Stories with a Serious Female Lead and a Serious Plot 女主不搞笑剧情不搞笑的小说
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My Husband’s Charging Port Is Hidden Behind His Waist 丈夫的充电口藏在腰后
Her husband's charging port is hidden behind his waist
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Reborn on the Eve of Our Marriage Registration, the Hong Kong Tycoon's Heir Kneels to Win Me Back 重生领证前夕，港圈太子跪着追妻
[Signed for publication; short-form drama episodes are being released] [Both leads are faithful to each other + face-slapping + pregnancy before love + reborn, sweet and satisfying, with no angst] [She pursues her husband during the marriage, driving the arrogant, cold-hearted crown prince to the brink] A gentle woman who handles things ruthlessly, a delicate beauty in poor health VS a sharp-tongued but henpecked ice prince - Shu Hui got pregnant after a one-night stand with the heir to a powerf
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Awakening in the 1980s: I Have a Child with the Infamous Village Tyrant 睁眼八零：和凶名在外村霸有崽了
When Hu Yao woke up, she found a mischievous yet well-behaved son and a scoundrel of a man beside her. Shocked and bewildered, she heard from the neighbors she knew that four years earlier, she'd hit her head so hard she was left simple-minded, and her mother had sold her. Over those four years, she had not only gained a husband but also a mischievous child who fiercely protected her. The bastard of a man was always putting his hands on her, and he was exceptionally fierce and unreasonable. Terr
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You Broke Your Promise 你失信了
The acclaimed signature work You Broke Your Promise by popular author Shi Qingyao, now with 40,000 new words of never-before-published content! Sensitive girl Xiang Yu VS golden boy Song Huaishi. I had to play out the whole secret-crush story, so I loved him year after year. It was an ordinary day. Just as she closed her eyes, Xiang Yu suddenly thought of Song Huaishi: Song Huaishi, neat in his clothes and radiating warmth. Song Huaishi at seventeen. Still in his school uniform, he leaned lazily
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Zero-Degree Intimacy 零度暧昧
[The print edition goes on sale across all platforms on August 1] [Short drama now streaming] Previously titled: Zero-Degree Intimacy [One-on-one romance + both leads’ first love + happy ending + secret marriage + sweet romance ♥ Double-layer milk foam, 70% sugar!] (Rich, sharp-tongued, scheming investor Jian Yuchen VS money-loving, mischievous young designer Wen Ni) In a nutshell: She married her nemesis. In physics, zero degrees is the point where ice and water coexist. Zero-degree intimacy is
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Quick Transmigration: The Max-Level Host Goes Wild 快穿：满级宿主在线发疯
[Strong heroine + System + no fixed pairing + satisfying power fantasy + not a romance (the love interests are all just tools) + each world is unrelated] Zong Ke, heir to a top conglomerate, was enjoying the thrill of balancing on the edge of a rooftop when an unreliable System mistook her for a suicide risk and bound itself to her. After realizing it had bound the wrong person, the System tearfully offered her benefits to entice her into traveling to various parallel worlds, taking over messes,
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Driven to Death by a Cultivator’s Mistress? I’ll Raise My Sword to the Nine Heavens 被修仙外室逼死？我提剑杀上九霄
[Power fantasy, a female lead who begins as a villain and turns righteous, no transmigration, no rebirth] Only when she was dying did Li Fu learn why she could never defeat her husband's mistress, Huayue. It turned out that beyond this world lay a realm of cultivation. Huayue had come from that realm. With Taoist magic at her command, there was no way Li Fu could ever beat her. Tortured, skinned, and dismembered, Li Fu was abandoned by everyone and died after enduring every kind of suffering. Ho
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Transmigrated as a Treacherous Minister's Legitimate Daughter, She Plays the Part to Perfection 穿成奸臣嫡女，她本色出演
[Transmigrate into a book + Career-focused early on + Sweet romance + One-on-one romance + Both leads are devoted to each other] [Two-faced, ruthless minister's daughter × Wild, formidable iron-faced general] The ruler of the business world transmigrates into a book overnight, becoming the daughter of the treacherous chancellor. She throws her weight around and commits every kind of evil, with the label “vicious supporting female character” practically branded onto her. She's madly pursuing the
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Thriller Game: Infinite Escape Starting as a Little Girl 惊悚游戏：从萝莉开始无限逃生
[Infinite-Flow + No Romance + Horror Game + Female Lead Who Grows Stronger + Light Ensemble Cast + A Touch of Group Adoration] A special card guides those trapped in desperate circumstances into an endless horror game... Survive, and you may win untold riches and rise above everyone else. Fail to survive, and you become food for all kinds of vengeful spirits, only to die mysteriously after leaving the game. Are you ready to enter the game? It's all right if you're not ready. You have no choice.
