My Villainous Husband Awakened, but I Just Want to Be a Widow

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Lin Qian transmigrated into the villain's side of an entertainment-industry romance. Her husband, Lu Wei, had been in love with the heroine for years. When his love went unreturned, he finally snapped and tried to kidnap her and do something unspeakable. The plan went awry, and he was hit by a car and killed.

He left behind a mountain of debts. The original owner was devastated, suffered a mental breakdown, and died young after a lifetime of misery.

The newly transmigrated Lin Qian laughed like she could die. Get rich, get rich, and have my husband die? How could anything be this perfect? Please, just let me be a widow!

*

After marrying Lin Qian, Lu Wei awakened to the entire plot in a dream.

His childhood friend Shen Xinyue came with a lovestruck-brain buff, while his childhood pal Ye Fan truly had incredible luck.

Shen Xinyue and Ye Fan were the story's hero and heroine. Whenever Lu Wei got near them, he couldn't help acting like an irrational simp.

Lu Wei was embarrassed and flustered. Why have I gotten so stupid?!

But Lu Wei realized that as long as he was near Lin Qian, he could stay clearheaded.

He immediately headed to the variety show Lin Qian was appearing on.

He ran toward her like a drowning man reaching for a lifeline.

Lu Wei: "Wifey, come cuddle! Let me cling to you!"

...He didn't get a chance to finish saying "and borrow your buff" before Lin Qian slapped him across the face.

Lin Qian was cool and dismissive, with a hint of disgust. "Stay away from me, you pervert! Don't drag me into this!"

Lu Wei: ???

I was waiting for my wife to save me, but I look like a joke.

*

After transmigrating into the book, Lin Qian not only landed the life of a rich society wife, but also got bound to a Fame System.

The System told her that to change the original owner's death ending, she had to reach a certain fame score before the bad ending.

As it happened, the original owner had signed up for a dating show to fill in for a producer friend.

The male contestants, numbers one through four, were all handsome in their own ways.

But Lin Qian was hated by the whole internet, and every interaction she had got her viciously abused.

Watching her fame score soar, Lin Qian's eyes lit up.

Fame could be positive or negative. Being infamous was still being famous!

So Lin Qian flirted with the first male contestant, teased the second, and sent her confession text to the third. The only one she kept at arm's length was the fourth: her uncontrollable, perverted husband...

Lin Qian said coldly and with restraint, "Mr. Lu, please behave yourself."

Everyone thought Lin Qian had seriously offended Lu Wei, the powerful investor, and waited to see her make a fool of herself.

Instead, they caught Lu Wei staring fixedly at Lin Qian, his eyes suddenly red.

After a long while, he choked out, "Qianqian, what is it you don't like about me? I'll change. I'll change right now."

Everyone: ???

Lin Qian had assumed the whole internet would hate her until the show ended, and that she could get enough fame from all the insults. But halfway through the show, the netizens' attitude took a sudden turn.

Netizens: This woman is incredible! *sob* Please teach us, sis! Stop looking at those awful men and look at us instead! Hurry up and give us more content!

Lin Qian: ...?

I'm enjoying life as a pretty widow. Rich, happy, and unbothered. Don't @ me.

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Blurb: Jin Manman transmigrated into a collection of old-school, dim-witted CEO novels. Every surname was Lin, Su, Gu, Shen, Bai, or Lu; the stories were packed with brainless plots, including one woman having N babies, all of which could never be restrained by the laws of physics. Her job was to be the personal assistant to CEO Gu Nanjiang.

Jin Manman's daily tasks included reciting lines:

"You'd better leave. Mr. Gu won't see you."

"I haven't seen Mr. Gu smile in ages."

"Mr. Gu's stomach condition is acting up. Miss Lin, could you come see him?"

She also had to perform money-throwing routines:

"Mr. Gu says to take this money and go as far away as possible. Don't come back."

"Actually, I'm employed by Mr. Gu's mother. She asked me to give you this check. Go as far away as possible and don't come back."

"Mr. Gu says this money is to buy your son from you!"

Every day, Jin Manman felt like her intelligence was being insulted!

Then every night, the exhausted CEO would rub his temples and scold her for being heartless. He'd actually drive away the woman he loved and slap a severance check for five hundred thousand dollars in her face. Only then would Jin Manman bow shakily and leave.

"Yes, Mr. Gu. It's all my fault. I'll leave right now."

What kind of dim-witted CEO was this? He was a walking money dispenser!

*

On her first day after transmigrating, Jin Manman recalled the plot: land in the East District development zone would skyrocket in value; a movie starring an unknown actor, who would later become a film emperor, would be a hit; and the imperial-green jade rough that the hero and heroine threw away during an argument could be picked up for a bargain.

While the CEO and his beloved acted out their usual chase, with her fleeing and him pursuing until she had nowhere to run, Jin Manman stood on the top floor of a luxury apartment in the city center, gazing down at the night view. Her account held more than 180 million dollars, and beside her lay a signed acquisition contract worth over twenty billion.

Jin Manman gave a cold smile, with one part nonchalance, three parts indifference, and five parts mockery.

"Hmph. Being a CEO isn't all that impressive."

*

Gu Nanjiang was reborn.

In his previous life, he'd bought eleven nuclear bombs and set them off as fireworks to make the woman he loved happy.

This time, he touched his head and felt a little itchy, as if he were about to grow a brain.

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