The Actress Gu Is a Total Wife-Obsessed Lover

[Down-and-out heiress turned working stiff bottom vs. peacock-flirting movie-star top]

[Rekindled romance + showbiz]

[The bottom used to be a sunny little ray of sunshine, but now she's sensitive, insecure, and pitiful.]

[Important: This story follows two timelines in alternating chapters. The Red Bean arc takes place in the present, while the Childhood Sweetheart arc is set in the past. Feel free to skip the one you don't like.]

Yu Wei saw Gu Lingzhou again at a reunion with their high school classmates.

The girl who had once been poor was now a dazzling, household-name movie star.

But after Yu Wei started college, her father lost everything on the stock market and his company went bankrupt.

The heiress princess had fallen into the mud overnight. Facing her old classmates' greetings, Yu Wei looked sorrowful and said, "I've been divorced three times, have four kids, and work five jobs a day. My main job is handling divorce cases, and I buy formula with the emotional-distress payments from my ex-husbands."

Her classmates looked awkward, and the conversation soon turned to Gu Lingzhou, whose fame was on the rise.

After a few words, the mood lightened again. One classmate teased, "If divorce cases are your main job, Weiwei, what about taking on the big star Gu? Didn't she once confess her love to you in the auditorium, crying her eyes out?"

As soon as the words left their mouth, the very person who had cried her eyes out came through the door. Gu Lingzhou's cool voice rang out over the click of her high heels: "I don't like women."

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Gu Lingzhou didn't like women. No one knew that better than Yu Wei. Back then, Yu Wei had chased after her relentlessly and even spent a fortune to make a film about two women with Gu Lingzhou.

The expected romance between co-stars never happened. After filming wrapped, Gu Lingzhou avoided Yu Wei like the plague.

Yu Wei, whose crush had twisted her into a pretzel, finally burned through her impulsiveness. Even though she still felt a stir in her heart, she had learned to keep her feelings under control.

When Gu Lingzhou warned her again in the restroom, Yu Wei nodded obediently.

"Don't worry. I'm busy taking care of the kids these days. I don't have time to get in your way."

Yet the next day, before dawn, the famous actress arrived at Yu Wei's door bundled up and carrying bags upon bags of things.

"Formula, clothes, diapers." She had bought enough for four, and the pile looked like a mountain. Gu Lingzhou set it down with a sigh of relief, then added, "I'm only doing this because we're classmates. Don't get the wrong idea. I don't like women!"

Yu Wei: ...I can tell.

Yu Wei: You just want to experience the joy of raising kids!

[She has a niece, not children, plus two cats and a dog who are all little terrors]

Coming soon: Fuzzy Little Things Aren't Little Teases

A socially anxious manga artist x an illiterate fuzzy creature (little devil edition)

Bai Shuangshuang is a little calico cat, feline family, cat genus, cat species.

Then one day, in some year and some month, the little calico unexpectedly cultivated a human form.

From then on, the good days of her owner earning money for her to spend were over.

Kitty had to get a job and earn money, but before that, Kitty had to get up early and stay up late to go to school.

She had to learn the basics of human society and how to imitate humans.

Most importantly, Kitty absolutely mustn't let humans find out that she was a cat.

Besides all that, she had to obey the countless house rules Tao Ran had laid down.

1. If Kitty wants beef, she can buy some at a restaurant. She mustn't catch it herself at the amusement park.

2. Kitty mustn't follow the neighbors around calling them Mom and Dad, and she definitely can't call them that and then steal a chicken drumstick from their pot. Stealing is still not allowed.

3. TV dramas are fake. Kitty mustn't accuse people of poisoning her, especially when a silver needle is stuck into a black sesame tangyuan.

4. Kitty mustn't copy her classmates' homework, let alone beat them up if they refuse to let her copy, even if they're dogs.

5. Kitty mustn't eat the pothos, spider plants, or money trees in hot pot restaurants. Not even if they're cooked, and especially not pour the cooked soup into a money tree.

6. Kitty mustn't beat up her coworkers at the zoo...

Human society is awful. Everywhere you look, there's something you're not allowed to do.

Humans aren't awful. Tao Ran is one of them~

But Tao Ran actually refuses to admit she's Kitty's girlfriend. Kitty gets mad, Kitty runs away from home, and Kitty even gets threatened with being made a defendant if she doesn't come back.

Kitty is aggrieved, Kitty is sad, but luckily Tao Ran admits who she is.

Fine, Tao Ran is only a tiny bit awful. Kitty supposes she can forgive her.

The stray cat Tao Ran brought home turned into a human.

On the first day she became human, a group of monsters claiming to work for the Bureau of Demon Affairs came to register her.

After registration, Tao Ran became Haki Mi's guardian. She had to help Haki Mi with her schoolwork, teach her about everyday life, help her learn to communicate with humans without revealing her identity, and support her as she adjusted to human society.

Tao Ran felt as if she had become a mother without going through childbirth. On the first day she sent the cat to school, she asked her when she got home, "What are your classmates like?"

The cat said, "They're all different. Some are greasy, while others are really fresh."

Tao Ran nodded, about to remind her to keep clean, when the cat continued, "Some are soft and chewy, and others are really crispy."

Tao Ran: !!!!!!!!

"You went to school, not a cafeteria!"

After studying for a while, Tao Ran sent Haki Mi to take the Bureau of Demon Affairs' cultural assessment, her heart full of worry.

