The Country Girl Who Tried to Marry Into Wealth: Book Transmigration

Cool, stoic country girl x heir from a prestigious family

1999, the final year of the century.

The old era had come to an end, and the new one had yet to arrive. A century’s-end breeze swept through the rice paddies, ruffling the hair of Li Cuicui as she worked. Along with the other farmers in the fields, she watched a black car drive into the village, and memories she had ignored and forgotten began to stir.

She remembered that she was a doomed supporting character in a novel set in a bygone era: a country girl who thought the world of herself but had nothing to show for it, who didn’t know her own worth and dreamed of marrying the wealthy male lead to live a better life.

This summer, Chu Bosheng, the young master from the city, would return to the family estate in the village to recuperate. She was eighteen that year, and the country girl fell in love at first sight with the pampered, handsome young master from the city.

Despite the obvious gap in their status, she carefully approached him, driven by her feelings, and treated him well. She saved up osmanthus cakes and chestnut candies, treats she could usually only enjoy during the New Year, and gave them to him.

She would never know that the young master looked down on her. He didn’t turn down her gifts, though, because they were the only amusement in his dull days of recovery. She would never know that the sweets she had scrimped to buy were cheap and shoddy. The young master thought they were filthy, and tossed them aside as soon as she turned away.

All she knew was that he accepted them, and that made her happy for a long time.

The following spring, a group of men and women from the city came to the village, claiming to be the young master’s friends. The lazy young master smiled more often when they were around.

The country girl would never know that among them was the young master’s fiancée. Nor would she know that they looked at her with disdain, and with the condescending scrutiny and amusement of their social betters.

Perhaps... she did know.

The following summer, the young master had nearly recovered.

Li Cuicui watched his luxury car leave the village.

She had no intention of changing the story. She also thought Heaven had let her know about it so that she would play her part properly. The country girl followed the plot in her mind as she understood it, and played out her own part of the script.

Afterward, she returned to the course her life had originally taken: helping her family with farm work, raising her little sister, and eventually finding an ordinary man like herself to marry.

Until winter came.

The young master who had left returned to the village through the morning mist...

[Next comes a stretch where the male lead acts like a dog and treats her like dirt.]

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Content warnings: My take on an old-school period romance, half sweet and half angsty, I suppose. The heroine is cold-hearted, wooden, and aloof. She has never liked the male lead; he falls for her first. The male lead is sexually inexperienced. His friends only assume he has a fiancée. Later on, it will probably involve forced love. The story takes place between 1999 and 2003.

Coming next: "Scum, Yet Incredibly Beautiful [Quick Transmigration]"

Blurb:

You are scum, so vile that even gods and men despise you. Vanity, hypocrisy, deceit, and sucking up to the powerful are the bare minimum. Betrayal, cruelty, and doing evil are your everyday routine.

You were created to be a villain. Evil is hard-coded into you.

[World One: Male-Oriented Urban Cultivation Doctor Novel]

To go to college, you plan to trick the disgusting loser next door, who’s always drooling over you, into dating you, then make him get a job and pay your tuition.

Of course, it’s all a lie.

You have no intention of staying with him. You plan to dump him as soon as you graduate and marry the rich second-generation heir you meet at college. You know exactly what you want, and you go through with it.

But no one would guess that this is a male-oriented novel about a man who transmigrates to a cultivation world, reaches the Great Dao, and returns to the modern world. Naturally, you aren’t the protagonist, much less the heroine. You’re the male lead’s cheating ex-girlfriend from before he transmigrated: you swindled his love and money, then cheated on him.

Naturally, you don’t get a happy ending. The male lead returns to his sophomore year, cuts off your allowance without hesitation, kicks you out of his rental apartment, and uses a few tricks to expose your true nature to everyone.

Your reputation is ruined, your dream of marrying into a wealthy family is shattered, and the damage you’ve done is so bad that your college career ends, too. In the end, all you can do is hide in a cramped rental apartment and burn charcoal to end your loathsome life.

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But when the Creator made you, they forgot to put a cap on your beauty. Born as the most stunning woman imaginable, you are vile, yet incredibly beautiful.

Male lead: A brooding, sickly, possessive harem-protagonist type who is abandoned by the heroine, transmigrates to a cultivation world, successfully ascends, and returns to the modern world.

He loved his wife before transmigrating, loved her after transmigrating, and loves her madly after returning.

After his wife swindles his money and his heart, cheats on him, and dumps him, he has to choose between strangling her and having his way with her. He picks the latter without hesitation, determined to have two children in three years.

Content warning: The male lead is loving, super loving, invincibly loving. He’s a hopeless romantic, an extreme hopeless romantic.

Please note: The author likes writing stories where villains get what they deserve, characters tormenting each other, and the vulgar trope of a fake sweet wife turning into a real captive wife.

[World Two: A Perverted Female Alpha]

You hit the jackpot: you have an 80% pheromone match with Garistin Cavendish, the empire’s young master. In this vast empire, where the average match is only 60%, an 80% match is enough to make you a match made in heaven.

Even though you were born in the lower city and graduated from an ordinary community college, the Cavendish family still finds you, and you and Garistin successfully register your marriage.

