A Guide for Background Characters to Survive in a Manga - Chapter 28

The fake heiress was sent back to the slums. Her biological father was addicted to alcohol, her biological mother was addicted to gambling, and her biological younger brother dropped out of school at a young age due to an obsession with gaming.Sang Ning brought her whole messed-up family onto a variety show. The real heiress's family showcased a tear-jerking, heartwarming picture, while her family was staging daily dramatic soap operas.On the day before the variety show recording, Sang Ning's biological mom openly flirted with a young male idol. Her younger brother mocked their biological father for being old and unattractive, claiming he deserved to be abandoned. In a fit of rage, her father smashed his brother’s headphones.Brother: “Damn it, I spent a whole month collecting trash to afford these!”And thus, the whole family ended up fighting.When the show officially started recording, Sang Ning's father took the top male star’s father to a villager’s house to freeload some alcohol, drinking to intoxication. Sang Ning's mother dragged a popular idol’s grandmother to a mahjong table, losing even her underwear. Sang Ning's brother pointed at her nose and cursed, “I’d rather jump off a cliff than keep studying!”Later, at Sang Ning’s wedding to a business mogul, the sharp-eyed reporters noticed something unusual about the Sang Family members.Mr. Sang had become an intangible cultural heritage master in woodworking industry.Mrs. Sang had won the championship in the latest Chef Showdown.Wasn’t Sang Ning’s younger brother this year’s provincial science champion?When asked about the secret to their turnaround, the Sang Family all looked simultaneously at the radiant bride on stage, their hearts filled with mixed emotions...Perhaps the only thing standing between failure and success is having a crazy genius like Sang Ning.[1v1 exclusive romance + quirky characters + brainless, overpowered story]

She was stupidly in love with him. Because of him, she became rude and unreasonable, overbearing, jealous, insane. But he did not spare a glance to her. Married for two years, he didn’t favor her once, letting her become the laughing stock of the whole world. Eventually, she ended up in an affair, leading to her tragic death.

When her eyes opened again, it was a different person.

Since it’s an empress, then we absolutely must be virtuous, generous, correct the previous jealousy defect.

Thus begins the replacement empress’ harem life.

Taking the initiative to help the emperor look for beauties, sending them to serve in the bedroom, teaching the imperial concubines how to primp themselves to win the emperor’s favor, and even using the phoenix seal as a reward. Whoever can satisfy the emperor on the dragon bed, will have the opportunity to take the phoenix seal and sit on the phoenix seat, to experience the feeling of being the empress. Being this virtuous can really be called impeccable.

She was this virtuous, the emperor ought to be pleased in every aspect!

Hadn’t expected the emperor wouldn’t know good from bad. Not only reprimanded her, but also contradicted her everywhere. The beauties she’d sent were actually all driven away.

Since he didn’t like the beauties, apparently there’s a special interest. In that case, send over a group of beautiful men. Can top, can bottom, every option is there.

In the end, they were also driven away.

Thus the empress personally arrived to battle at the emperor’s bedroom-

“Your Majesty, do you have an unmentionable illness down there? If so, rest assured and tell me. I’ll let some people treat it in secret.” Take a look at her virtue, she could move herself to tears.

“Unmentionable illness?” The emperor’s sword-like eyebrows raised, the eyes suddenly looked dangerous. Approaching her slowly, unexpectedly ordered: “Tonight, the empress will serve me.”

“What?” Then, Mo Qiqi with lightning speed jabbed the hornet’s nest.

“Ah!” A miserable scream.

Mo Qiqi worriedly looked at the emperor to inquire: “Your Majesty. Are you alright!”

The emperor spoke with a pained expression: “Call the court physician!”

“You did have an unmentionable illness!”

- Description from Novelupdates

In the world of cultivation, countless tales follow righteous protagonists, fated heroes blessed by destiny, or those chosen by heaven to walk the path of immortality.But what of those who stand in their way?What of the villains? The so-called obstacles to the hero’s journey—do they not bleed, dream, and struggle as well?Xiao Ning was never meant to succeed.From the very beginning, the Grand Dao wove him as a stepping stone—a necessary sacrifice to elevate another. His path, like that of all designated ‘villains,’ was doomed to failure by design.But what happens when that design is defied?After death, Xiao Ning awakens—not in the cycle of reincarnation, but in the cold silence beyond it. There, he is offered the Eternal Paradox Codex—a forbidden artifact containing the hidden truths of the Grand Dao System itself.Rules. Loopholes. Vulnerabilities.Knowledge not meant for those like him.With this power, Xiao Ning is granted a single, impossible choice: accept oblivion, or step outside the Grand Dao entirely—to abandon fate, sever karma, and cultivate a path unbound by heaven or law.It is Xiao Ning’s journey, from ashes to something beyond comprehension.Not to become an Immortal among men.But something even the heavens dare not bind.If fate is a chain…Then let him forge his own path in the void beyond.Welcome to this humble tale.The cultivation world is vast and unkind.Let us begin again—on our terms.

She, has always refused to let go of her childhood pride.Initially, he forced her into submission in the harshest way possible, which made her despise him to the bone.At twenty, she abandoned her husband, followed a man she thought was worthy of her, only to end up being violently mistreated.Yet, it was he who raised her from the rain when she was at her most helpless moment.Fate brought her back to her eighteenth year, for a do-over. She emerged from her cocoon, when hate was replaced by regret, she shed her thorny exterior, but does she still have the right to pursue happiness?But why does he always remind her in the coldest voice, “He Zhilan, I don't want the He Family to raise an ungrateful wretch.”Or menacingly warn her, “He Zhilan, don't force me to take away your freedom!”