The Villainous Couple Refuse to Follow the Plot

[Print edition titled Cloud Ripples, with over 9,000 additional words in the extra chapters.

Blurb:

Both transmigrate into a book and become a tyrant and his bewitching consort [Gentle Male Lead x Vengeful Female Lead]

Shen Qinglian transmigrates into an angst novel as a cannon-fodder villainess.

According to the plot, in five years the tyrant's rule will be overthrown. The tyrant will hang himself in the Hall of Supreme Harmony, while she will be branded a bewitching consort and burned to ashes in a great fire.

After entering the palace, she is sent to the imperial bed.

The tyrant, Gu Tanyun, is just as the book describes: handsome and wickedly charming. But then an accident happens, and she accidentally blurts out a curse.

Gu Tanyun stares at her, his expression impossible to read, then suddenly says, "Odd changes, even stays the same."

Shen Qinglian is petty and vindictive. After transmigrating into the book, she has to play a timid, helpless crybaby.

Gu Tanyun is a gentle, good-natured young man. After transmigrating into the book, he has to play a cruel, depraved, wickedly arrogant last emperor.

Shen Qinglian: "If anyone bullies me from now on, you have to help me get revenge!"

Gu Tanyun: "If the plot tells me to kill someone, you have to stop me!"

They hook pinkies and reach an agreement.

Shen Qinglian counts her points, then counts Gu Tanyun's, and sighs miserably. "We're still 132 points short of skipping this plotline."

Without his tyrant makeup, Gu Tanyun's features are gentle and refined. He takes her hand and smiles. "If we can't skip it, then we'll fight our way through."

Reader's Guide:

Both transmigrate into a book, an alternate world, both are devoted to one another

Coming soon:

After the Fluffy Cat Catches the Eye of a Beautiful, Tragic Man

[An obsessive male lead who wants to destroy the world after falling to darkness x a laid-back female lead who wants everyone to become a couch potato]

Jiang Mianmian transmigrates into a world of cultivation and becomes a terrifying beast.

Not long after arriving, she scares a child into tears. Cultivators then capture her and lock her away in a forbidden area behind the mountain.

Jiang Mianmian thinks the place is picturesque and makes a wonderful den.

Some time later, the person guarding the forbidden area dies, and a particularly pretty young man takes his place.

The young man is short on money.

Remembering the story of the fisherman and the genie from One Thousand and One Nights, Jiang Mianmian teases him: "Just let me out, and I'll give you a hundred thousand top-grade spirit stones."

Xie Mingye refuses, saying he will never release a fearsome beast like her to wreak havoc on the world.

Later, Xie Mingye shares the joy of forming his golden core with her.

She stands up and strikes a fearsome pose. "So what if you've formed your golden core? Let me out, and I'll help you rule the world."

Xie Mingye smiles faintly and shakes his head again.

After that, he doesn't come back for a very long time. When she finally senses a familiar presence entering the forbidden area again, about a hundred years have passed.

Jiang Mianmian delivers the lines she's prepared long ago.

But the young man she remembers is now spattered with red, his eyes devoid of their former warmth, and several heads dangling from his hand.

He tosses them aside in disgust and gives her a faintly mocking smile. "I accept. Let's go wreak havoc on the world together."

Jiang Mianmian: ??

Forced out of the forbidden area, Jiang Mianmian cries out in despair: "I was just saying that! I don't want to leave!"

Over the years, she's made her little den lovely and comfortable.

Jiang Mianmian just wants to lie flat in the forbidden area, not wreak havoc on the world.

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