The Tragic Novel's Heroine Awakens and Sets Her Sights on a Powerful Tycoon

Su Ling died.

Only after her death did she learn that she had been the substitute heroine in a novel full of physical and emotional torment and tragic romance.

Beautiful, delicate, and pitiful, she met the male lead, Shen Mingyan, and was deceived by the lovely illusion he presented. She thought she had found salvation, never realizing she was stepping into another abyss.

Shen Mingyan saw her only as a substitute for the unattainable woman he loved. After enduring a string of tragedies, including misunderstandings, abuse, a kidney transplant, and forced love, she still fell hopelessly in love with him.

Because of him, Su Ling lost her future, her dignity... and her life.

In the end, she died at just twenty-three, struck by a truck that appeared out of nowhere while saving Shen Mingyan.

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When she opened her eyes again, Su Ling had returned to several years earlier, before the tortured romance had truly begun.

Some melodramatic romance novel? She was done with that!

But Shen Mingyan came from a top-tier wealthy family and wielded immense power. He always got whatever he wanted.

Unless she died, there was no way she could escape him.

After thinking it over, Su Ling turned her attention to the true head of the Shen family--

After awakening...

Her beauty, delicacy, and vulnerability became weapons that never failed her.

The first time Shen Tingyan saw her, she was putting on a scheming, sweet-and-innocent act. She stumbled into his arms, the corners of her eyes turning faintly red, her limpid eyes glistening. She looked utterly pitiful.

He saw through her act at a glance, but still found himself stopping in front of her.

He had only meant to watch the show. Who knew she would latch onto him?

And so the lofty, untouchable head of the Shen family was dragged off his pedestal by Su Ling.

On a hot, damp night, the man's long-fingered hand closed around the woman's slender neck, tightening slowly. His deep voice sounded dark and brooding. "Are you using me?"

Su Ling only smiled without answering. She wrapped her arms around his neck, drew him down, and tilted her head up to kiss his cool, thin lips.

A cool, flirtatious beauty x a powerful tycoon who rules a wealthy family

tip: 1. Neither lead is perfect.

2. Everything in the story is there to serve the plot. Don't overanalyze it.

3. HE, SC (a little sweet story, delightfully cheesy and comforting).

Next up: I Won't Run from Being the White Moonlight's Substitute. Please add it to your reading list!

Jiang Yao was a workaholic. She had competed from elementary school through college, then kept competing from school into the workplace. When she suddenly died, she was still at her post.

She died at twenty-four.

When she opened her eyes again, she was alive and had transmigrated into the wealthy-family melodrama The CEO's Substitute Darling, a novel her laid-back coworker had been reading. She had become the substitute bride her coworker envied beyond measure.

In the novel, the original heroine looked just like the powerful man's white moonlight, so he took her by force.

But the original heroine loved someone else. Then her family went bankrupt overnight, leaving her no choice but to marry the powerful man to keep the family business afloat.

And so she wept all day, sinking into despair and constantly thinking about how to escape.

When Jiang Yao heard this plot, she was utterly stunned.

She had a luxurious mansion worth hundreds of billions and more pocket money than she could ever spend. Why would she want to run away?

Hadn't she worked herself to the bone every day just so she could lie flat in a mansion spanning several thousand square meters?

Why escape?

So Jiang Yao made up her mind: as the white moonlight's substitute, she wasn't going to run.

Doubt the laid-back life, understand the laid-back life, become the laid-back life.

After transmigrating into the book, Jiang Yao stopped working herself to the bone and just wanted to lie flat.

The book said the powerful man had a white moonlight and rarely came home, so she played the part of a pretty ornament. She wouldn't bother him or cause trouble, and quietly accepted the black card he gave her. She would simply wait for his white moonlight to return, then take a generous settlement and leave for good.

Later, the white moonlight returned to the country ahead of schedule, but the powerful man seemed to have forgotten all about her. Jiang Yao had no choice but to gather her courage and tactfully remind him.

That night, the room was dim.

The tall man pinned her between his thighs and held her captive in his arms, his voice lazy and deep. "Didn't we agree you'd stay by my side forever?"

She: "..."

The next day, Jiang Yao got her wish: she couldn't get out of bed.

Only when Jiang Yao's legs and lower back were aching did she suddenly realize that things weren't going quite as planned--

She might have... taken her performance too far.

Note: [Explicit content], the male lead has skin hunger.

Theme: Take your fate into your own hands.