The Widow Targeted by a Monster

The eldest young master of the Yong family has a fiancée who is like a ghost. Everyone in their circle has heard something about her, but no one has ever actually seen her. The little that is known about her is simple:

From childhood, she was chosen by Yong Yan, a cold-hearted, pathologically cruel man. Like a princess snatched away by a dragon in a fairy tale, she was kept in a hidden castle. No one knows what kinds of twisted torment she has suffered at the hands of that madman over the years.

At the Yong family's century wedding, everyone finally saw her face.

From then on, whenever words like beautiful, elegant, gentle, and refined were mentioned, the only person who came to mind was a woman named Qing Dai.

Who could let go after being lucky enough to glimpse such a treasure? The cold, the unruly, the arrogant, the rule-abiding, all began to stir.

The dragon was no longer the only obstacle. They forgot all about ethics and morality, and, as if they had lost their minds, tried every possible way to create another chance to see her.

Sincerity works wonders, and there were so many sincere people. At last, there was good news: Qing Dai, who seemed to have vanished after the wedding, made a public appearance once more, at...

Yong Yan's funeral.

Two pieces of good news at once.

The treasure had resurfaced, and this time there was no dragon in the way.

Alone and helpless, surrounded by wolves, every person who coveted her knew how vile, dark, and twisted they were. They did not dare hope to become her knight. They only wished she would lower her eyes and grant them the title of her loyal dog.

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Qing Dai learned from the System that her world had grown out of a horror novel. In the future, more and more people would turn into terrifying monsters.

Qing Dai was not surprised. It explained perfectly why she had lately felt greedy eyes watching her from the shadows, why she heard strange breathing on her bed after turning off the lights, even though there was no one else in the room, and why she sometimes found strange slime and gorgeous scales nearby.

A monster had its eyes on her. What should happen next was just like in the book: after Yong Yan died, she would nearly be devoured by a monster. After a lucky escape, she would latch onto the male leads and do whatever it took to seduce them.

But...

The plot seemed to have gone wrong at some point.

When was it?

As Qing Dai pondered the question, she set down the bloodstained knife in her hand and looked up at the enormous display tank filled with formalin. Her husband's fresh corpse floated inside, and tenderness shone in her eyes.

Monsters, plots: none of that mattered anymore.

What mattered was that she was about to create the specimen she would be most pleased with.

Reader's Guide: The male leads are all nonhuman. The female lead is the only human.

Here are two upcoming novels:

Upcoming Novel 1: Who Exactly Am I a Substitute For?

Qian Qian transmigrated into a book. Because her body rejected the new world, she fell ill, and her illness was severe and complicated. She showed symptoms of cognitive impairment, delusions, and amnesia.

Specifically, she would mistake an abstinent, unfeeling stranger for the lover she had known and loved for years. She would mistake a violent, cold-blooded man for a pure-hearted object of flirtation, and an unruly, flamboyant man for someone she wanted to seduce.

Even when her illness took hold, she was still herself: distant and cool, showing a different side only in front of