The Moonlight Stand-In Doesn't Want to Rise to the Top

Blurb:

Duan Zhaoran transmigrates into a book, becoming the tragic stand-in heroine in a melodramatic xianxia novel.

The male lead, Zhao Jingyuan, has a beloved in his heart, but she died young. To remember her, he found three lookalikes. Duan Zhaoran is the first stand-in, and the one whose features most resemble his beloved.

From the start, she's framed for having an affair. Stand-in number two, who is also the heroine of the book, pretends to offer her a pill so she can prove her innocence. In reality, the pill is poisonous and will prevent her century of cultivation from advancing.

The male lead, Zhao Jingyuan, doesn't trust her either. He coaxes and pressures her: "To prove your innocence, please cooperate and endure this for a little while."

Thinking of the miserable fate awaiting her, Duan Zhaoran flies into a rage. "There's no need. The person I love isn't you. It's your master, Immortal Venerable Yuan Chen."

She's done being a stand-in for his beloved. Whoever wants to take her place can do it!

Freed from the original plot, Duan Zhaoran hurries down the mountain and, along the way, saves a handsome young sword cultivator.

The young sword cultivator is exceptional in looks and character, elegant and refined, brilliantly talented, and highly skilled. He's half a cultivation world better than the male lead. Other than being a little poor, he's perfect in every way.

Duan Zhaoran is very pleased. This is the perfect choice for a Dao companion, so she pulls out every trick in the book to win him over.

Later, the male lead regrets everything. Unable to let go of Duan Zhaoran's face, which is seventy percent similar to his beloved's, he comes after her. "Zhaoran, come back. I'll become Dao companions with you and give you the status of a proper wife."

Duan Zhaoran smiles sweetly and casually pulls the handsome, poor young sword cultivator close. "Meet my future Dao companion."

The male lead looks horrified and says respectfully, "Master..."

The other man's cool gaze is imposing. "You think you can call Zhaoran by her name? Have some manners. Call her Master’s wife!"

Duan Zhaoran is stunned. Her handsome, poor young sword cultivator... is the aloof Immortal Venerable Yuan Chen, bright as the moon in the heavens? The male lead's master?

Heaven and earth can bear witness: she just made that up on the spot!

Coming soon: The Qing Dynasty: The Trials of a Beloved Concubine

After waking up, Meng Siyu, who had transmigrated to the Qing Dynasty many years ago, unexpectedly gains a memory that lets her foresee the future.

In the future, her parents will marry her off to a local scholar to pave the way for her elder brother. The scholar will then offer Meng Siyu to various officials, trading her beauty for his own advancement. Later, the scholar will rise rapidly through the ranks, and the Meng family will prosper along with him. Only Meng Siyu will perish in a sea of flames, her life cut short.

At this moment, the scholar is doing everything he can to trick her into attending a banquet, while the lecherous officials already see her as theirs.

She turns her jade thumb ring, smiling faintly. "Gentlemen, does Fourth Master know about this?"

Everyone looks at the rare jadeite ring and panics. "..."

Using the name of an "old acquaintance," Meng Siyu bluffs her way past them and escapes unharmed.

But as soon as she turns around, she runs into the one person she doesn't want to see.

Yinzhen had thought that when he reunited with Meng Siyu, he would humiliate her to repay her for abandoning him after leading him on. But when he sees her surrounded by enemies, his heart softens, and he blurts out, "Would you be willing to come with me?"

At least he can protect her and give her a worry-free life, which is better than becoming some scholar's wife!

Meng Siyu falls silent. The future Yongzheng Emperor is incredibly petty. Is he planning to take her back and get revenge?

Later, Meng Siyu enters his household as a Han Chinese girl and gradually becomes a gege, a side consort, and an Imperial Noble Consort, enjoying his favor without end and earning the envy of others.

Meng Siyu: Being a beloved concubine is so hard! He really did have bad intentions!

Emperor Yongzheng: Being a beloved concubine is hard? I had bad intentions? You infuriate me! Make her Empress, the mother of the empire. I'll prove myself!

Please support my friend Zhu He’s new novel, The Laid-Back Life of a Drama Queen Couple.

Ye Congyi and Xie Yuancheng are a young married couple, famous throughout the court. Deeply devoted to one another, they spend half their lives working tirelessly to strengthen the emperor's reign, only to lose their lives to a cup of poisoned wine because of his suspicions.

Luckily, Heaven takes pity on them, and she and Xie Yuancheng are reborn.

This time, Ye Congyi doesn't want to handle everything herself and do all the work for someone else's benefit. Xie Yuancheng feels the same.

On their wedding day, the couple raise their cups and exchange a smile. "To hell with being regents. We're done!"

Collect their salary while feigning illness, stay out of court politics, take paid leave, and travel the world. What's not to love?

[The resourceful, firm yet gentle female strategist VS the laid-back, wife-fearing husband]

Theme: Cut your losses in time; too much of anything is harmful.