She Is the Male Lead's Wicked Aunt

[Take a look at my upcoming novel, A Guide to Surviving in a Dragon's Mouth. The blurb is at the very end.]

1.

A raging fever made Su Tan dream of her previous life.

In Junlin, the male lead, Mu Yancheng, was the reincarnation of a demon god. He lost both parents as a child and was sent to Cangwu Immortal Mountain as an orphan to be raised. The Goddess of Cangwu was his aunt in name only, a beautiful and vicious nine-tailed fox demon. Under the pretense of taking him in, she was actually coveting the Sacred Gu inside him, hoping to make it her own. At the same time, out of jealousy and hatred for the male lead's birth mother, she vented all her resentment on the innocent child, taking delight in tormenting him every day.

The first thing Mu Yancheng did after becoming powerful was slaughter everyone on Cangwu Mountain, then turn her into a fox-fur stole for good measure.

"The man stroked the fox fur draped over his shoulders, smiling as warmly as honey. 'Auntie, you'll never have to worry about your nephew catching cold again.'"

Countless readers cheered.

That is, they would have cheered even louder if the aunt with such a tragic fate hadn't been her.

2.

When she awoke from the fever, a little boy was kneeling at her feet.

The young male lead had just arrived at Cangwu Mountain. He looked as soft and pillowy as a little ball of dough, gazing at her with big, moist eyes as he timidly called, "Auntie."

Su Tan learned from her past mistakes, turned over a new leaf, and decided to raise the dark male lead into a sunny, upright young man.

She never imagined he would go astray down an entirely different path, never to return.

3.

After losing his parents, his aunt was the only person who treated him well, and he resolved to be a dutiful nephew.

Until one day, he accidentally witnessed a scene. The goddess-like aunt in his heart was draped across a man's lap like a boneless cat, speaking in a soft voice: "I treated that child well only to trick him into willingly handing over the Sacred Gu, so you could break through to the next cultivation level without a hitch."

He refused to believe it, until she personally cut out his spiritual root and sent him tumbling off a cliff.

Darkness swallowed the boy's heart, along with a desire unlike anything he had ever felt before...

If she had never truly cared for him,

then it was all right for him to be a little rough with her, wasn't it?

4.

The Demon God had returned, and this man, who had brought ruin to countless lives across the cultivation world, spent night after night at Cangwu Divine Mountain. People lamented that the Goddess had betrayed the Demon God, and feared she would suffer for it.

Deep within the palace where aunt and nephew had once depended on each other, the bells around the woman's ankles swayed softly.

Their broken, pitiful chimes made one's heart soften, and one's cheeks flush.

"Auntie." The man wound the bell chain around his fingers, his voice low and pleasant. "Tell me, am I being... dutiful enough?"

A proud, protective goddess who raises a child x a sweet-on-the-outside, dark-on-the-inside man who is Auntie's number-one fan

[Content warning!]

A melodramatic, angst-heavy novel. Every word of that description is guaranteed to be true.

Not a female-led novel, not a strong-female-lead novel.

One-on-one romance, both leads sexually inexperienced, happy ending.

(The romance begins only after the leads sever their familial relationship.)

A Guide to Surviving in a Dragon's Mouth

[Only wants to stay alive, man-eating sweet little flower x aloof and powerful dragon who is actually a little puppy for his big sister]

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Li Mian transmigrated into a book, and not just any book, but a post-apocalyptic world overrun by monsters, where life was bloody and brutal.

Her true form was a dragon, but she had been born weak and had no choice but to blend in with humans to stay alive.

Her luck was terrible. She had joined the protagonist's party, where the original story had her relentlessly seducing the male lead and provoking the female lead, only to have her identity as a monster exposed and be blasted into nothing by the couple's pure-love cannon.

The System told her: Go find your own kind! Then you'll gain power.

But nobody told her that her last surviving relative was Chi Xingyao, the ultimate villain and final boss of the original story!

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Unlike her, Chi Xingyao was a powerful demon dragon.

After the male lead trained to become the strongest human, he finally challenged this wicked dragon, only for Chi Xingyao to flick a finger and leave him in a vegetative state.

At the end of the story, the dragon stood atop the frozen world, gazing down at everything and finding life as lonely as snow. Then he killed himself.

And so humanity welcomed a new dawn.

She was the last female dragon, and Chi Xingyao was the last male dragon. It sounded like a romantic, fated encounter worthy of Adam and Eve.

But among dragons, males treated weak females as food.

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The Diary of Chi, the Little Dragon in Love

Today I met an older sister of my kind. I was surprised. I thought I was the only dragon left in the world. She disguised herself as a human and seemed a little afraid of me. I didn't tell her that her disguise was terrible. I could smell her lovely scent from ten li away.

Her scales are so beautiful, and her eyes are like stars. I grabbed her and flew high into the sky. For some reason, she screamed and shouted, "Don't eat me!" Who would eat her? I looked all around, but couldn't find any enemies.

Lately, I keep getting fevers. My face feels so hot, and I keep getting nosebleeds. My older sister says I'm about to reach adulthood. What does that mean? I don't understand. All I know is that my older sister's lips are so soft, and they make me want to kiss her.

My older sister's lips really are soft. But the rest of her is even softer.

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Li Mian finally understood that the big villain really did want to eat her.

Just a different kind of "eat."

One-on-one romance, both leads sexually inexperienced. Not a strong-female-lead novel, not a female-led novel.

Theme: Filial piety comes first among all virtues.