A Loyal Hound Beneath Her Skirts [Book Transmigration]

One-line pitch: [After transmigrating into a book and redeeming a cruel, rotten villain, he becomes a loyal dog at my feet.]

Chen Changning transmigrated into a book.

The book, plot, and protagonists didn't matter, because she had only become a minor cannon-fodder character: a dim-witted, mean little girl who bullied the weak and feared the strong, with no brains and no friends. She was a female character far down the pecking order.

As luck would have it, the cannon fodder was also named Chen Changning. Even more coincidentally, just like her, the girl only lived to eighteen. But while Chen Changning had spent eighteen miserable years as a sickly invalid, slowly wasting away, the cannon fodder had been driven to her death.

It all started with a male supporting character who was also a villain. He had been fostered by the Chen family as a child and bullied by the cannon-fodder girl for eight years. His life only got more miserable as he grew up, until he turned evil. The little girl was the first target of his revenge.

You could say the cannon-fodder girl was lucky: she lived to eighteen, full of energy and arrogantly spoiled.

Then again, you could say she was unlucky: she only lived to eighteen, even if she did spend those years full of energy and arrogantly spoiled.

Either way, she had it better than Chen Changning, the frail, short-lived invalid.

So later, while everyone else focused on the hero and heroine when reading novels, she kept her eyes fixed on the cannon-fodder girl and the villainous male supporting character, thanks to their shared name.

Other readers would squeal, "I could totally go for the male lead!"

Chen (with an ice-cold expression.jpg): "To be honest, instead of imagining myself as a Mary Sue heroine, I'd rather transmigrate into that cannon-fodder girl who played a winning hand into a spectacular loss (not because we share a name and I'm secretly jealous, no!). Wouldn't it be more exciting to redeem a cruel, rotten villain and make him depend on me and stay loyal to me with all his heart?"

Isn't the heavens always finding ways to mess with people? She had barely thought it when she died.

When she woke again, she had actually become the Chen Changning from the book.

She was frail and so terrified of dying that she was a complete coward. The great villain was still just a little boy at this point, obediently and quietly following her around, with such pretty eyes and brows that he made people want to dote on him.

Chen Changning raised an eyebrow. Thinking of how powerful the kid would become, she made up her mind at once to be the first butterfly in the butterfly effect, change the course of his life, and pave the way for his future glory.

Chen, wishful-thinking, Ning: I'm so stupid, really. I knew I had transmigrated into a book. I didn't realize the villain had been reborn.

P.S. There are no System missions. The heroine's only golden finger is that she's read the book and remembers the original character's storyline. The fictional world is similar to the real one, and its economic circumstances can be compared to those of the early 2000s. The original hero and heroine won't be vilified. This is probably a somewhat clichéd story about heartfelt redemption and a fake childhood-sweetheart romance.

[Next novel seeking advance readers] "Quick Transmigration: The Scumbag Face-Slapping System": Lin Baiwan is an utterly ordinary twenty-three-year-old shut-in and a low-level employee at a quick transmigration company. She's got an unremarkable figure and a pretty-but-not-stunning face. She's female, and her hobbies are eating, drinking, using the bathroom, and sleeping.

Her pastime is reading novels. She's been reading for ten years and is a longtime victim of old-school, melodramatic angst novels.

On her twenty-third birthday, during the company's anniversary celebration, she used up all the luck she'd saved over twenty-three years and won a trial prize for the company's latest project.

Watching everyone else win second- and third-place prizes worth tens of thousands,

Lin Baiwan: …

Damn, you guys are brutal.

Lin Baiwan remembered the melodramatic novels she'd read, the ones so over-the-top they could blind you. The scumbag men and awful women made it impossible to relate to them, while the second female leads were too nasty and stupid to be worth mentioning. Her one lingering grievance was that some of the girls in those novels had been ruined by male supporting characters or villains. They were good girls, mostly kind and innocent, but the scumbag men destroyed their lives. They were mentioned only once, in passing, as part of the men's backstories, while the men went on to live comfortable, successful lives and shine in the story.

Lin Baiwan (gritting her teeth): "Even my dog of a company isn't this nasty. Put 'Scumbags must die' on the screen!"

Without a second thought, Lin Baiwan grabbed the "Scumbag Face-Slapping System."

The manual: A thousand ways to die, but the first rule of punishing scumbags:

Give them a face-slap, make them eat their words, and leave the scumbags in tears.

World One: A gloomy, volatile delinquent boy vs. a gentle, kindhearted top student (A scumbag who never tires of ruining people meets a transmigrated heroine who's hard to fool and keeps her head.)

World Two: A playboy rich kid vs. a gentle, composed, gracious teacher (He deliberately seduces his enemy's older sister for fun and revenge, planning to win her over, toy with her, and then dump her. Instead, he loses everything, falls deeper and deeper, and regrets it too late.)

World Three: A domineering, vicious stepbrother who often bullies his stepsister vs. a lovely, quiet stepsister with brains and beauty (The stepsister he despises and thinks he can bully turns out to be soft yet strong. The scumbag brother gets nothing but a taste of his own medicine, until he discovers that his stepsister has long since become someone else, while he himself is terminally ill with no cure.)

World Four: A scumbag CEO who loves finding stand-ins vs. a faux-tragic heroine treated as a stand-in for his white moonlight (Being one man's stand-in is the role of a tragic supporting heroine. Being several men's stand-in is the Mary Sue heroine's halo. One thought makes all the difference: multiple paychecks, and a quantitative change leads to a qualitative one.)

Theme: Two adults redeeming each other while wearing children's bodies