Your husband is a decorated Omega commander-in-chief. He is also the male lead of a popular interstellar ABO novel: born into privilege, devastatingly handsome, and an outstanding military strategist. Men and women alike adore him, oh, no... Alpha, Beta, and Omega. He’s a bona fide heartthrob, with admirers all over the stars, from commoners to aristocrats and even royalty.

Three hundred years after the movement for equal rights between Alphas and Omegas, he is the only son of the old and illustrious military family, the Cavendishes. He is the empire’s brightest star and its sharpest sword.

He spends most of his time on the front lines and has little in common with you, let alone any feelings for you. You married only because your match was strong enough for you to use your pheromones to help him recover when he was injured and get him through every irksome heat.

The trouble is, your husband is frigid and doesn’t like you. But you’re a young, virile Alpha, and even setting aside your rut, your own lust makes it impossible to tolerate a marriage where you’re barely together and nothing physical ever happens.

Unsurprisingly, a year after your husband leaves on a work trip, your disgusting, sleazy female Alpha nature can no longer be concealed. You start by seducing the young male Omega servants at your husband’s villa. They have slim waists and soft bodies, and because you’re a live-in son-in-law, the servants don’t dare report you.

You’ve clearly gotten a taste for it, and your appetite keeps growing. You even set your sights on your husband’s cousin, who comes to stay with you: a young master you assume is just the son of a wealthy family, but who is actually a little prince of the empire.

A lifetime-appointed Alpha judge, an Alpha speaker of the House, a rich young Omega. Your hormones are impossible to keep in check. You’re like a rutting pup, biting everyone you see. And it’s obvious you won’t get a good ending.

You’ve provoked people you shouldn’t have. Your sticky, stinking, disgusting, dirty, and leering gaze has offended a certain little prince of the empire. He wants to tear you limb from limb and gouge out your eyes to satisfy his hatred.

But... something seems to have gone wrong with the plot.

The young master who finds you utterly disgusting actually trembles when your sticky, foul gaze roams over his body. When you deliberately speak suggestively, he blushes. When you try to use your pheromones to control him, the dual SS-level Omega, two ranks above you, actually spreads his legs and calls you shyly, “Brother-in-law...”

And the prosecutor, the heir to a wealthy family, the judge, the speaker, the aristocratic young master... even your newlywed husband, who spends all his time on the battlefield and never pays you any attention, are acting strangely.

Note: The heroine is a live-in son-in-law, which is why she’s called “brother-in-law.” Of course, I know it’s a little illogical. I just like it, because when the second male lead calls the heroine that, it feels thrillingly taboo.

[World Three: Strange Tales]

A junior female researcher at the Federation Research Institute x a lizard monster male lead

You’re a female worker at the Federation Research Institute who climbed up from the bottom. Your low status and short tenure leave you at the very bottom of the pecking order. Though you’re a researcher, you’re always stuck cleaning, tidying, and serving tea.

Meanwhile, another female researcher who joined at the same time is treated completely differently. She can look at top-secret research data without permission and enter the core area.

All because she’s the daughter of a powerful family and the fiancée of your direct superior. So you come to hate your boss, his fiancée, who seems to have fallen for a lesser creature, and the ugly, lowly green lizard who’s always watching you.

Consumed by jealousy, resentment, and hatred for the powerful, you decide to kill three birds with one stone. A vicious, vulgar plan takes shape in your mind. If she likes that disgusting dead lizard, then why not put them together?

Your plan is simple: drug the imperial young lady and the dead lizard. Help them take the final step in their ethical relationship and achieve perfect romantic harmony. You’ll film the whole thing, preferably where the other staff in the experimental group can see it. You want to ruin their reputations.

You want your boss to be cuckolded, and you want the powerful people who look down on you to become a laughingstock throughout the Federation.

Your actions lead the male and female leads to cross that hazy line for the first time, and the naive monster realizes that it seems to have fallen for the heroine.

In the original novel, this is a pivotal turning point. Your wicked plan succeeds, but it also fails. Once the male and female leads have both taken the drug and it takes effect, the male monster catches the scent of you nearby, along with the malice you can’t conceal. Unfamiliar with human technology, the monster follows its animal instincts: it kills you, guts you, and eats you, then reaches perfect harmony with the heroine.

But... something seems to have gone wrong with the plot.

The disgusting, lowly green lizard breaks free of its chains and pounces on you. It doesn’t slash open your belly or throat. It tears open your work skirt!!! What is it doing!!! You realize something is wrong, but it’s too late.

You’ve done so much evil, and now you’re getting what you deserve!!!

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Content warnings: The male lead is a hopeless romantic. He’s a green lizard, and he looks a little disgusting, though he’s handsome when he turns human. As always, the author loves writing lowbrow stories where villains get what they deserve and wicked women are forced into being sweet wives.

[World Four: High School Ghost Stories]

[World Five: Wicked Wife]

[World Six: Perverted Older Female Professor]

[World Seven: Female Goblin (Corruption)]

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Please note: The heroine is genuinely evil and will act on it.

Content warnings: Various neurotic, dark, and perverted male leads who are madly in love with the heroine. Their feelings are intensely one-sided.

The heroine is extremely beautiful! A universally adored Mary Sue. She is not a kind and virtuous heroine, so please be cautious before starting. This is not a wish-fulfillment story or a face-slapping story, and it isn’t tagged as one, either.

The values in the story do not represent the author’s values.

Theme: Keep moving forward, even in desperate circumstances.