The Scummy Alpha Is Just a Substitute

This novel will be entering VIP serialization on Wednesday, 8/30, with a 10,000-character update that day. Thanks so much for your support~

Next novel, coming soon:

1. "Hajimi Makes a Living and Supports Her Family in the Modern World" (A delightfully goofy comedy, and my number-one most-wanted-to-write project. Please add it to your favorites!)

2. "The Miserable Emperor Only Wants to Abdicate" and "Her Highness the Princess Has the Male Lead's Script" (Two delightfully goofy historical GL novels)

Reader's Guide:

1. A younger, scummy Alpha and an older, aloof doctor Beta.

2. The scummy Alpha has to win her wife back.

3. Melodrama and a wealthy family.

4. The characters aren't perfect. One is stubborn and refuses to say what she means; the other says the opposite of what she thinks and is stubbornly tsundere.

The unserious blurb:

Zhou Shutong meets a gorgeous older woman at a bar. She's top of her field, stunning, and even the way she gets angry and gives Zhou Shutong the cold shoulder hits her right in the heart.

Zhou wants to sleep with her, but the woman only wants a one-night stand.

Later, Zhou turns on the charm, acts sweet, and plays the puppy. The woman likes a gentle approach, and before long, she wants to keep sleeping with Zhou forever.

Zhou gets carried away. She even laughs at the woman's old-fashioned desire to get married. And because Zhou's feelings are so hard to see, her loose talk wears down the woman's patience and affection.

When the woman turns to say goodbye, Zhou tells herself she's only upset because she can't stand losing. She pursues the woman relentlessly, only to discover she was just a stand-in for the woman's first love?!

The serious blurb:

After her longtime crush, an upperclassman, becomes her sister-in-law, Jiang Wanqiu gets drunk at a bar after the engagement party.

Half-drunk and half-conscious, she is approached by a woman who looks remarkably like the person she loves. Years of suppressed feelings surge under the influence of alcohol, and the two spend a wild night together.

What begins as a brief fling soon turns into a twist of fate. That woman acts sweet and clingy, and Jiang can't get rid of her!

She's fun, knows when to push and when to back off, can act cute and sweet, and most importantly, she's great in bed.

At some point, the face of the woman who used to appear so often in Jiang's dreams gradually changes into the one before her. Jiang falls deeper and deeper, only to hear that woman speak in a cold, distant, mocking tone to someone on the other end of the phone: "Oh, Dr. Jiang? We were just having fun!"

The Zhou family is powerful and influential. Zhou Shutong's father keeps a respectable, beautiful Omega wife at home, while carrying on with countless mistresses outside. And there are more illegitimate children than anyone can count.

As the only legitimate heir, Zhou Shutong is exposed while her enemies lurk in the shadows, so she has no choice but to return to China for a while and lie low.

Lying low is only temporary. She puts on a playboy act, but gradually finds herself lost in Jiang Wanqiu's attentive care and affection.

Who wouldn't love a gorgeous older woman who only has eyes for them?

But somehow, the woman suddenly starts making snide remarks and even calls her a dog.

The woman wants to end things. Zhou feels awful, but tells herself she just can't stand losing.

Later, she shows up uninvited at Jiang Wanqiu's brother's wedding. There, she sees a bride who looks a little like her, and her girlfriend gazing at the bride without looking away. Zhou laughs in fury.

On the balcony outside the banquet hall, the Alpha's fierce pheromones spread without restraint.

Zhou Shutong smiles darkly, like a venomous snake. "Baby, you said there was someone you had a crush on, but you never said she looked like me. What is this? Am I your stand-in?"

Jiang Wanqiu gives a soft laugh, her voice as cool and distant as the unattainable beauty she was that day. "Yes. What else did you think? If I don't like her, does that mean I like you?"

Melodramatic stand-in romance plus a desperate quest to win her back

"Hajimi Makes a Living and Supports Her Family in the Modern World"

A sweet, clueless kitty cat and an easily worked-up, explosive little writer. Hilarious everyday antics and the entertainment industry.

