[Pride and Prejudice] A Lovely Lady

[My new story next door, "[Dream of the Red Chamber] Mrs. Lin's Farming Days," is now underway. Thanks for your support.] As Mr. Bingley's good friend, Mr. Darcy is handsome, mature, calm, and proud. At a ball, Mr. Bingley falls in love with Jane at first sight and invites Jane, who has caught a chill, to stay at Netherfield Park. Mary, the least noticed member of her family, is sent by Mrs. Bennet to Netherfield Park to look after her sister. The transmigrated Mary arrives at Netherfield Park. To make sure Jane's romance has a happy ending, she charms everyone who might get in the way, especially Mr. Darcy. Everyone discovers that Mary Bennet is skilled in music, singing, drawing, and dancing, well-read and genuinely talented, and sweet and gentle... She's practically the perfect lady for Mr. Darcy. Everyone is stunned. The Bennet family is stunned, too. Even Mr. Darcy nearly believes it. That is, until one day he passes through the garden and hears Mary complaining to Elizabeth: To make sure Jane and Mr. Bingley can live happily ever after, I've really tried my best. You have no idea how fussy, picky, and difficult Mr. Darcy is. Mr. Darcy: "..." The longest road Mr. Darcy has ever traveled is the one laid out by Mary Bennet. = Reader's notes: 01. [Important] This breaks up the canon couples! I think the blurb makes that perfectly clear. If you don't like the premise, don't click in and make yourself unhappy. 02. Please check the genre. This is a Western-inspired derivative work. Don't say I failed to label it as fanfiction. It's in the derivative fiction section! 03. This is a parallel world, where anything is possible. The heroine is independent and self-respecting, and has done nothing to wrong anyone. If you don't think canon couples should be broken up, find a story that keeps them together. Respecting each other isn't as hard as you think. 04. If you click in just to make your presence felt over something the blurb already explains, I might get mad and insult you! I'm super fierce. jpg [Currently serializing] "[Dream of the Red Chamber] Mrs. Lin's Farming Days" Jia Yan transmigrates into the world of Dream of the Red Chamber. Her father is dead, her mother is gravely ill, and her little brother is only ten. Her uncle, who is no better than a beast, takes advantage of the funeral arrangements to seize the family's only two rooms. Her cousin, to whom she is privately betrothed, passes the imperial examinations and turns around to marry the daughter of a vice minister of the Board of Revenue... Her life is pitch-dark. Thankfully, she still has one clear path ahead: marry Lin Ruhai, the Salt Commissioner, as his second wife. Overnight, she becomes Mrs. Lin. Lin Ruhai is expected to die in office in just a few years, while Lin Daiyu is frail and sickly, and her younger brother Lin Jiangyu is not expected to live long. Jia Yan: Survival is hard. Better treasure every moment. She'd better focus on her duties as Mrs. Lin and make sure her doomed brother and meal ticket, Lin Ruhai, can leave this world without regrets... _(:з)∠)_ But by the time they travel from Yangzhou to the capital, Lin Daiyu has grown up, Lin Jiangyu, who was supposed to die young, is running around everywhere, the Jia family's three generations of wastrels, Jia She, Jia Zhen, and Jia Rong, are all dead, and the Rongguo House has changed hands. Lin Ruhai is still alive, of all things. Not only is Lin Ruhai alive, he has entered the inner cabinet as a chancellor and become the Crown Prince's tutor, reaching the highest rank in the court. Jia Yan, busy farming and raising children: ??? So the plot isn't following the script, and she gets to sit back and relax! [Fantasy romance, coming soon] "Transmigrated as the Male Lead's Ex-Wife in a Business-War Novel" Shi Wei wakes up one day to find herself inside a novel about business wars in Hong Kong. She's become the male lead's not-yet-divorced wife. In the entire novel, she's described in just two lines: A business marriage. Yan Zhen falls in love with the heroine, a jewelry designer, and divorces her. She has no golden finger, only the fate of being abandoned, a family business on the brink of collapse, and... a naive younger brother still in his ivory tower, focused on scientific research. Shi Wei: What was even the point of transmigrating... _(:з)∠)_ Yan Zhen is the son of Hong Kong's richest man. After a disagreement with his father, he leaves home to start his own business. His father has only one requirement for him: He can leave home and start a business, but first he has to marry a daughter of the Shi family. Yan Zhen agrees. He brings Shi Wei home and leaves her there for three years. They are estranged and avoid each other unless necessary. They even have to ask their assistants to schedule their annual Lunar New Year's Eve dinner together. One day, he goes to the wrong private room during a business dinner and discovers his wife, posing as his assistant Shi, working like mad to make money alongside his business rival. Yan Zhen: ...If you're trying to get my attention this way, you've succeeded. Theme: Wherever you are, stay independent and respect yourself.