A Wicked Woman Always Has a Deadbeat Haunting Her [Period]

[Complete] [Paragraph comments are open. Feel free to dive in!] The "Golden Phoenix" of Tonggan Production Brigade has actually flown back! Everyone thought the youngest son of Captain Li, who had gotten into university, would be assigned a job and stay in the city. No one expected him to return as an educated youth and help build up the countryside. Overnight, he became the most sought-after young man in the brigade. Young and promising, with a bright future, and still single. Zhong Ying was one of the young women who looked on with envy, but unlike the others, she was bold enough to act on her ideas. She plotted to get the "Golden Phoenix" to join her in staging a drowning accident. But she hadn't counted on the river's hidden currents. Her plan to force him into marriage didn't just fail: she ended up killing the male lead. No, to be accurate, neither of them made it out alive. The person who opened her eyes now was no longer the original Zhong Ying. Zhong Ying, who'd died from working herself to death: ...Good news: I'm alive again. Bad news: I've transmigrated, with a murder charge included. Damn it! Everyone else transmigrates with a romantic debt, so why did I get a death debt? And in the novels, didn't plotting to drown someone, save them, and then marry them have a hundred percent success rate? Never mind... I'll just make do. Could I die one more time, at least? Yes, she could. The one coming to collect his debt, her life, showed up without warning. An arm, cold and hard as raw iron, suddenly clamped across Zhong Ying's neck and pulled her against a chest damp and cold with river water. The suffocating sensation of drowning crept over her as his grip tightened. The male ghost behind her pressed close to her ear, his words seemingly intimate but full of bitter menace. "Didn't you want to marry me? I've come to take you as my bride." "Take you as my bride"? More like "take your life"! "Wait!" Zhong Ying, who still wanted to live a little longer, struggled with all her might. "I... I'm a ghost too, a ghost possessing a corpse. We're the same kind!" Li Linshi didn't like Zhong Ying. Her eyes revealed her shallow, blatant scheming: she was interested in his looks, wanted to become the captain's youngest son's wife, and wanted an easier job. And now she claimed she was a ghost too? Lazy, greedy, sly, stupid, vicious, and a liar. Li Linshi didn't like Zhong Ying. But since she wanted to marry him, she could come along with him on his journey to the afterlife. First, he wanted to see what other tricks she had up her sleeve. He watched her with a sinister, cold gaze. But the more he watched... the more it seemed like the Zhong Ying before him really had a different "core" inside her. Li Linshi just never expected to hear those fateful words again. "I still want to marry you." Li Linshi could hardly believe it. But he was already dead. #Even as a dead ghost, he's still being forced into a relationship #Even as a ghost, I won't let you go #In life you're mine, in death you're my ghost #Can you really keep pestering the same person like this #Let ghosts have a voice Reader's Guide: 1. Set in an alternate world. Tonggan Brigade is at the foot of Yingshan Mountain in a parallel timeline. 2. The male lead is thoroughly dead, a real male ghost, and there will be some supernatural elements. 3. The female lead isn't simply possessing a corpse and taking someone else's place. See how the story unfolds. 4. Absolutely no cheating. 5. In a sense, I think this counts as marriage before love. 6. The female lead takes the lead, in every sense. 7. Everyday life building up the countryside. The female lead will have a clear career arc. 8. No children. They would mean nothing to the male and female leads. 9. I'm working hard to cook up a story, but if you find something triggering, I'm truly sorry! I really don't mean to offend! But it seems like your triggers and mine aren't the same. If you don't like it, feel free to drop the story. Please don't yell at this fragile cook (sob). 10. They're both villainesses, so this may not suit readers with strong moral sensibilities or those devoted to the male lead. If anything makes you uncomfortable, feel free to close the page and leave at any time (bow). Theme: Women should keep striving to rise.