After Clinging to the Corpse King's Leg, She Decided to Lie Flat

[Recommended to wait until it's complete before reading. The blurb for the upcoming The Villainous Dragon After Being Tamed is at the end. Please add it to your collection!]

When Jiang Yunmiao wakes up and realizes she's transmigrated into a ghost story as a coffin-born daughter, she wants no part of it.

In the original novel, the coffin-born supporting character is the heroine's walking blood bank. To repay the family for taking her in, she willingly feeds the heroine her blood for nine years. But once she's no longer useful, the family drains all her blood and gives it to the heroine. The supporting character dies with her blood completely drained, and even her ghost is beaten into oblivion by the male lead.

As soon as Jiang Yunmiao understands her situation, she packs her things and sneaks away. But she accidentally gets lost in the forest. Just then, she meets a handsome man dressed all in white, who gazes at her with clear, bright eyes and speaks softly: "You smell... so good!"

Jiang Yunmiao assumes he must have caught the wrong scent and doesn't think much of it. She even figures he's lost too, and suggests they travel together so they won't be alone.

Then night falls, and the person beside her turns his black eyes pure gold. She trembles and drops to her knees on the spot.

She almost forgot: in this book, coffin-born blood is a delicacy to ghosts and monsters. She never imagined she'd run into the story's only golden-eyed zombie villain in broad daylight, a creature feared by both humans and ghosts.

The villain still gazes at her with cool, clear eyes, the tips of his fangs just visible by his lips. "Could you give me a little blood?"

Jiang Yunmiao raises a trembling hand. "You want to drink my blood? Just... go easy on me."

The man leans closer, seeming thoughtful. "Is that okay?"

Later, Jiang Yunmiao and the villain become each other's blood banks. He's addicted to her blood, and she's addicted to his. What's more, she successfully leads the once-innocent villain astray...

He Lianshuang has spent thousands of years detached from worldly desires, cold-hearted and indifferent. Then one day, he meets someone who smells delicious. At first, he only wants to drink her blood. Later, he wants to hold and kiss her forever.

The greedy old zombie starts craving the woman he loves.

-- [Upcoming: The Villainous Dragon After Being Tamed] --

-- "Sis, he's dead. Now no one can compete with me for you. You can finally look at me, right?"

-- "Mingwei, you don't understand love at all."

These are the last words the heroine of Autumn's Farewell says to the villain before she takes her own life while pregnant with the male lead's child. They turn a story that should have had a happy ending into a tragic one. The one responsible is the villain Gu Mingwei, who abducts the heroine in the second half of the book.

Gu Mingwei is the younger brother the kindhearted heroine took in. In truth, he's the only young lord of the Black Dragon Clan, who went missing. He's obedient and sweet in front of the heroine, but ruthless behind her back. He can't stand seeing anyone else in her eyes. So after the male lead appears, he secretly sabotages him again and again. When he can't split the couple apart, he forcibly keeps the heroine by his side and kills the male lead, ultimately driving her to take her own life.

Qin Ning hates him most of all when she reads the book. If he hadn't forced the leads apart later on, the married couple expecting a child would soon have had their happy ending. Perhaps she is so furious that she transmigrates into the book, becoming a cannon-fodder supporting character from the same sect as the heroine, whose father is the sect leader and who acts like a spoiled brat.

In the original story, this character mostly serves to bully the hardworking heroine through romantic rivalry. Later, Gu Mingwei secretly gets rid of her, and she dies without a trace.

But Qin Ning arrives early, before the heroine has found Gu Mingwei. Thinking of all the terrible things he'll do later, she finds him before the heroine can.

If he likes forcing others into things so much, then she'll make him experience what it's like firsthand.

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At first, Gu Mingwei really is a little lamb in disguise. No matter how she treats him, he pretends to be weak and harmless. But she can see the deep, hidden hatred and malice in his eyes. Qin Ning knows he's wild and isn't afraid of him. Instead, she slowly gets him to show his true nature, baring his teeth like a fierce dog. When he's good, she patiently pets him. When he's displeasing, she casts him aside like trash.

Only after the vicious dog's gaze has completely left the heroine and he has truly become docile does she let him go.

Unfortunately, the vicious dog she thought she'd tamed still bares his claws at her. He abducts her, and she thinks the events from the original story's second half will now happen to her instead of the heroine. But she never expected the dog to bind himself up and carefully touch her fingers with his tail, gazing at her in humble desperation as he begs, "Ningning, please... love me."

Only then does Qin Ning understand: he's still a vicious dog, but he's willingly placed the leash in her hands.

[The story of a heroine who only wanted the male lead to learn what happens when he forces people into things, but accidentally tames a vicious dog/dragon.]

[Warning: Male lead fans beware! The male lead will probably suffer a lot! Neither lead is a particularly good person.]

Theme: When you have something to hold dear, nothing can frighten you