I Would Cry for Her

A collection of bad-woman stories, with five stories in total. I may add more if inspiration strikes while it's being serialized, but there will never be fewer. Each story is about 100,000 words. The summaries are included in the blurb, so feel free to read whichever one you like.

[Story 1: Who's the One Without Dignity? Liang Youning x Xu Qiao]

Liang Youning has never been a dignified woman.

Over the past few years, she's acted as Xu Qiao's guardian and done all the things a “mother” would do, such as accidentally opening the diary her “daughter” forgot to lock away.

Just as Xu Qiao wrote in her diary, Liang Youning is tall and long-legged, with a lovely voice and a beautiful face. They say she comes from a family of scholars. Xu Qiao's father is dead, and Liang Youning never married him, so she's lost her only flaw, too.

But she's a woman with a somewhat mean streak.

She's beautiful, and she uses that beauty as bait. She enjoys how easily she can win people's hearts. This time, her target is the girl who's her daughter in name only: awkward, inexperienced, and eagerly offering up a heart full of sincerity.

Liang Youning finds it even more fun.

[Story 2: A Crazy Screenwriter and a C-List Actress with More Passion Than Talent, but a Sturdy Constitution (Ming Chan x Ye Tinglan)]

Agent: Are you sure you want to “work with” Ming Chan? There's really something wrong with her.

Ye Tinglan: But I'm a C-list actress the internet calls “the industry's kiss of death, and she'll be playing a mom in two years.” If I don't make it big now, I'll never get another chance.

So Ye Tinglan starts carrying out the private arrangement she's made with Ming Chan, only to discover that there's really something wrong with her. At first it was exciting, but it gradually became dull. Ye Tinglan got bored, and Ming Chan didn't keep her promise. It turns out they'd both been acting all along.

Ye Tinglan gets so angry that she has a huge fight with Ming Chan and says their arrangement is over unless Ming Chan apologizes.

Ming Chan is unexpectedly reluctant to let her go. Pretending to be calm, she says, “Get down on your knees.”

Ye Tinglan freezes. “Huh?”

Ming Chan: “I'll apologize, but you have to kneel while you listen.”

To her surprise, Ye Tinglan's eyes sparkle. She drops to her knees, twisting her hands together, and mutters softly, “You should've said you were into this kind of thing.”

Ming Chan: “...So you thought I was too normal before?”

[Story 3: The Real and Fake “Heiresses” Among Ordinary Folk (Fang Sui x Wen Song)]

Fang Sui has finally returned to her birth parents, but she's cold and distant, and finds it hard to fit into the family. Wen Song has nowhere else to go, so she stays with the family at the urging of her adoptive parents. Feeling guilty toward Fang Sui, Wen Song does her best to smooth things over between Fang Sui and her parents, and is willing to do anything for Fang Sui.

Thanks to Wen Song's efforts, the two grow closer, and Fang Sui reconciles with her parents. Wen Song is happy. Until she and Fang Sui grow so close that no one dares to date her or even befriend her... Only then does Wen Song realize that from the day Fang Sui came home, from the moment the two first met, the only recompense she ever truly wanted was the cheap little sister standing right in front of her.

But it's already too late. Fang Sui has her trapped for good.

[Story 4: Fake Sisters of a Wealthy Family (Zhuang Xu x Zhuang Ling)]

Zhuang Xu has a rare blood type. Zhuang Ling, who shares her blood type, is her younger sister in name only. In truth, she's just a source of spare blood for emergencies.

They grew up together, and Zhuang Xu treated Zhuang Ling incredibly well. Zhuang Ling feels unworthy of that kindness. When she realizes she's in love with Zhuang Xu, she despises herself even more and decides to leave the Zhuang family. But then Zhuang Xu suddenly faints at home.

After that, whenever Zhuang Ling tries to leave, Zhuang Xu immediately faints. Again and again, she acts out the melodramatic scene of running after Zhuang Ling at full speed, then collapsing into her arms, saying in a frail voice as if she were on her deathbed, “Xiao Ling, I'm so dizzy and weak. Am I about to die...?”

Like someone on her deathbed getting one last burst of energy, Zhuang Xu drags Zhuang Ling to bed and bites her neck, thoroughly satisfied.

Zhuang Ling: Is this how you use a blood donor? Sis, did you get the wrong vampire script...?

[Story 5: To Be Added]

Note: The story is tentatively scheduled to begin serialization at the end of March.

This blurb was updated on January 25, 2024.

Theme: Work hard, become a better version of yourself, and meet better people.