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Blurb:
[Fake unhinged, genuinely clear-headed princess x seemingly gentle, secretly calculating, beautiful and tragic consort]
After transmigrating into a book, Ye Chuyue becomes a cannon-fodder female supporting character in a poorly concluded male-oriented novel.
In the book, she is infamous throughout the realm for mistreating the male lead, a noble and aloof man who married into her family, for decades. Once he gains power and begins pulling the strings, she is the first person he takes revenge on.
The noble Princess Ruiyang meets her end by being torn apart by five horses.
Determined not to repeat that fate, Ye Chuyue binds herself to a forging System and looks at her impoverished princess's residence and her beautiful husband, who always cries until his eyes are red. She decides to turn things around by making money first!
So she disguises herself as a man, saves a struggling ironworks and builds it into a factory, earning her first fortune.
Before long, the name of the Qiao family ironworks resounds throughout the court. Even the great general of the cavalry comes to study under her, and victories begin pouring in from the battlefield. Her relationship with the male lead gradually improves.
One night, Ye Chuyue gets drunk and calls out a name incoherently. A hand closes around the back of her neck.
"Look carefully. Who am I?"
In the flickering candlelight, her consort, handsome as a jade portrait, has red-rimmed eyes. Like a snake, he bites down on her palm:
"Y-You really married me because this face looks like his."
A glint of amusement passes through his pale amber eyes. "My lady, on our wedding night..."
He buries his high-bridged nose in her hair and nuzzles it.
"Let's make up for what we missed, properly."
Ye Chuyue: ???
Didn't the book say the male lead was seriously ill? How did he get out of his wheelchair? And how can he wield a sword and fight so fiercely?
This is a medical miracle!
Duan Nanxiao: "I'll come clean. I'm not sick. I was faking it."
Ye Chuyue slaps the table. "Well, it's not like I'm the only one with a secret identity. I'm not a princess, "
Ding! System warning! "Hehe, I was just kidding."
1. One-on-one, sexually inexperienced leads
2. Married first, fall in love later. Both have secret identities, and the male lead is a hopeless romantic.
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I Killed the Brooding Villain by Mistake, Now I Must Win Him Back
[Cold, heartless Daoist senior sister x insecure, obsessive, brooding man]
Jiang Qingyao transmigrates into a book, entering an old-fashioned tragedy novel.
The Qingluan Sword tells her she must stop the villain from destroying the world, or the story will erase her on the spot.
The villain is named Chi Yan. When Jiang Qingyao meets him, he's still an innocent young child who doesn't know right from wrong.
Jiang Qingyao's heart softens. She takes him away from the cultivation world, hoping he'll live out his life as an ordinary mortal, far from the conflicts of the cultivation world and the fate of staining the three realms with blood.
She teaches Chi Yan to read and paint, and shows him right from wrong. When he grows up, she accompanies him as he studies the Dao, and eventually accepts his proposal.
But on their wedding day, she sees him surrounded by sinister, ghostly energy.
It turns out that, in the end, no human effort can defy the story's predetermined plot.
Jiang Qingyao sighs and raises her sword against Chi Yan.
As he looks at her with reddened, tear-filled eyes, she runs him through the heart.
*
Fate has a cruel way of playing tricks. There was more to the sinister energy than met the eye.
Jiang Qingyao killed Chi Yan by mistake.
When they meet again, Chi Yan has long forgotten her. He is covered in wounds, like an abandoned dog.
Overcome with guilt, she treats his injuries and helps him cultivate. Their lives gradually improve.
At night, as she sleeps, Jiang Qingyao often senses a sinister gaze fixed on her. It slithers up her spine like a snake, slides stickily across her waist, then leaves her chest damp.
"Yaoyao, please don't abandon me again..."
"I'll be good. I can do the laundry, cook, sew clothes, and earn money to support the family."
"D-Don't find someone else."
The deep, magnetic voice repeats these words like a madman's mantra, raising goosebumps. The gaze grows ever bolder and hotter, pressing down on her until she can barely breathe.
Jiang Qingyao struggles to open her eyes and meets a pair of strange golden slit pupils.
He smiles as he stares straight at her, as if he means to take her apart and consume her.
*
The legendary King of Myriad Demons suddenly appears in the world. The demon clans grow restless, a blood-red sun hangs in the sky, and the elders sigh that the cultivation world cannot escape a storm of bloodshed.
Yet inside the Demon King's palace, the demon king said to be on the verge of destroying the three realms does nothing but guard a slender woman.
A cold black-scaled serpent tail coils around Jiang Qingyao's waist and slowly tightens, seeming both threatening and teasing.
Jiang Qingyao shivers from the cold and instinctively swings her sword, but he catches it in his grasp.
"Want to kill me again?"
Chi Yan bends down and licks the blood from the wound on her knuckle.
Tears fall onto the back of Jiang Qingyao's hand, and his voice trembles almost imperceptibly:
"Yaoyao, it hurts..."
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