My Ex-Wife Has Changed Her Identity

My other book, Her Highness Rises to the Top, is now available! Also known as The Palace Maid's Rise!

[Book Blurb]

Li Shuse transmigrated into a book, becoming the vicious ex-wife of Shen Qiao, the great villain of an old-fashioned melodramatic novel who did every evil imaginable.

In the original story, this cannon-fodder character existed to turn a boy as bright as the moon into a villain stained with countless lives and hated by everyone.

She used him, abandoned him, had an affair with someone else, and even tried to kill him.

In the end, Shen Qiao held his newlywed princess bride close as they watched his ex-wife get... torn apart by five horses!

Knowing her fate in advance, Li Shuse shuddered. Rule number one after transmigrating into a book: staying alive is what matters most!

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Li Shuse thought long and hard, and finally came up with a way to save her own life:

Be a dutiful ex-wife, and the moment the time is right, divorce him, split the money, and run!

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Shen Qiao noticed that his new wife had recently changed her ways.

Before, she used to say that poor families could never produce great men, and that no golden phoenix would emerge from a mountain ravine.

Now, she said that all other pursuits were inferior to studying, and that her husband would surely pass the highest imperial exam and make something of himself.

Before, she had been entangled with the landlord's son from the village, leaving plenty of room for gossip.

Now, when that foolish young man came to see her, she sternly turned him down, saying her husband would get jealous if he saw.

Before, she called him by his name and never missed a chance to sneer at his poor background.

Now, she called him "husband," her eyes full of hope that he would pass the exam.

He had never known her to say "husband" so sweetly. Every call sank straight into his heart.

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Li Shuse knew that the day Shen Qiao married the princess would be the day she died.

So she began putting on a show. "I hear princess consorts have a miserable time, worse off than ordinary men."

The young man crouching in front of her didn't even look up as he asked, "Why?"

She continued to scare him. "They have to pay their respects to the princess every day and follow all her rules. And at night, they have to wash her feet."

The young man grabbed her foot, which was splashing around in the water, and suddenly looked up. "Is that so?"

Li Shuse: "..."

Come to think of it, washing someone's feet had nothing to do with whether or not you married a princess...

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