The Dazzling Pearl

Recommended ongoing historical romance: The Villainess's White Moonlight Has Arrived

Blurb:

Ning Fengyu is the heir of the Marquis of Pingyang, yet he devotes himself to seeking immortality and ignores his wife and children.

On the day he ascends to immortality, his wife Shen Yan Hui, whom he married as a young man, kneels on the ground with their family, crying and pleading with him. He still leaves without looking back.

Only after becoming an immortal does Ning Fengyu learn that he had a tribulation to overcome. He nearly fell into the Avici Hell, and it was only because his wife signed a cruel contract with a demon that he made it through safely.

The contract Shen Yan Hui signed was this: after her death, her soul would enter a sweet romance novel and become the villainess, a character who exists only to envy the heroine and is ultimately doomed to a horrible end.

Ning Fengyu is devastated, miserable, and full of remorse.

In the end, he abandons centuries of cultivation and enters the book too, determined to win his wife back and save her...

Couple: A scheming, vicious villainess who transmigrates into a book VS her ex-husband, who chases his wife until he gets burned...

Blurb:

King Chu loved slender waists, and many women in the palace starved to death.

This is an era when thinness is considered beautiful, but Jin Runzhu was born with a decidedly