The Villainous Tycoon's Darling

[Coming soon: The Pretty Female Doctor on a Seventies Island. Please add it to your reading list.]

Blurb:

Xu Jiayao transmigrated into the body of a cannon-fodder supporting female character.

In the original novel, the Xu family's business failed, and they used Xu Jiayao as a pawn, sending her to the side of the major villain, Lu Huaixuan.

Lu Huaixuan was cold and solitary by nature. Everyone around him met a bad end.

After waking up in a hotel, Xu Jiayao chose to run away.

But disaster struck: a speeding car hit her and sent her flying.

When she woke up again, Xu Jiayao had become a toy doll inside a gift box. By a twist of fate, she was left behind in Lu Huaixuan's room.

Lu Huaixuan noticed on the security camera that a little something had appeared in his room. It bathed in his teacup, slept on his pillow, stole his handkerchief to make clothes, and hid cookies in his wardrobe...

Before he knew it, watching what the little thing did each day had become his favorite pastime outside of work.

But one day, the little thing stopped running around and making a fuss. It curled up in a corner, barely alive. Lu Huaixuan panicked, rushed home, and gently held it in the palm of his hand.

In fairy tales, a princess kisses a frog, and the frog turns into a prince.

Lu Huaixuan wondered: if he kissed the precious little thing in his palm, could it turn into his bride?

Bonus scene:

"Hello, dear viewers! Welcome to Jia Jia's Adventures in Giantland livestream. Today's adventure is a garden expedition. First, let's summon our divine mount."

A fluffy white Samoyed appeared on camera, its head three times the size of the host's entire body.

The livestream chat erupted in astonishment.

Then the big dog obediently lowered its head to the ground, letting the host climb onto it.

The host shouldered a livestream pole thicker than her waist, patted the dog's head, and shouted with great gusto, "Let's go!"

[Coming soon: The Pretty Female Doctor on a Seventies Island. Please add it to your reading list.]

Blurb: Lin Chenxin, a promising young doctor, transmigrates into a novel set on a seventies island about a military wife raising children. She becomes the cannon-fodder foil who turns her back on a comfortable life in the big city and insists on following the male lead to live on a barren, remote island where not even birds lay eggs.

The original heroine is hardworking, kind, virtuous, and patient. Not only is she the male lead's capable partner, she also raises his three fallen comrades' children with great difficulty, eventually winning a happy life that everyone envies.

By contrast, Lin Chenxin is spoiled, lazy, and greedy. She wants to compete with the heroine over everything, and after making a mess of her life, she ends up hated by everyone.

After reading the plot, Lin Chenxin thinks: Is the seafood not tasty, or are the handsome young men not handsome enough? Why would anyone be so desperate to become someone else's stepmother?

So:

While the heroine works herself to the bone washing clothes and cooking for the whole family, Lin Chenxin is comfortably directing a handsome young officer to help her carry water and plant vegetables.

While rebellious, willful children make the heroine's life a complete mess, Lin Chenxin sits peacefully in a rocking chair, drinking tea, reading, and eating snacks she's made herself.

While the heroine has to support three children on the male lead's salary, pinching every penny until it hurts, Lin Chenxin carefully picks out abalone and giant lobsters from the boats just back from fishing.

Lin Chenxin thinks she's doing a pretty good job as the foil...

She takes leisurely walks on the beach, feels the sea breeze, listens to the waves, flirts with handsome men, eats seafood, and helps the locals with headaches, fevers, bumps, and scrapes. Once she gets used to this easy life, it's actually quite lovely.

Shen Yan is true to his name: fiery and hot-tempered. He was sent to the island because he refused to follow orders, but he thrives in this vast new world.

Still, he can't understand how a fine young man, free-spirited by nature and born to be wild, could end up meeting Lin Chenxin, his natural nemesis, and getting tamed into an excellent bricklayer, carpenter, farmer, and chef.

Oysters, scallops, giant lobsters, sea snails, crabs, and golden abalone. This woman may be spoiled and demanding, but she sure knows how to eat. Ever since he met her, the dull island life has become colorful and full of flavor.

Bonus scene: A storm rages through the night. In the island's only operating room, poorly equipped as it is, Lin Chenxin's heart wavers in the gale as she faces the gravely injured Shen Yan.

Shen Yan takes her trembling hand, his gaze firm. "Lin Chenxin, I'm putting my life in your hands."

Theme: Never give up trying, no matter what hardships you face.