, the seventh story with Ghost Heroine). After all of his world collapses and he got transmigrated back to his original world (as his heroine), he got back the artifact (with trials mentioned above), but this time his journey of collecting luck, he always transmigrated into some kind of suffering character instead of the typical scum male protag, sometimes male and sometimes female. His method was exactly like a vicious villain; manipulating, backstabbing, but the suffering side is always 'original bad guy'. Spoiler: About the system The system was originally made by him just to do administrator task, literally. The system couldn't give him a golden finger or open malls or things like that. The system could only track, record, and give data, can actually gave advices that will give M!male scum an advantage over our transmigrated heroine (several of them has a slow romance, even starting out as close friendship (case: Guo Rong and her cross-dressing husband)). But being the arrogant prick he is, the M!male scum didn't listen. The system that started out as data-giver for M!male scum apparently was hacked and became a 'greening system' with goal to 'redeem' the M!male scum. It's kinda hinted that he (the system) was the one letting souls transmigrated into M!male scum heroines. The system stayed with him 'till the end.
Salted fish means that she was rolled and tossed in bed so much she became a salted fish. Since she brew soy sauce cough and became salted and stuff/limp as a fish after bed activities.
Is there a pick up thread for this? If not I’ll make one, I’m gonna do a message to a mtl website to see if they can do it
lmao M!male scum totally turned into a joke I can't So it's kinda a series of short stories connected with M!male scum who is really the real MC of this whole novel, neat and I guess true love is system and A'Mo. I'll wait for translation (once there is one) to complete at least one or two stories/world so I can binge read with more satisfaction