Transmigrate into a Book: The Eighties Hong Kong Island Villainess Leads Her Sisters to Fortune

[Transmigrate into a book + raising kids + taking it easy + subverting the usual tropes + an entire cast of villains + women helping women + Hong Kong period setting + no romance] Ji Fuyao, a member of an assassin organization, was caught in an explosion while carrying out a mission and transmigrated into an 1980s Hong Kong romance novel. She became the self-sacrificing cannon-fodder character who was used as a stand-in for the male lead’s beloved and eventually died saving his child. When she arrived, the original Ji Fuyao was clutching the illegitimate child of the male lead and his beloved outside a burning building, ready to rush in and trade places with the man. Ji Fuyao: ...? (Grandma staring at her phone on the subway.jpg) She casually handed the kid to a firefighter nearby and walked away. As if! Why should she risk her life for someone else’s child? After leaving showbiz, Ji Fuyao opened a “Villains’ Dessert Soup Shop” in Kowloon Walled City to support herself and the original owner’s frail younger sister. Before long, all the “bad women” who had been bullied, abandoned, or pushed to the brink began gathering at her shop. A dancer who stabbed her abusive husband and went on the run, a gold digger who fleeced men of their money, an actress who ruined someone else’s career out of jealousy... They all found refuge with Ji Fuyao. The dancer became the dessert shop’s stunning centerpiece, the gold digger its meticulous accountant, and the actress its best publicist. They didn’t care about one another’s pasts. Later, a saying spread throughout Kowloon: “You’d sooner cross the King of Hell than the dessert shop.” When the original novel’s hero and heroine were hunted by their enemies and left with nowhere to turn, someone suggested, “Go ask Ji Fuyao for help.” The male lead’s face turned ashen. He knew that Ji Fuyao’s dessert shop was the only place in the world he couldn’t force open with money or power, and the one place he couldn’t afford to offend.