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[Main story and first extra chapter complete!]
Xiang Wanwan, a sword cultivator who failed to ascend, transmigrates into a modern urban cultivation novel aimed at male readers. She becomes the real daughter of a wealthy family, but her spiritual root is impure, her body is frail, and everyone says she can't cultivate.
The fake daughter arrogantly breaks off her engagement and humiliates the male lead, only to lose her claim to the family fortune. The real daughter is found and brought home, young, beautiful, kind, and rich enough to rival a nation. She devotes herself to helping the male lead cultivate, and eventually gets engaged to him again.
Sounds wonderful, doesn't it?
But in the book's ending, the male lead falls deeply in love with the fake daughter, who also happens to have the ideal physique for dual cultivation. So he keeps up a relationship with the fake daughter while being lovey-dovey with the real daughter. In the end, the real daughter spends her entire inheritance on him and dies saving his life. The male lead claims that the real daughter will always be his wife and that he'll never marry again.
Then he takes the fake daughter and a whole host of other women as girlfriends, cheating so wildly he's practically an octopus.
After reading the plot, Xiang Wanwan says, "...The male lead and fake daughter are made for each other. I wish you both happiness. I'm out."
Why would she need a male lead? Her perfectly ordinary money powers are all she needs.
Impure spiritual root? Xiang Wanwan goes to see the top medical cultivator. Her assistant sets down a check. "One billion. Please repair our young lady's spiritual root."
Fraile body? Xiang Wanwan goes to a spiritual plant auction. Her assistant raises a paddle. "Three hundred million. Our young lady wants that Southern Bright Fire Ganoderma."
The fake daughter, agonizing over whether to add an egg to her pancake today, sobs, "Big sister! Big sister, look at me!"
The male lead, whose cultivation is slow without the help of rare treasures, declares, "Darling! Liu Bei was single-minded about taking Jingzhou. I only want to marry you!"
Xiang Wanwan toys with the peerless treasure in her hands and instructs her assistant, "Keep an eye on the trending topics. Don't let them ride our coattails."
"Yes, Miss." Her assistant bows slightly.
What kind of lousy male lead is that? She wouldn't want him even if he were free. He's not as useful as her assistant. What does she need a man for? Her life-bound spirit sword is the real beauty. Too bad it didn't come through with her.
Muttering to herself, Xiang Wanwan props her chin on her hand and asks, "Assistant Pei, do you like minerals?"
Her sword loves minerals, and the rarer, the better. In her previous life, she was so poor from feeding the treasure that she began fasting at fifteen.
Her assistant, Pei, reminds his subordinates of their duties with a serious face. The passing years have carved his features into strikingly handsome lines, and his voice is cool and clear. "I used to. I don't anymore."
After saying that, his Adam's apple bobs a few times. His fingers tighten around the mouse until they turn pale as he nervously waits for her to ask:
--Then what do you like now?
--You.
My other completed works:
Real daughter exorcist x male lead who transmigrated into a book: The Real Daughter Strikes It Rich on Ghost Street
Money-loving exorcist heroine vs. CEO who spends without hesitation: The CEO's Substitute Wife's Daily Metaphysics
Stories about spiritual qi revival:
Urban medical cultivation, medical cultivator x metaphysics inspector: After the Male Lead's White Moonlight Returns, I'm Kicked Out of the Wealthy Family [Book Transmigration]
Urban formations, feel-good story about an academic overachiever: I Transmigrated into a Delicate White Flower and Turned My Life Around by Studying [Book Transmigration]
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Blurb
Only after Lu Jingyan dies does she learn that she's the heroine of an abusive substitute romance.
She suppresses her merfolk bloodline for the male lead, but he treats her as a stand-in for his white moonlight. He schemes to possess her, abuses her physically and emotionally, turns everyone against her, and seizes her family's assets. She still loves him desperately and is even willing to die for him, all because of the abusive-romance plot.
Everything is in service of the obsessive male lead's domineering love.
To hell with that!