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After Becoming the Youngest Junior Sister of an Immortal Sect the Cultivation World Went Crazy for Me 穿成仙门小师妹后修真界为我疯狂
Ning Yue died and transmigrated into a cultivation world. Terrified, she immediately stripped off her clothes. Only when she saw the familiar flame-shaped birthmark on her shoulder did she finally relax. At least it was still her own body! To survive, Ning Yue threw herself into cultivation and earned a place at one of the five great sects. True to the principle of being a jack of all trades and master of none: Alchemy? Easy! Her cooking skills in her previous life were top-notch! Talisman-makin
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All-Around Rare Female: The Big Shots Line Up to Marry Her 全能珍稀雌性：大佬们排队想嫁她
Beastfolk + sci-fi apocalypse + everyone’s favorite + romantic rivalry Li Xun transmigrates from a human apocalypse into an apocalypse in the beastfolk world. The monsters here are more brutal than zombies, and the beastfolk are wilder than humans. Yet this world is ruled by females, with males subordinate to them. Females are rare and treasured above all else. Male beasts gain terrifying combat strength according to their rank, but every beast is poisoned by the apocalypse. Only females who
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Beast Taming: I Became a Legend After My Pet Beast Space Mutated 御兽：宠兽空间变异后我超神了
[Beast Taming for All + No Romance + Strong Female Lead + Genius Protagonist + Evolution] Ming Xi, an Earthling, transmigrates to the stars and arrives in a dazzling civilization built around beast taming. She’s a debt-ridden middle school girl who has to juggle three part-time jobs a day just to support her family. Is this any way to treat a person? Is this really what a minor should have to endure? Although life is this miserable, Ming Xi still embraces it wholeheartedly. Because spirit beasts
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The Galaxy's Most Popular Guide: She's a Heartbreaker, You Know 星际万人迷：哨哨她啊，是渣女捏
[Complete] [Everyone’s Favorite + A Messy Love Rivalry + One Regretful Suitor After Another + One-Sided Crushes] [Note: No power-struggle plot, and this is not a traditional level-up power fantasy!] Ordinary sentinels: “Elephant kick! Crow flies a plane! Tornado destroys the parking lot!” They can knock out a frail opponent with one punch. Ying Xi, an E-rank sentinel, is exactly that kind of frail opponent. [Weak mental landscape; low threshold for emotional instability.] She needs a guide to he
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After I Transmigrated to the Stars and Joined the Reserve Corps 穿越星际成为守备役之后
After transmigrating to the interstellar world, Lin Zheng found herself fighting for her life from the start. Attacked by impostors, she barely escaped danger, only to face Green Ark’s new survival rules. Becoming the mother of seven or eight children at such a young age was absolutely out of the question. Where there are rules, there are loopholes. Lin Zheng wasn’t worried. She was just an ordinary girl, with no System, no golden finger, and no exceptional talent, but as long as she didn’t give
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Boss, Remember to Pretend We Don't Know Each Other When You Go Out 大佬，出门记得装不熟
The short drama A Proper Match with Zhao Ran is now streaming [Upright, proper senior leader & beautiful, clear-eyed university lecturer] "Powerful man bows his head 11-year age gap Sweet romance Both leads are devoted to each other" With an uncaring father and mother, Xu Weizhao’s plan for her life was simple: stay unnoticed, buy a little house, and remain unmarried and childless for peace of mind. It was supposed to be an easy plan, but in a single night, everything was thrown into disarray. S
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So Fragrant! So Sweet! So Soft! Chen Lu Falls for Her After Tasting Her Cooking 香！甜！软！软饭好吃，陈律沦陷
The main story is complete [Both leads are each other's first + Sweet romance + Love and hate + Male lead's secret identity: a tycoon + Satisfying comeuppance for awful people] Shen Xi fell for Chen Chuan at first sight. Of course, she was attracted by his handsome face and great figure. Liking money and good looks: isn't that the nature of young people today? She thought that after their “one night” together, they could go their separate ways. Who would have thought he'd say, “Since we've alrea
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The Crazy Little Junior Sister Is Extremely Career-Driven 疯批小师妹她事业心超重的
[Strong female lead, play the pig to eat the tiger, punishing scumbags, lighthearted, goofy] Jiang Ning transmigrates into a book, becoming a vicious supporting woman who gets stabbed full of holes for offending the heroine. On the very day she transmigrates into the book, she strikes first and buries the heroine. Then she joins the Lingyun Sect, ranked eighteenth on the whole continent, where everyone has given up trying. Her impoverished, sweetly naive senior brother says, “Your senior brother