On the first day Tao Ran comes out to her family, it's her twenty-eighth birthday. She gets blackout drunk with her friends and even cooks the shop's pothos plant, thinking it was a vegetable.

On the second day after coming out, she discovers that the stray cat she brought home has turned into a person: a young, beautiful woman who's not too bright, insists on sitting on Tao Ran's lap, and watches her use the toilet. A pervert.

The pervert says she and Tao Ran made a contract a week ago. Tao Ran thinks it over, and finally remembers: a week earlier, her novel had ended in a flop. With her meager 200-yuan fee, she went to a cat cafe to pet cats. Then there was the 2-yuan bus fare, 30-yuan coffee, 200 yuan to pet the cats, a cat bite, 500 yuan for rabies shots, and a taxi driver who ripped her off, taking the long way and charging 67 yuan extra.

Right, got it. This broke, weird cat still owes her 799 yuan!

Tao Ran's resolve to kick her out softens. First, she's going to make the little pervert pay back the 800 yuan for her shots!

So, on the fifth day after the little pervert comes home, she finds a job as a supermarket cashier. Then she can't figure out the bills and sneaks some dried fish, ending up owing 1,287 yuan.

On the tenth day after she comes home, the little pervert finds a job pretending to be a snow leopard at the zoo. Then she injures the snow leopard and ends up owing 2,700 yuan.

On the twentieth day after she comes home...

Tao Ran's already poor life takes an even worse turn.

Tao Ran asks a friend to find the little pervert a job as an extra in a TV drama, playing a mute courtesan who's all beauty and no substance.

At last, Tao Ran has a chance to get her money back, so she goes to pick the little pervert up.

On the way, while they wait for the bus, Tao Ran tells her to call out when the number 13 bus arrives. Then she leans against an advertising board and sleeps until late at night.

When she wakes, Tao Ran lets out a long sigh. She wants to get angry, but the little cat has worked hard, and she feels a bit softhearted. "You need to understand that sleeping at home isn't the same as sleeping outside. When I tell you to wake me, just do it. Don't be afraid of disturbing my sleep!"

"I wasn't afraid of disturbing you." The little pervert stands perfectly straight, her gaze calm and resolute. "A member of the imperial family must never let others easily see what she likes or dislikes!"

She pauses, then blinks her clear eyes and kindly explains, "I can't let the number 13 know I'm waiting for it. Do you understand, mortal?"

Tao Ran: "…"

The street is deserted. The orange streetlights and Tao Ran's solid smack land squarely on the little pervert's head, which is packed as tightly as concrete.

Extra scene 1: The day after Tao Ran discovers the cat wants to sit on her lap while she uses the toilet, her sister-in-law comes to visit. In a panic, Tao Ran shoves the cat into the closet. Her sister-in-law, who was planning to sneak her some money, opens the door and comes face-to-face with the cat, who's dressed in a highly inappropriate outfit.

Sister-in-law: Shock! I've opened my sister-in-law's closet twice in one week. What am I supposed to do now?

After a long silence, she asks in a strained voice, "Who are you?"

The cat looks perfectly innocent, blinking as she imitates Tao Ran's way of speaking. "I'm a pervert."

Her sister-in-law looks at the cat ears on her head and the tail behind her. Her inner thoughts: Well, that's obvious!

Extra scene 2: The writing lesson

After acting in a show once, Tao Ran decides to teach the cat to write so she can improve her cultural literacy. Half an hour later, Tao Ran finally loses it. "Can you sit up straight and write properly? Look at your handwriting! It looks like a dog walked through it!"

The cat looks aggrieved. "But I walked through it carefully!"

Tao Ran: "…"

Tao Ran: "I want you to make it look nicer!"

The cat answers with perfect confidence. "But dog tracks are ugly. What does being careful have to do with it? Let me try cat tracks instead. I'm much better at those than dogs are!"

Tao Ran: ...Quick, someone summon Buddha!

Theme: Be sincere with one another, and your bonds will last.