Cheating Men Must Die (CN Manhua)

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Spoiler for Some sample covers of each arc:

Other titles : Wan Zha Chao Huang/ 万渣朝凰
Author/Artist : Shidai Man Wang
Link : https://mangadex.org/title/40778/cheating-men-must-die

Spoiler for Synopsis:

Su Lüxia is a top-ranked Agent of a Second Female Lead Counterattack (Transmigration) System, which accepts the last requests of 2ndary female characters of various novel/book worlds to get revenge on the male/female leads who betrayed them. Lüxia's mission : transmigrate into the requesters, and exact sweet, sweet revenge against those guilty sons/daughters of b*tches.

Spoiler for Usual questions:

Is MC OP - Yes. As a top Agent she has access to many OP tools and powers. She uses it sparingly though, preferring to plot elaborate schemes, tricks and honeytraps to bring about the utter social/personal destructions of the targets. (She really loves this part of the job - no forgiveness or 2nd chances here!)

Is there harem - No.

Is there snusnu - Yes, but only ever implied.

Meta-satire Chinese manhua with a strong-willed, cunning, cruel female lead.

Series is an episodic anthology, MC always travels to various different novel worlds in each arc.
Each arc tends to poke scathing fun at the tropes and cliches of various transmigrator/isekai novels/stories, esp. the romance ones.
It also pokes fun at the sometimes warped thinking, logic and values of the male/female leads you find in these type of novels.
(IMO author is satirising CN novels in general, but some could be applicable to webnovel/webtoon works too.)

There's also a short prequel to the manhua.
https://mangadex.org/title/47503/che...prime-minister

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^Wrong for #3
There are snusnus
In one "life" she even spent the rest of her life married to a man in that universe

[AnimeFangirl]

Haven't read it in a while, but it's good to read it in full arcs. More satisfying that way.

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The last arc (Concubine's Daughter is Venomous) ended as it should, although I wonder if the decision of the emperor not to remarry might cause further trouble down the road of that world.

Newest translated arc (A Literary Giant's Downfall) is focusing on taking down a plagarizing female transmigrator.

Said transmigrator is using her pre-knowledge of famous novels to copypaste them under her own name and become rich, at the expense of the original authors (ie. current world's Su Luxia).

Major catch this arc is:

- Author Su Luxia is still alive. So Agent Su Luxia can only exist as her independent self to advise the author (and possess her if the author allows it).

- Agent Su can't use her tools and can only exist in a tiny form (similar size to her rat subordinate) due to energy-saving mode caused by sudden System maintenance. Of course, this is just an interesting challenge for Agent Su to overcome.

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I've read it and it was a good one. At least now the transmigrated girls have the opponent that she thought she can beat, while in reality she can be played right into Su's hands.