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Her Whole Family Is Love-Struck, but the Villainous Little Sister Goes on a Rampage 全家恋爱脑，反派小妹杀疯了
Chu Wanning woke up one morning and found she had become the ultimate villain in a cultivation novel with a female protagonist. In the novel, nearly every step the heroine took toward becoming stronger was built on Chu Wanning’s downfall. Everyone loved the heroine, who enjoyed endless glory, while Chu Wanning was hated by everyone and treated like a rat in the street. Should she fight back or give up? No. She chose to find a different heroine. Luckily, she came from a good family. She had eight
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The Real Heiress’s Mind Was Read, and the Entire Court Went Mad 真千金被读心后，满朝文武癫了
[Mind Reading + Whole-Family Adoration + Gossip System + Cannon Fodder Comeback + Fictional Ancient Setting + No Romance] The first time Xiao Panpan went to a male model club, she picked a model. In her eagerness to feel his abs, she tripped, hit her head on the floor, and passed out. When she woke up, she had become the biological daughter recently brought home by the Left Vice Minister in a fictional ancient dynasty. [Dad, don’t just focus on work! Your fake daughter is about to contact a prin
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The Whole Family Transmigrates to 1970: How Can We Get By Without a System? 全家穿70，没有系统怎么行
Chen Xiaoman was the late-in-life baby of her parents. When she turned twenty, they finally retired. To celebrate, the family decided to take a road trip. But they got into a car accident on the highway and transmigrated into a minor-character family in a 1970s novel. In the original story, the family met a tragic end. To change their fate, they decided to leave the city and return to the countryside at once. They expected life in the village to be hard, but unexpectedly, they got a star-domain
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I’m Stirring Up the Cultivation World with Grind Culture 我在修仙界搞内卷
[Print edition now available] After Qin Shu transmigrated into a book, she learned that she was a fraud who had taken her younger half-sister's place to cultivate immortality. After eight years of cultivation, her half-sister entered the Dao despite having been an ordinary mortal. Qin Shu's cover was blown in front of everyone, and the sect mercilessly cast her out, even though she had only reached the third level of Qi Refining. With her peerless beauty, she was turned into a cultivation furn
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The Frail and Sickly Fourth Princess Consort of the Qing Dynasty 清穿四福晋她体弱多病
After working herself to the bone for nothing, Guan Xingyao was diagnosed with terminal cancer at twenty-five and decided to finally give herself a break. When she opened her eyes again, she had become Usiha, a frail, premature baby girl of the Gūwalgiya clan, whose name means Starshine. Her one goal in this new life: survive! After finally making it through a sickly childhood and receiving an exemption from the imperial selection, Usiha planned to live a quiet life. But a royal hunt complete
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Beneath Her Lips, My Madness 她唇之下，我之癫狂
[Female-led revenge and satisfying comeuppance + devoted couple and sweet romance + healing and redemption] Sixteen years ago, Tangxi Li's mother jumped to her death, and seven-year-old Tangxi Li was banished abroad by her family. After sixteen years of keeping a low profile and biding her time, she had grown strong enough to return home for revenge. She swore to drag everyone who had caused her mother's death down to hell, one by one. She never expected someone to show up on her path of vengean
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The Villainess Awakens and Slaughters Her Way Through the World, Defying Heaven 恶人女主觉醒杀疯天下毁天道
Content warning: The heroine is a madwoman who holds grudges and is ruthless. (The story is entirely fictional. Don’t take it seriously, and it doesn’t represent the author’s values.) Only after being reborn for the third time did Ye Sangning learn that she was merely an NPC in a game, doomed to die the same miserable death in every life. Her loving parents, devoted older brother, and infatuated fiancé were all targeted by the woman chosen by the System. After that woman appeared, everyone who h
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Reborn Nine Times, the Unhinged Villainess Takes Everyone Down 重生九次，疯批女配创死所有人
