The Villainess's Guide to Self-Rescue

[Transmigrate into a book + change the plot + fictional characters awaken + romantic rivalry]

If you’re destined to be the villainess, will you turn over a new leaf and start behaving, or resolutely embrace your wicked ways to the end?

Yu Wei was an unremarkable-looking young lady from a fallen family.

Before her family fell into decline, she and Cheng Jingci had been true childhood sweethearts. Everyone said they were perfectly matched, from families of equal standing. But after the Yu family’s downfall, she became the shameless toad everyone said was deluded enough to crave a bite of Cheng Jingci, their beautiful swan.

Yu Wei smiled. As an ambitious “toad,” of course she wasn’t going to let the swan right in front of her slip away.

So she used every trick in the book, regardless of whether they were fair or foul, until she finally got her hands on Cheng Jingci. Just as her plans for becoming a rich man’s wife were clicking along nicely, she dreamed of her own miserable future...

A note at the beginning: The heroine is genuinely selfish and has a character-development arc. She is not perfect, so don’t read if that bothers you.