When she is reborn, Qi Yunzhe coldly warns her, "You think you can ruin Zhiyi's red-carpet appearance? Dream on!"
Dream on? Lu Jingyan, whose merfolk bloodline has awakened, smiles faintly and spends an hour weaving water into silk.
That evening at the fashion awards, a certain starlet dazzles the crowd in a merfolk silk gown and takes the top spot on the trending list. The white moonlight is so furious that her makeup runs as she collapses into the domineering male lead's arms. The paparazzi happen to capture it all.
Overnight, the white moonlight's image as someone above the fray crumbles, and scandal swirls around the domineering male lead, leaving him too busy to deal with it. Lu Jingyan, meanwhile, becomes a rising star in the fashion world. Luxury brands, wealthy families, and top actresses all consider it an honor to attend events in gowns made from her merfolk silk.
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At first, the scumbag crosses his arms and sneers, "Just wait. In two days, she'll be crying and begging me to look at her."
Later, the scumbag pleads pathetically, "Jingyan! Jingyan! Please look at me!"
The bodyguards impassively keep him back. "Sir, please don't interfere with our chairwoman and her husband."
#The abused-romance heroine becomes a heroine in a satisfying scumbag-trampling story#
#Follow me and you'll dazzle the crowd#
#Cross me and you'll fade into the background#
#Fighting fire with fire, letting monsters devour monsters. If you want to put on a show, I'll play along#
#My kingdom welcomes you to submit or contribute#
Note: The last two lines are from the songs Black Eats Black and Are You Ready by A-Mei.
Theme: Break free from a scumbag and claim your independence.
Wanwan:…! ! ! ! I thought I thought you...
Pei: Just think that I don't love myself!
Wanwan: No,
Pei: Yes!
Hahahahahaha everyone is not on the same channel
Male protagonist: (unilaterally) broken in love QAQ
It's so annoying, going around and around, the heroine knows the plot, knows who knows how to cure diseases, and how to repair spiritual roots, and then, she's all waiting for the supporting characters to come and take the lead, don't she know how to take the initiative?
Ah, I feel a bit reluctant to part with the Awakened System eh (Q~Q)
I'm tired of it, really. Everyone despises the heroine because of her gender and body. You can't see anything the heroine does. Every chapter is the same slap in the face. I have repeated it at least five times. I am so tired.
,,! I'm going crazy looking at it! Do you need five seconds to finish a sentence? Is it so difficult to finish a sentence?
It's so miserable, it's so miserable, hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, tell her
Madam, am I not your little baby?
Why don't you come back and write an article?
It's been 4 years. . . . .
My baby knows how to make soy sauce, where is my wife?
"Quarrel" is a big thorn in the side of the author~
Super
I'm really going to be so angry. What's the difference between what [he] said and what Pu Xinnan says now? ? Arrogant, arrogant, and disgusting
Wanwan:…! ! ! ! I thought I thought you... Pei: Just think that I don't love myself! Wanwan: No, Pei: Yes! Hahahahahaha everyone is not on the same channel
Male protagonist: (unilaterally) broken in love QAQ
It's so annoying, going around and around, the heroine knows the plot, knows who knows how to cure diseases, and how to repair spiritual roots, and then, she's all waiting for the supporting characters to come and take the lead, don't she know how to take the initiative?
Ah, I feel a bit reluctant to part with the Awakened System eh (Q~Q)
I'm tired of it, really. Everyone despises the heroine because of her gender and body. You can't see anything the heroine does. Every chapter is the same slap in the face. I have repeated it at least five times. I am so tired.
,,! I'm going crazy looking at it! Do you need five seconds to finish a sentence? Is it so difficult to finish a sentence?
It's so miserable, it's so miserable, hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, tell her
Madam, am I not your little baby? Why don't you come back and write an article? It's been 4 years. . . . . My baby knows how to make soy sauce, where is my wife?
"Quarrel" is a big thorn in the side of the author~ Super
I'm really going to be so angry. What's the difference between what [he] said and what Pu Xinnan says now? ? Arrogant, arrogant, and disgusting