[Villainess awakens + reborn for revenge + exposes and punishes scumbags + goes crazy and face-slaps them (literal face-slapping) + romance] Qiao Siyu was ignored and ostracized by her family from childhood. She was thrown out of the house, forced to take the blame, and had a kidney stolen. In the end, her enemies ran her over in revenge, leaving her paralyzed from head to toe. After wringing every last bit of value from her, the Qiao family abandoned her in the hospital to fend for herself. She
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She Seeks Revenge, He Seeks Power, and They Make the Perfect Partners in Crime 她复仇，他谋权，恰好狼狈为奸
As the eldest legitimate daughter of the Southern Kingdom's great general, Wen Yue should have enjoyed a safe and comfortable life under her family's protection. But fate took a sudden turn. Her father's conviction for treason and colluding with the enemy sent her into exile. On that arduous journey, the person she had fought with all her strength to protect tried to take her life. To exact her revenge, she resolutely entered the game, infiltrating the enemy kingdom's imperial family. But is the
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The Legend of Yun Qiao 云翘传
[Transmigration]+ [Revenge]+ [Medical Skills] [A guide to what this story does not have: no space, no supernatural abilities, no martial arts, and no golden finger. The heroine has only her superb medical skills to rely on!] Yun Qiao, a genius doctor from the twenty-first century, was transported to a dynasty she had never heard of after a plane crash. For five years, she relived in her dreams the short life of a five-year-old girl named Lin Qiao, who shared her name. In her dreams, she watched
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The Black Lotus Heroine’s Road to Revenge 黑莲花女主的复仇之路
[Revenge + Palace Intrigue + Power Struggles + Two Strong Leads + Not Both Pure] She, Xiao Lian'er, was once a heaven-blessed girl, born to bask in the sun. But after her entire clan was wiped out, she was left bearing a blood feud. Driven by revenge, she approaches him, and the cheerful, lively girl she once was becomes calculating and inscrutable. She advances step by step through the abyss of vengeance, taking dangerous gambles amid political schemes. In the end, she stands at the very summit
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What a Shock! I Opened a Supermarket on the Long March 惊！我居然在长征路上开超市
[No CP + Business-Building + Patriotism + Growth] After failing a job interview, Jiang Nan was walking home when a mango fell from a tree and hit her on the head. By sheer chance, she became bound to a supermarket System. Her mission is to run a supermarket along the Long March route, helping the troops reach their destination safely and improving their happiness levels. At first, she only wanted to earn enough money to return to the modern world and spend it. But eventually, she began using eve
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Heart-Stopping! After Losing Her Memory, She’s Seduced with a Passionate Kiss by Her Archrival 超心动！失忆后被死对头深情诱吻
[Cool, Gentle Girl + Cocky Beijing Rich Kid, Secret Crush, Sweet Romance, Healing, Both Devoted] Yu Yingying has lost her memory. At the hospital, a righteous young nurse steps in to scold a handsome, carefree rich kid on her behalf: “Treat your girlfriend better! You’re dressed so fashionably, while she’s clearly malnourished. Does that seem right to you?” Yu Yingying, who has just woken up: …? She has a boyfriend? And he’s an irritable rich kid with a terrible temper?! Studying is way more fun
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Back in the Capital, the Brilliant Miss Is Famous Across the Land 回京后，神算大小姐名满天下
[No romance + metaphysics + fortune-telling + satisfying read + secret identity + ghost-catching + lighthearted, no angst~] Yun Zhuo of the Xiao family was abandoned as a child. When her relatives come looking for her, she decisively returns to the capital to become a thorn in their side. Her birth mother says she’s uncouth and illiterate? But in the blink of an eye, she’s welcomed into the capital’s circle of master scholars, discussing poetry and prose and interpreting the fate of the world. T
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Transmigrating into a Refugee Exodus: I Use the System to Raise an Emperor 穿越逃荒：我靠系统扶持一代帝王
Gu Jiu unexpectedly transmigrated to ancient times, where everything was already inconvenient. Then disaster struck. With no other way to survive, she clung desperately to the person who had saved her. With her benefactor by her side, she had nothing to fear on the road to refuge. What could she do when disease, hunger, wild beasts, and villains all came at once? Bring it on! She was a jack of all trades with a System pocket dimension, capable of taking down anything. (Xie Zhan: You can't put o
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Indulging in Sweet Romance: President Bai's Rose Came to Life 肆宠甜婚：柏总的玫瑰成精了
