Qin Chuan: I want to be a male lead in a female-audience novel too!

Qiuqiu ranted nonstop for ten full minutes before finally stopping, though still wanting to say more, and getting down to business.

"That's about the size of it. You were pulled into a female-audience novel, so Blue Star sent me to give you a golden finger to keep you from being bullied."

"There are two kinds of golden finger Blue Star can give you. One lets you know the plot, and the other is a system. Which one do you want?"

Only children made choices. Qin Chuan was an adult, so he replied, "Can I have them all?"

"Of course not." Qiuqiu refused without hesitation.

When Qin Chuan said nothing, Qiuqiu took the initiative to explain. "It's not that Blue Star doesn't want to give you all of them. It really can only give you this much. Because the novel world brought you here, Blue Star can also sneak a little something of its own into the novel world for you."

"But if it gives you too much, it'll have to use up its own world origin. That would cost too much. Blue Star needs to save that energy to protect more of its residents."

"So there's nothing else it can do. It's not that Blue Star has abandoned you; it has no choice. I hope you can understand."

"Yeah, it's fine. I understand." Qin Chuan nodded. When it came to choosing between the group and the individual, there was nothing wrong with choosing the group. Besides, Blue Star hadn't ignored him; it had even sent him a golden finger.

Back when he had turned into a young child and fallen into the hands of demon cultivators, more than a dozen human cultivators had passed by as he was about to become food, but for various reasons, none of them had intervened.

That was when he had learned a lesson: it was better to rely on oneself than to ask others for help. Only one's own strength could be one's greatest backing.

"Oh, right. The last person left me so muddleheaded that I forgot the most important thing."

Qiuqiu patted its head in annoyance and went on, "Since this is a novel world, you can read the novel's outline first, then decide which golden finger you want."

The novel's cover instantly appeared on the screen again, along with pages he could scroll through.

Qin Chuan didn't read the outline right away. He asked Qiuqiu a question that was immensely important to him.

"Qiuqiu, you said I'm in a low-level novel world. Are the people in this world real?" Qin Chuan's voice trembled slightly. He was afraid to hear the answer.

He couldn't bear to hear that his master wasn't a real person, but a paper character. What would he do? She was the master he thought about day and night, the master who had made his heart flutter the moment he first saw her.

Qiuqiu didn't keep Qin Chuan in suspense, answering him instantly. "They're definitely real people. A low-level novel world is still a world, so the people are real too."

Hearing that his master was real, Qin Chuan's heart finally settled, and he began reading the novel's outline.

Qiuqiu had just said that people from Blue Star would be pulled into novel worlds to serve as cannon fodder. He didn't want to be cannon fodder, a stepping stone on the male and female leads' path of loving and killing each other.

Qin Chuan had read novels on Blue Star before, but never female-audience novels. Just reading this novel's synopsis gave him the expression of the old man on the subway looking at his phone. It was the sort of novel that often appeared in pop-up ads on Tieba.

He already knew the formula: in her previous life, she did XXX. After being reborn, she did XXX. They all regretted it.

Qin Chuan took a deep breath, braced himself for the lightning strike, and turned the page to read the outline.

After reading it, he found that the story was much as he had guessed.

The female lead was named Gu Xiran, the legitimate daughter of the patriarch of the Gu Clan, a cultivation family. In her previous life, she had been a licking dog, obsessively licking her master and senior brothers, but her master and senior brothers only liked the green tea vicious female supporting character, her illegitimate younger sister Gu Xiwan.

Oh, and her fiancé only liked the green tea vicious female supporting character too. In the end, her fiancé broke off their engagement, and she caused her clan to be wiped out. Her cultivation was crippled, reducing her to a mortal who could only live by begging, and she died a miserable death on a snowy day.

At this point, Qin Chuan could only say that the female lead deserved it. The Gu Clan had truly suffered eight lifetimes of bad luck to have a daughter like her.

You were a perfectly good legitimate disciple of a cultivation family. The Gu Clan couldn't compare to the Pure Void Sect, but it was still one of the foremost powers on the Heavenly Origin Continent, with an entire province to itself.

Your father was the clan leader and doted on you, and your own talent was outstanding. Instead of being a proud daughter of heaven, you ran off to be a licking dog and didn't even cultivate seriously. If you didn't die, who would?

By this point, Qin Chuan had already been badly poisoned, but he had to swallow his disgust and keep reading.

After her rebirth, Gu Xiran decided to stop licking her former master, senior brothers, and fiancé. Did that mean she was going to cultivate seriously and kill her enemies from her previous life?

Qin Chuan could only say, "Heh, you're thinking too simply."

Gu Xiran chose to take an even more powerful sect master as her master. Ah, that was right: she had traded up to an even more powerful master and senior brothers to lick.

This time, she got licked instead and became everyone's darling. By a twist of fate, she also saved a flood dragon, Cangwu, the novel's male lead.

Anyway, with her master, senior brothers, and Cangwu backing her, she slapped her former enemies' faces, smack, smack, smack. Mixed in were more than two thousand chapters padded with brain-dead "deeply passionate and heart-wrenching romance" plots about her, Cangwu, and a crowd of licking dogs: you love me, you love me not.

In the end, the male and female leads killed the big villain and lived happily ever after, while the crowd of licking dogs tearfully gave them their blessings.

Having finished the outline, Qin Chuan also knew how he was entangled with the male and female leads. He and the female lead belonged to the same sect, the Pure Void Sect.

The outline didn't say what became of the Pure Void Sect, but judging by the male and female leads' crazed disregard for everything when they fell in love, the Pure Void Sect, the female lead's sect, surely wouldn't come to a good end.

As a disciple of the Pure Void Sect, he could very well end up cannon fodder at the hands of those two lunatics if he wasn't careful.

"Looks like I'll have to take Master far away from that pair of lunatics," Qin Chuan murmured, thinking something over. Qiuqiu didn't disturb him.

Then Qin Chuan immediately discarded the idea. He knew full well that running away was no solution. Killing the male and female leads outright was the proper course.

So he asked Qiuqiu, "Can I just kill the male and female leads?"

"You can, but as you are now, you can't kill them yet," Qiuqiu replied.

"The female lead's trash, and the male lead's trash with nothing but romance in his head. How could I not kill them?" Qin Chuan asked, his brows furrowed tightly.

"This is a female-audience novel. The female lead has a great deal of heavenly dao luck protecting her right now. If you try to kill her, the heavenly dao will always arrange for all sorts of people to save her," Qiuqiu explained.

"What about the male lead?" Qin Chuan pressed.

"Uh... the male lead in a female-audience novel shows up as an invincible big shot. He isn't like the male lead in a male-audience novel, who cultivates for thousands of chapters, levels up and fights monsters all the way, and goes through life and death time and again before becoming invincible in the final few chapters."

"With your current cultivation, the male lead could wipe you out with a puff of breath," Qiuqiu added.

Qin Chuan was stunned. He really hadn't known that male leads in female-audience novels made such impressive entrances. They didn't even have to cultivate hard; they were invincible big shots from the start.

He, on the other hand, had cultivated hard for more than a decade and braved quite a few secret realms, nearly getting killed several times, only to have just reached the Golden Core Stage.

Comparing yourself to others could make you die of anger. This was fucking bullshit.

He wanted to be a male lead in a female-audience novel too!