Marrying My Ex's Uncle

Novel blurb: (Completed)

Just a second before Jiang Xiao pushed her love rival down the stairs, she suddenly awakened to the truth: she was a cannon-fodder supporting female character in a melodramatic rich-family novel.

Her role was simple: be the male lead's dog while serving as a foil for the female lead, then meet a miserable end after committing every imaginable evil.

Jiang Xiao: ...?!

Is there still time to save me?

After failing to save herself, Jiang Xiao received a mission from the System: latch onto the villain's popularity and change her fate of dying as a cannon-fodder after straying from the main plot.

Fine, she was supposed to get close to the villain, right? Easy.

Jiang Xiao knew exactly what she was doing.

Later,

System (collapsing) (screaming) (twisting) (brooding) (crawling) (squirming) (going crazy) (blushing) (weeping): When I said get close, I didn't mean like that!

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Zhou Qishen, the head of the Zhou family in Beicheng, was a refined, roguish man. Young but ruthless, he was a business tycoon adored by countless people.

Sadly, he married young and was completely henpecked.

At a business dinner one time, a partner happened to notice that President Zhou's bank balance was a pitiful three digits. He even had to call his wife to reimburse him for dinner.

Someone couldn't help asking his assistant, "How can President Zhou be broke?"

The assistant wasn't at all surprised, and even sounded proud: "All of President Zhou's money is with the boss lady."

That's right, all of it.

He'd even had a lawyer notarize it: a voluntary gift, not to be reclaimed.

The female employees sighed enviously. "President Zhou's wife is so lucky."

Hearing them, Zhou Qishen smiled warmly, a rare sight. "I'm the lucky one for being able to marry her."

No one knew how, through countless nights and days, he'd yearned for his own nephew's girlfriend.

Fortunately, in the end, he got what he wanted.

***Bonus Scene***

One day, after drinking, Zhou Wenting remembered all the good things about his ex, Jiang Xiao. Tipsy, he went to her home and saw her nestled in a man's arms, wearing a qipao and radiating irresistible charm.

Unable to contain his jealousy, he roared, "Who gave you the nerve to seduce my uncle?"

Zhou Qishen looked up through the wisps of smoke and replied calmly, "I did."

Beneath his loose bathrobe, conspicuous love bites ran down from his neck, disappearing into the depths.

Zhou Wenting suddenly understood: everything Jiang Xiao hadn't given him, she'd given to his uncle.

Reader's Guide:

Glamorous, spoiled actress vs. refined, possessive tycoon who loves throwing money around

Partially set in the entertainment industry, a short, sweet romance. The System doesn't play a major role. One-on-one, both leads have only ever been with each other.

Blurb revised 2024.3.13

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Blurb:

Zhou Yuanbai was handsome and dignified, born to an eminent family and famous from a young age. From the moment he entered government service, he rose steadily through the ranks. A heaven-blessed prodigy, he was praised by all for his gentlemanly bearing.

But no one knew that his favorite thing was to sneak into his "sister-in-law's" bedroom late at night, bind her with his belt, hold her jade-like feet, and listen to her beg in soft, tearful pleas.

On the chaise longue, the man gripped her chin in his rough palm, forcing her to look into the bronze mirror before them. His thin lips drew close to her snow-white neck, covered in red marks, as he laughed coldly and said, "Look carefully. Do you know who I am?"

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Jiang Nanxu was breathtakingly beautiful, radiant and lively, a rare beauty in all the surrounding villages. But she came from a poor farming family, with parents who neither loved nor cared for her. At best, she could hope to marry a wealthy merchant.

She refused to accept that. She was determined to marry into a prominent family.

Ever since she was young, she had known how to use her charms. A little coaxing could get the village scholar to teach her to read, the butcher at the village entrance to give her an extra pound of meat, or the peddler to throw in a couple of extra hair flowers...

Later, she charmed her way into the marquis's estate and became the heir's beautiful concubine. But the man who came to her room every day was...

He had leverage over her, so she could only let him take her every night, without restraint. But gradually, her belly began to swell. What was she going to do?

[Reading Guide]:

1. [Delicate, soft-hearted and scheming beauty x Strong, ruthless and obsessive power-wielding official] One-on-one, both leads have only ever been with each other. An alternate historical setting, not to be scrutinized for historical accuracy.

2. Includes groveling, coercive seduction, and other melodramatic plotlines. Don't read if that's not your thing.

3. The heroine is not a traditional good person. She is determined to climb the social ladder and puts her own life and interests first.

4. The hero seems gentle and refined, but is a beast in fine clothes: obsessive, unhinged, and no good man.

5. This blurb was written sometime in the summer of 2022. I don't remember exactly when, and it has been revised.

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