[Print edition signed, awaiting release] [Unworldly Rose Goddess VS fabulously wealthy Lord of Fortune] [Marriage before love + devoted couple + each other's one true love + super sweet] “She cares for all things, but I care only for her.” “She loves all living beings, yet her heart belongs to only one.” Yun Yao was born with an auspicious destiny and an extraordinary ability to ward off disaster. It not only led to her being taken in by the wealthy Qiao family of Lingwu City, but also caught th
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With the Notable Ministers System in Hand, I Disguise Myself as a Man in Ancient Times 手拿名臣系统，我在古代女扮男装
Xu Yue transmigrates into a book. She becomes the delicate, vulnerable cousin of the male lead in an examination-themed novel: her mother died young, she has no brothers and no one to rely on, and her family won't take her in, so she is awkwardly forced to live in the male lead's home. In her previous life, Xu Yue rose from being an orphan to earning a doctorate. She never believed in fate, and even though it was hard for women to get by in ancient times, she never stopped thinking about how to
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The Phoenix Among Concubines: A Wild Little Miss Who Thrives on Adoration 庶女为凰：嗜宠逆天小狂妃
She was a legendary top assassin who ruled the 21st century, betrayed and shot dead by her own companion! She was a foolish, useless girl from the Di family of Xiyue Kingdom, bullied by everyone and beaten to death by her own cousins on New Year's Eve! When the scrawny little girl on the bed opened her eyes again, she gave a wicked smile. “Come on, I'll take you to hell with me!” She cultivates spiritual energy, contracts divine beasts, avenges her blood feud, and searches for the truth behind h
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Quick Transmigration: The Host Is Being Aggressively Pursued by the Villain 快穿：宿主她被反派强撩了
Ruan Mei goes on quick transmigrations just to complete missions, but a mysterious man relentlessly pursues her. She thinks he's a poor little thing, only to discover he's the real deal! Villainous CEO: “Ruan Ruan, marry me.” Villainous underachiever: “Ruan Ruan, please tutor me.” Entertainment industry's Best Actor: “From now on, I'll only play married couples with you!” Villainous Crown Prince: “I want both the empire and you.” Villainous master: “When you're tired of playing, come back.”
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Quick Transmigration: Saving the Villain Who Turned Evil and Became Obsessive 快穿：拯救黑化的偏执反派
[Strong female lead + sweet romance + putting scumbags in their place] The Immortal Venerable, who had gone through trials in three thousand small worlds, actually failed to overcome his tribulation. The reason turned out to be the charming little flower demon who flirted with the Immortal Venerable in every lifetime, then walked away without a backward glance. The immortals had no other choice. For the Immortal Venerable’s sake, they captured the flower demon and tasked her with fulfilling his
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The Mystic Queen Returns and Turns the Ghost Realm Upside Down 玄学女王回归后，炸翻鬼界
[Metaphysics + redemption + ghost hunting] Lu Chi, a gifted young man, loses his sight and becomes paralyzed in a car accident. Everyone tramples on and humiliates him, and he grows dark and twisted. Ye Qing, a grandmaster of metaphysics, comes to repay a debt of gratitude. She treats his illness, treats him kindly, and gives him all the tenderness she can. His pale, frightening face turns toward her. “What do you want?” Ye Qing smiles brightly. “I want you to be well.” In an instant, all the em
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Quick Transmigration: The Tortured Novel’s Heroine Quits 快穿：虐文女主她撂挑子不干了
[Sweet Story, One-on-One Mutual Devotion, Gu Yu and Feng Ling] In tragic romance worlds, authors torment their heroines until they all quit, leaving the fictional worlds on the brink of collapse! Gu Yu, who dies after staying up all night reading a tragic romance, is chosen by a System and becomes the heroine of various heartbreaking novels. By repairing rifts in these worlds, she can earn a chance to be reborn and make money. But along the way, she falls in love with someone. He is mysterious y
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Quick Transmigration: The Yandere Male Lead Is Jealous Again 快穿：病娇男主他又吃醋了
[Season One and Season Two of the short drama based on this book, Quick Transmigration: The Lovesick Male Lead Is Jealous Again, are now streaming. The print edition, titled He's Jealous Again, is available in Volumes One and Two.] Qu Yan is famous among quick transmigration agents for being beautiful, seductive, spoiled, and carefree. She has never failed a mission. No matter how arrogant and unruly a man may be, eventually he will become The cold, domineering CEO: “Be a good girl, darling. I
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