The next book is I Swapped Bodies With Someone Today. Its blurb is at the very bottom.
Couple: a hot-tempered young master x a woman who’s left the martial world, but whose legend lives on
Blurb from the male lead’s POV, main story from the female lead’s POV
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During a business trip abroad, Qin Yi accidentally discovers that his contract wife is hiding a secret.
In a huge theater in Pattaya filled with trans performers, in a dim alley where the red-light district meets the slums, a fruit vendor points to Yuan Sijia’s photo in his wallet. With a greasy expression, he speaks in broken Chinese:
“This girl, two years ago, young and beautiful, very famous here. One day, many people came, then she disappeared.”
No wonder Yuan Sijia is so frail and sickly, with beautiful eyes that seem lifeless and skin so pale it looks unhealthy. Even in the sweltering summer, she refuses to take off her long sleeves.
Whenever a man comes near her, she panics and trembles.
She doesn’t dare go out alone.
She resists going abroad for their honeymoon.
Once, Qin Yi tried to hold her hand. Beneath her long sleeves were vicious purple bruises.
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For two years, they treated each other with courteous distance.
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Then Qin Yi’s grandfather passed away, and their contract marriage came to an end.
He watched in astonishment as Yuan Sijia suddenly stopped acting weak. She could hang thirty meters above a cliff on a safety harness and swing a staff like a pro.
He watched her go on a rural variety show, slaughter three hundred chickens and ducks in a day, and plow two acres of land on top of that.
He watched her spot kidnappers snatching a child, leap out of a car, sprint eight hundred meters at full speed, and take down two kidnappers with a single kick.
They met again at a charity gala.
After a long silence, Qin Yi asked, “I heard that you used to, abroad…”
Yuan Sijia: “Yeah. I fought in underground Muay Thai matches. I could beat two guys like you at once and make three million.”
Qin Yi: “…Why did you come back?”
Yuan Sijia: “Oh, I lost a turf war.”
A little extra:
Much later, Qin Yi attends a dinner, busy looking after their child. He watches helplessly as she chats and laughs with the investors, then downs ten bottles of liquor and knocks everyone at the table out.
He misses the delicate, gentle figure she used to be, white dress fluttering in the breeze. “Why did you change so drastically?”
Yuan Sijia: “I got so tanned from Muay Thai that I had to cover myself in powder and wear white to hide it. I was afraid people would make fun of me.”
1. A devoted couple, both each other’s one and only.
2. This story has no typical domineering CEO, so don’t mistake Qin Yi for one. He’s just a peacock of a young master who steals his wife’s hairspray.
3. Qin Yi: “My wife hasn’t smiled in a long time.”
Next book, I Swapped Bodies With Someone Today: blurb
After years of trying for a child, a wealthy couple finally welcomed their only daughter, Qiao Yuan.
Raised in a life of luxury, she had parents who would have plucked the stars from the sky and the moon from the river for her. They successfully spoiled her into a willful, overbearing heiress.
One day she’s watching a fashion show in Paris, the next she’s sketching under a bridge. After winning a math competition, she takes up painting. When she enters a beauty pageant and suspects the results are rigged, she hand-codes her way into the system and declares the ugly cat downstairs the rightful winner.
And then she makes her parents clean up her messes.
Then she discovers that she was switched at birth in the hospital.
Her parents’ biological child is an exceptional young man who made it from a remote mountain village to the capital. His features are strikingly similar to her mother’s.
The real heir is more capable than she is, better suited to inherit the family business, and, as a man, better able to carry on the family line.
Even her wealthy fiancé, a perfect match by family background, senses the way things are going and breaks off their engagement at once.
Kicked out of the house with her belongings in a woven plastic sack, Qiao Yuan is then hit by a car.
When she opens her eyes again, she has swapped bodies with her opportunistic fiancé.
To show the board of directors her respect, Qiao Yuan gets battle-ready nail art, spritzes on a man-killer perfume, and makes a grand entrance in a power suit with a siren-like silhouette.
The next day, the whole internet knows that the second son of the Fu family has gone crazy.
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Qiao Yuan swaps bodies with the real heir for the second time.
His friends ask him how he used his status to break into the highest social circles and win over a rich heiress.
Qiao Yuan: “I studied the innocent-yet-sultry look to climb the social ladder, used blood ties to meet A10 big shots, and transformed my down-to-earth look into a stunning one. That’s how you get big results. It’s all short-term dating, the Odyssey period, and meritocracy. All I can say is, talent is a cruel thing.”
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Qiao Yuan swaps bodies with her younger brother from her birth family.
…Forget it. She’s used to this by now.
The kid throws a fit about wanting to study abroad, even though the dowries for his three older sisters aren’t enough to cover his tuition. He rolls around at home, making a scene, so Qiao Yuan takes out five million in shady online loans to make his wish come true.
Of course, she does it using his face.
Theme: Marriage is not a woman’s only source of worth