My Gentle Master Is a Yandere Villainess - Chapter 2:

Chapter 2: Qin Chuan: I Want to Be a Female-Oriented Novel’s Male Lead Too!

Qiuqiu ranted for a full ten minutes before finally stopping, reluctantly moving on to the main topic.

“So, that’s basically the situation. You’ve been pulled into a female-oriented novel. To keep you from getting bullied, Blue Star sent me here to deliver your gold finger.”

“There are two types of gold fingers granted by Blue Star. One gives you knowledge of the plot. The other is a System. You get to choose one.”

Only kids make choices. Qin Chuan was already an adult. So he asked, “Can I have both?”

“Absolutely not,” Qiuqiu rejected without hesitation.

Seeing that Qin Chuan stayed silent, Qiuqiu explained on its own, “It’s not that we don’t want to give you both. It’s that we simply can’t. Since it’s the novel world that dragged you in, Blue Star can only sneak in a limited amount of ‘extras’ on your behalf.”

“If we give too much, it’ll consume Blue Star’s own source energy. That cost is too high. Blue Star still needs that energy to protect the rest of its people.”

“So we don’t have a choice. It’s not that Blue Star is abandoning you. We really can’t do more. I hope you understand.”

“No problem. I get it.” Qin Chuan nodded. It was natural to prioritize the group over the individual. Besides, they hadn’t abandoned him—they were still sending a gold finger.

Back then, when he had turned into a child and was about to be eaten by a demonic cultivator, more than a dozen human cultivators had passed by—but none had intervened for various reasons.

That was when he realized a truth: relying on others was meaningless. Only strength of one’s own was reliable. Power was his only background.

“Oh right! That troublesome woman before you had me so dizzy I forgot the most important part.” Qiuqiu smacked its head in frustration, then said, “Since this is a novel world, you can take a look at the novel’s outline before choosing your gold finger.”

In an instant, the screen showed the novel’s cover again, along with a scrollable interface.

Qin Chuan didn’t read the outline immediately. Instead, he asked Qiuqiu something that mattered far more to him.

“Qiuqiu, you said I’m in a lower-dimensional novel world. Then… are the people here real?” His voice trembled slightly, terrified of hearing the answer.

He didn’t dare imagine that his master wasn’t real—that she was just a two-dimensional character. What would he do then? She was the one who had always been in his thoughts. He had fallen for her the moment he first laid eyes on her.

Qiuqiu didn’t leave him hanging. It answered instantly, “Of course they’re real. A low-level novel world is still a world, so its people are also real.”

Hearing that, Qin Chuan finally relaxed. His heart settled down, and he began reading the novel’s outline.

Qiuqiu had just warned him that Blue Star residents were often dragged into novel worlds as cannon fodder. He didn’t want to end up as a stepping stone for the female and protagonists on their twisted road to love and revenge.

Qin Chuan had read a lot of novels back on Blue Star, but never female-oriented ones. Just reading this summary gave him the exact expression of an old man on the subway looking at a weird ad.

It was one of those lowbrow popup ad-style novels that flooded forums.

He already knew the formula: “In her past life, she XXX. After rebirth, she XXX. Now they all regret it.”

Qin Chuan took a deep breath, bracing himself for cringe, and began flipping through the outline.

After reading it, he realized it matched what he’d expected.

The female lead was named Gu Xiran, the legitimate daughter of the Gu clan’s patriarch—a cultivation aristocrat. In her previous life, she was a total simp, obsessed with fawning over her master and senior brothers. But those same master and senior brothers only liked the green tea, manipulative villainess—her half-sister Gu Xiwan.

Oh, and her fiancé also preferred the green tea villainess. In the end, he broke off the engagement, her family was destroyed, her cultivation crippled, and she ended up begging on the streets, dying pitifully in a snowstorm.

After reading that, Qin Chuan could only say she deserved it. The Gu clan must have been cursed to have birthed such a daughter.

You’re the legitimate daughter of a prestigious cultivation family. While the Gu clan wasn’t on par with the Tranquil Void Sect, it was still one of the top powers in the Heavenly Mystic Continent, dominating an entire province.

Your father was the patriarch and spoiled you. Your talent was also exceptional. You could’ve been a true favored daughter of heaven. But instead, you chose to be a simp, didn’t cultivate seriously, and ended up like that. Who else should die, if not you?

Qin Chuan already felt like he’d taken psychic damage, but he forced himself to keep reading.

After Gu Xiran was reborn, she decided not to simp for her old master, senior brothers, or fiancé anymore. You’d think she’d devote herself to cultivation and get revenge on her enemies, right?

Qin Chuan could only sneer, “Heh, if only it were that simple.”

Instead, Gu Xiran chose to worship a more powerful sect master. Yeah, she just switched to licking another, stronger master and senior brothers.

And this time, they actually responded to her. She became the ‘group favorite.’ Then, through a series of coincidences, she rescued a flood dragon—the novel’s protagonist, Cang Wu.

Anyway, with her new master, new senior brothers, and Cang Wu backing her, she started slapping her former enemies left and right. Add in her and Cang Wu’s endless will-they-won’t-they drama and a horde of simps, the novel stretched over two thousand chapters with mindless romantic entanglements.

In the end, the protagonist and female lead killed the final boss and lived happily ever after, while the simps cried and gave them their blessings.

After finishing the outline, Qin Chuan understood his connection to the leads—he and the female lead were in the same sect, the Tranquil Void Sect.

Although the outline didn’t mention the fate of the Tranquil Void Sect, based on how the protagonist and female lead acted like unhinged lunatics in love, it was safe to assume that the sect was doomed.

As a disciple of Tranquil Void Sect, he’d likely be used as cannon fodder by those two lunatics without even knowing it.

“Looks like I need to take Master and get far away from those two maniacs,” Qin Chuan murmured to himself, deep in thought. Qiuqiu didn’t interrupt him.

But a moment later, Qin Chuan dismissed the idea. He knew clearly that running away wasn’t the solution—killing the male and female leads was the only right path.

So he asked Qiuqiu, “Can I just eliminate the leads directly?”

“You can… but right now, you’re not strong enough,” Qiuqiu replied.

“The female lead’s a weakling. The protagonist’s an idiot who only thinks about love. And I still can’t beat them?” Qin Chuan frowned, voicing his doubts.

“This is a female-oriented novel,” Qiuqiu explained. “The female lead is protected by massive heavenly luck. If you try to kill her, the Heavenly Dao will keep sending people to save her.”

“What about the protagonist?” Qin Chuan asked again.

“Well… in female novels, the protagonist shows up as an invincible powerhouse. It’s not like in male novels where the protagonist cultivates for thousands of chapters, climbs the ranks, and becomes unbeatable near the end.”

“Right now, if the protagonist breathes on you, you’ll die,” Qiuqiu added.

Qin Chuan froze. He honestly hadn’t known that the protagonist in female novels appeared with maxed-out power, without even needing to work for it.

He had spent over ten years cultivating, risking death multiple times in dangerous secret realms, and had only just reached Core Formation.

Comparing that to the protagonist made his blood boil.

What the hell.

He wanted to be the protagonist in a female-oriented novel too!