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Zhuang Zhiyao is a brainless villain in a no-romance novel.
She has committed countless evil deeds. Even though she is as breathtakingly beautiful as a wilting rose, she is still a character hated and reviled by countless people.
One day, space and time went haywire, and the no-romance and romance channels merged.
The good news: The Space-Time Bureau discovered the situation and is working overtime to repair it urgently.
The bad news: Villain Zhuang Zhiyao was left behind in the romance channel.
Neither good nor bad news: There is also a Zhuang Zhiyao in the romance channel, with the exact same name.
Fortune favors the bold, and evil grows bolder with every step.
Zhuang Zhiyao not only took the original owner's place, but also lied and pretended to be a rich widow.
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Word spread throughout Jiang City. People heard that the Shen Group had brought a country girl back from the mountains, and that she'd made a fool of herself at the Shen house on her very first day.
The Shen family had lost a son years ago. Who would have thought he had been abducted to the mountains and married there? Before long, he died, leaving behind a poor young wife. That wife was this very country girl.
The country girl was nasty and greedy, and she wasn't even related to the Shen family. Everyone thought it was only a matter of time before she was kicked out.
As it happened, country girl Zhuang Zhiyao thought the same. She planned to make a quick buck and run, using every wicked trick she'd picked up in no-romance fiction. She practically had "bad woman" tattooed on her forehead.
She waited and waited, but the Shen family never kicked her out. Instead, her little stash kept growing.
The Shen family's usually composed, handsome eldest son pulled Zhuang Zhiyao into a corner and shoved a bank card into her hand without ceremony. His gaze burned as it stayed fixed on her face. "Zhiyao, you need someone to rely on while you're at the Shen house. You don't want people picking on you, do you?"
The aloof younger son tried to lure her into the studio with an expensive necklace, then turned his flushed face away, too shy to look at her. "Sister-in-law, it's not easy to stay at the Shen house. If you just ask me, I might be able to help you..."
Their handsome adopted son claimed they were in this together. "It's hard living under someone else's roof. Only the two of us can truly understand each other. You can only trust me at the Shen house."
Every one of them carried himself with an air of refined elegance, yet their eyes were feverish, their infatuation impossible to hide.
Zhuang Zhiyao's no-romance brain thought: Great! I'll save up one more big haul, then run.
She waited and waited again, only to see her "dead husband" return.
Everyone in the Shen family wept with joy, while the man gazed at this beautiful "wife" who had appeared out of nowhere, his eyes deepening.
Zhuang Zhiyao: "..."
You really shouldn't get too greedy. Heaven wants me dead! There's a ninety-nine percent chance this no-romance villain is doomed!
After that...
After that, the Shen brothers started fighting.
Zhuang Zhiyao: "...Huh?"
Is this how romance people do things?
Theme: Cherish life