As Bitter as It Is Sweet

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Ruo Ku loves making desserts, but she doesn't like eating them.

Yi Cheng loves eating desserts, but he doesn't like making them.

At first, Yi Cheng fell for Ruo Ku's desserts and wanted to take her home to be his personal pastry chef.

Later, he fell for Ruo Ku herself and wanted to trick her into coming home as his wife.

*

Yi Cheng loves sugar more than life itself. He thought nothing could be sweeter than dessert, until he met Ruo Ku.

He wondered to himself, "How can someone with such a bitter name be so damn sweet?"

Sweet enough to melt his heart.

*

Everyone said no one would want Ruo Ku. Her own cousin even mocked her for spending years chasing after a man, only to settle for some useless "cook" as her boyfriend.

But in the blink of an eye, her cousin's boyfriend, the CEO of a publicly listed company whom she was so proud of, was bowing and scraping before the "cook," fawning over him in front of everyone.

Only then did they learn that this "cook" was Yi Cheng, the untouchable founder of the Yi Group.

And Ruo Ku was the woman he cherished in the palm of his hand, protected in the depths of his heart, and would never let anyone else touch.

She was never an unwanted spinster. She was the lucky star of his life.

Reading guide:

A scumbag second male lead tries to win back his ex, but fails.

Cozy domestic life and a sweet little romance.

A story of a timid Cinderella and a hot-tempered prince saving each other.

"In my eyes, you shine so brightly."

A sugar-loving male lead x a timid, sweet female lead

-- Upcoming title: "After Faking My Death, I Was Locked Away in a Dark Room." Please add it to your favorites!

A deadly love triangle from the start, surviving by taking risks. Here's the blurb:

A mischievous, flirtatious wife who transmigrates into a book x a sinister, loyal villain with a System

Wu Qing transmigrates into the book as the villain's fiancee, and she's the kind who cheats on him.

When she opens her eyes, she's holding the villain's important documents and meeting with the male lead. If she gives the documents to him, the villain will suffer a devastating blow. A month later, once the villain uncovers the truth, he'll take revenge on her and leave her with a gruesome fate.

Tears in her eyes, she stares at the real documents she was just about to hand over. Under the male lead's expectant gaze, she decisively pulls them back.

These aren't documents. They're her life!

"I'm sorry. These documents are fake."

Her eyes redden. "He forced me, but I don't want to hurt you."

She doesn't dare offend either the male lead or the villain.

After placating the male lead and sending him away, she decides to save her own skin by leaving and putting the documents back where they belong, as if nothing happened. But when she turns around, she sees the villain staring at her with a sinister look.

Wu Qing: "..."

According to the original story, the villain shouldn't be here.

But thinking of how wisely she'd acted, she feels she's in the clear. Then the villain asks, "When did you find out the documents were fake?"

Wu Qing: "..."

After a moment's silence, she asks, "You tell me first: when did they become fake?"

Villain: "..."

*

Later, Wu Qing dies saving the villain.

The good news is that her soul returns to her own body. The bad news is that her body has transmigrated into the book.

Even worse, the villain goes mad over her death, and when she appears before him with the same face as Wu Qing, he locks her away in a dark room.

Her: "..."

I ran away, got caught, became my own replacement, and got locked in a dark room.

"Maybe the book I read was fake."

"The plot has gone completely off the rails."

"This is hilarious. No one told me before I transmigrated into the book that the villain came with a System!"

-- Upcoming title: "I Transmigrated into the Kingdom of Beauties with a Makeup Bag." Please add it to your favorites!

From a country girl to The Outcast, here's the blurb:

The Kingdom of Beauties values fair skin above all else, and beauty reigns supreme.

Fang Shuyu, a top makeup artist, works herself to death. When she wakes, she's become the ugly girl known throughout the surrounding villages of the Kingdom of Beauties.

The girl is weak-willed, hated by her parents and bullied by her relatives. She got lost in the mountains and died, leaving Fang Shuyu to open her eyes lying in a ravine, with no one to answer her cries for help.

Luckily, her desperate will to survive really does summon a dark-faced hunter.

The hunter is cold, and his heart is colder still, yet he's so captivated by her eyes that he loses his senses, takes her home, and refuses to let her go.

What can Fang Shuyu do? The hunter is exactly her type, so she might as well make the best of it.

The villagers tease that the hunter can't find a wife and the ugly girl can't find a husband. Not only are they equally ugly, they're equally poor, with barely enough to fill a bowl between them.

But who knew the hunter had a fortune? To spoil his wife, he builds a brick-and-tile house in the village in no time, and they live more lavishly than even the wealthy city folk.

Some people grumble that if the hunter is rich, how could he still fancy that ugly girl? Surely he'll change his mind.

But the "ugly girl" they talk about grows fairer by the day, and soon becomes the city's most sought-after makeup artist. Her astonishing makeup skills leave even the nobles in awe.

The villagers start saying the young wife is quite a catch, and the hunter won't be able to keep her.

As the days pass, the couple's child is born. The ugly girl grows ever more beautiful, yet never loses her love for the hunter.

Later, the hunter and the former ugly girl stand side by side in official robes at court. Everyone calls them a perfect match, a talented man and a beautiful woman, made for each other.

Fang Shuyu knows in her heart that without the dark-faced hunter protecting her, she could never have achieved what she has today.

Everyone can see how splendid her life is now, but how could they see the deep-rooted love her husband has for her?

Theme: Embrace a beautiful tomorrow