The Adorable Cousin

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Blurb One

Jiang Rao, eldest daughter of the Nanyang Marquis household, has glossy hair, a slender waist, and a graceful figure.

Lately, Jiang Rao has been having a lot of dreams. In them, the marquis household's true daughter is someone else, and the brutal Marquis of Huaiyin desires her so much that he destroys her family.

When she wakes from one dream, the true daughter has returned, and the Marquis of Huaiyin is about to arrive.

Jiang Rao packs a small bundle and hurries off to her maternal grandparents' home, where she marries her handsome, refined second cousin.

Outsiders say Yan An is aloof and otherworldly, proper and upright. Only Jiang Rao knows how much he loves to bully her.

A smile playing on his lips, he lounges with easy indolence. His peach-blossom eyes seem to hold a hook, teasing her with a look that's there one moment and gone the next. "Cousin, could it be that you're enamored with me? You blush every time you see me."

After they marry, Jiang Rao's cheeks are rosy, her eyes brim with spring, and her irresistible charm is impossible to hide.

Blurb Two:

Yan An's voice rang like jade striking the floor. His dark eyes met Jiang Rao's. "Marry me, and I'll do everything I can to give you what you want."

Jiang Rao gazed at Yan An with a beaming smile. "Husband, you're so good to me!" At last, she wouldn't have to copy ten pages of calligraphy as punishment from her second cousin!

Yan An caressed her dewy lips and spoke in a languid voice. "But that depends on how you behave."

Jiang Rao's smile froze. Her husband was a real jerk, always picking on her!

[Charming, gorgeous fake cousin X aloof, celibate second cousin]

1. My Parents in Their Youth is currently updating and will soon be complete.

After returning to her hometown, Ye Xingzhi began encountering strange things. One night, she dreamed that she was a villain in several storybooks, and that she had a three-and-a-half-year-old villainous daughter named Lu Kui Kui.

The storybooks all had one thing in common: the hero was Lu Kui Kui's father, Lu Shi'an, while Ye Xingzhi and three-and-a-half-year-old Lu Kui Kui were vicious villains who were eventually abandoned by him.

Ye Xingzhi dismissed it as a nightmare, but that very afternoon she met a little girl.

The child's face was round as a little sunflower. She threw herself into Ye Xingzhi's arms and called her Mommy.

Ye Xingzhi: She's only sixteen, unmarried. How could she possibly have a three-and-a-half-year-old villainous little sunflower for a daughter?

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Lu Kui Kui woke up seven years in the past. She wanted to find her mother, but one after another, people looked at her and her mother, Ye Xingzhi, as if they were villains.

Ye Xingzhi: The creditors are here! Those pitiful cannon-fodder characters in the storybooks have awakened and come to get revenge on me and Lu Kui Kui!

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Ye Xingzhi found a young man covered in blood in the hills behind her home. He looked exactly like Kui Kui's father, but his surname wasn't Lu. His name was Xu Xingzhi.

Everyone said Xu Xingzhi was unlucky. He was warm and courteous, but only Ye Xingzhi knew he was no good.

Ye Xingzhi: Is this actually going to be my future scumbag husband? Maybe I shouldn't save him?

2. Coming soon: The Female Supporting Character in an Ancient Apocalypse Story, please add it to your reading list.

Lin Xia is the villainess in a restricted ancient romance novel. Following a tired old plot, she's been jealous of the heroine since childhood, claimed credit for saving her life, and thrown herself at all the powerful men. Whenever the male leads look at the heroine with unmistakably improper intentions, Lin Xia barges in without a clue, mocks and frames the second male lead, Jiang Si, and even drugs him.

After dutifully following most of the plot, one day, giant meteors rained down from the sky. A strange illness appeared, turning the infected bloodthirsty and vicious. They were called the "living corpses."

A group of people hid in a ruined temple. Outside, several living corpses slammed against the wooden door.

The young woman facing the door trembled with fear. Lin Xia was so frail and slender that she probably wouldn't last fifteen minutes before the living corpses charged in and tore her apart.

At the far end, Jiang Si gripped a sharp blade, his expression cold, as if none of this concerned him. A fool like her would be better off as a foolish living corpse.

But just as the living corpses broke through the door, Lin Xia awakened!

Well, does she really need to awaken now?

A sweet ancient romance with steamy content had turned into a steamy apocalypse story. All her hard work over the last decade had been for nothing!

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The young general, the high-level living corpse, the leader of the shelter city, the expert developing a cure for the living corpses... Male Leads One through Six all appear in turn, but none of them have anything to do with Lin Xia. Except for the part where they throw her into a horde of living corpses just to make the heroine happy.

When disaster struck, Jiang Si thought that Lin Xia, a melodramatic girl with no way to defend herself, would be the first to die. But to his surprise, true to her name, Lin Xia was as vigorous as the trees in a midsummer forest. She fought living corpses, stockpiled supplies, grew vegetables and grain, and fled through extreme weather. Even the leaders of the refugee cities competed to become her underlings.

Lin Xia: The apocalypse is hard, and an apocalypse story with steamy content is even harder. Either I get bitten on the first day, or I stay alive!

Bonus Scene:

In the ruined temple, the moment the living corpses broke through the door, newly awakened Lin Xia leaped toward Jiang Si with tender eyes. Clutching the boy's robes, she made sure everyone in the temple could hear her. "Brother, I'm the sister you lost years ago. Save me!"

Jiang Si: ...

Looking at the melodramatic girl in front of him and the strong looks of disapproval from everyone else, Jiang Si's urge to kill only grew stronger!

An ancient-world apocalypse story featuring disaster, stockpiling, fighting zombies, a System, farming, and infrastructure building.

Theme: The true and fake heiresses flourish together, living in harmony and working toward a win-win.