Before the results came out, a child who had come with them tried to reassure her.

"Don't worry. In the past, communities were isolated, so it was easy to notice strangers in the neighborhood. Now everyone lives online, and everyone's a little crazy. You can't even tell if someone is a monster. The exams have been made much easier to match."

Even with the easier exam, Haki Mi scored three points.

Out of 150.

Tao Ran: "Apricots are the fruit of ginkgo trees? Peaches are the fruit of walnut trees? Didn't Director Hu emphasize these common trick questions over and over? You didn't remember a single thing?"

Haki Mi held her tail straight up and looked innocent. "...I vaguely remember him talking about it."

Tao Ran laughed angrily. "What can you remember clearly?"

Haki Mi looked utterly sincere. "I clearly remember not listening while he was talking."

Tao Ran: "..."

Dear heavens, when will the hard days of helping this kid with homework finally end?

Bonus scene:

Because Tao Ran refused to be her girlfriend, Bai Shuangshuang angrily ran away from home.

When Tao Ran returned to an empty house, she quickly called to ask where she was.

Tao Ran: "Where are you?"

Bai Shuangshuang scoffed. "What, now that I'm gone, you finally realize the house feels empty? Anyway, I'm not coming back unless you let me be your girlfriend. Figure it out!"

Tao Ran took a deep breath. Seeing the completely empty wardrobe, bathroom, kitchen, and living room, the veins at her temples throbbed.

"Listen, running away from home and stealing everything in the house are two different things. If you don't come back right now, your new name can be Defendant!"

A world where humans and monsters live together

(The first few chapters will be revised when the novel launches.)

Coming soon, book two: When Will the Princess Come Out?

A clingy cat princess x a tsundere, laid-back woman who says one thing and means another

Zhaoning fell into the water one day, and when she opened her eyes again, she was a thousand years in the future.

She met a wonderfully kind person who let her stay and eat for free, and took her out to enjoy good food and fun things.

But this kind person's family was poor. Her carriage had no roof, and her kitchen didn't have a single thing, not even firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, or tea. Every morning, she could only fill her stomach with bitter, astringent black soybean milk.

Zhaoning gave her the only green jade hairpin she had left, hoping she would sell it to improve her life.

Later, when it seemed there was no hope of transmigrating back, Zhaoning felt the pressure of life bearing down on her. Behind Song Yuan's back, she worked diligently in the fields and sold goods, eventually saving a little money.

Then one day, after an argument, she took the cat and left home without looking back.

Song Yuan hurried to catch up with her.

The princess flew into a small rage. "Were you following me?"

Song Yuan: "Could it be that I got a charge notification?"

Zhaoning: "Nonsense! I have my own money. I used my own account!"

Looking at the balance in Zhaoning's account on the screen of her phone, for the hottest full-dive farming game around.

Song Yuan: "..."

No wonder the character's name was her real name.

On Song Yuan's eighteenth birthday, a severely injured, unconscious woman inexplicably appeared in her home.

The woman was dressed in a soaked ancient-style outfit. When she woke up, she said her name was Zhaoning and that she was from the Tang dynasty.

Song Yuan naturally didn't believe her ridiculous story about transmigrating. She suspected the woman had an ulterior motive and had been sent by people from the old estate.

She played along with Zhaoning, and after observing her for several days, she took out a contract in the study to test her.

Zhaoning took the paper. Her expression shifted from relaxed to grave, from grave to livid. Finally, unable to hold back any longer, she threw the paper onto the table and delivered her verdict: "Hideous!"

Song Yuan looked at the contract bearing her own signature, her gaze shifting from scrutiny to suspicion, then from suspicion to ice-cold disbelief: "..."

Song Yuan: I really hate people with no sense of boundaries.

And yet this person with no sense of boundaries kept breaking through her limits, time and again.

Smart home assistant robot 275: Miss hasn't been this happy in ages. You're done for, you've fallen in love~

Love? What a joke!

Putting on an act with her? That was just to get her to talk!

Taking her shopping? That was just to stimulate her memory!

Sleeping in the same bed? That was an actor's professional responsibility!

Seeing through her lies but still deceiving herself? That was putting the greater good first!

Buying a detached house with an indoor pool because she wanted to learn how to swim? The deed had her name on it!

What? She wants to keep her distance? And she ran away from home?

Song Yuan's face turned icy as she rushed to the small hotel with her driver and bodyguards.

Her gleaming shoes struck the creaking wooden floorboards. Song Yuan strode in, her jaw tense and her aura cold and hard.

The next second, her eyes turned red. She took off her scarf and strode to the princess, wrapping the warm, soft fabric around her cold hands, layer by layer.

"You can kiss me. Just come home, okay?"

Bonus scene:

The princess wanted to earn money, so in addition to selling her calligraphy, she took a part-time job teaching Song Yuan calligraphy.

After several months of lessons, she asked Song Yuan, "After the imperial examinations in June, are you planning to become a calligrapher?"

Song Yuan coolly lowered her eyes and dropped her brush. "No."

The princess breathed a sigh of relief. "Thank goodness. Otherwise, I'd have to call the police."

Song Yuan was both embarrassed and angry. "Is it really that bad?"

"No," the princess said, shaking her head. "There's not the slightest sign that you've ever studied it."

Song Yuan: ...

What do I do if my wife has caught my sharp tongue? Asking online, it's pretty urgent.

Theme: Stay positive and keep improving, every day.