After Turning into the Villainess's Cat (Transmigrated into a Book)

[My historical-to-modern novel, After Separating from My Transmigrated Husband, is now available. The blurb is at the end.]

[The story is complete. I'm slowly revising it.]

Blurb

In her previous life, Chu Xuejing was used as a shield by the parents she trusted and treated as their own daughter. Her beloved husband used her as a stepping stone on his path to success, all for the sake of his white moonlight. She died after a life of hardship and illness.

Reborn one day, she learns that she's the wicked fake heiress in an old-fashioned tragic romance novel.

The fake heiress uses her frail health as an excuse to do whatever she wants:

She takes the true heiress's place in her family's affections, steals her marriage prospects, and even struts around in front of her on the day she marries the Crown Prince, the true heiress's childhood sweetheart, driving the true heiress to prove her resolve by taking her own life.

But in the end, the fake heiress herself is burned to death on her wedding night.

What a pity.

Chu Xuejing gently strokes her cat's head, her expression tender, as she hears him think:

[Is there anyone more miserable than me, a transmigrator? Being transmigrated into a disposable playboy was bad enough, but how did I fall asleep and transmigrate into the wicked female lead's cat?!]

Wicked, stupid, frail, foolish.

These are the words she hears most often in the thoughts of this transmigrator from another world.

The young woman's soft fingertips gently lift the kitten's chin. Without warning, she kisses its forehead.

"Good kitty," she whispers seductively, as if truly speaking to the cat. "Big sister likes you best."

What a gift from heaven.

Wei Beilin, who has just finished his college entrance exams and has never even held a girl's hand, lies woozily in her arms. After a moment, it finally dawns on him:

[She, she kissed me!]

*

Wei Beilin knows Chu Xuejing is no good.

At first, his prejudice from the original story makes him think everything she does is meant to ruin the relationship between the hero and heroine.

But when she clutches the hem of his clothes with tears streaming down her face and begs him to help her...

His heart skips shamefully.

Bewitched by Chu Xuejing's beautiful, delicate appearance, he willingly takes one step after another into her sweet trap.

She's just too insecure, Wei Beilin thinks. She doesn't really mean to do anything bad.

But when everything is exposed, she turns around and gets engaged to the Crown Prince without hesitation, as if Wei Beilin were something she could summon whenever she wanted and dismiss whenever she pleased.

Is he her dog?

*

Later, on the day of Chu Xuejing's wedding, he breaks into the Eastern Palace and carries her off to the northern frontier. He can't help thinking:

There's nothing wrong with being her dog.

[Reading guide:

1. Both leads are sexually inexperienced, one-on-one romance, happy ending.

2. The heroine is a little bit of everyone's favorite.

3. The hero hides a sweet exterior over a dark heart, and is completely love-struck.

4. An imaginary mash-up setting. Please don't nitpick the history.

5. 70% anti-piracy watermark, 48-hour delay.]

Historical-to-modern pre-release novel: After Separating from My Transmigrated Husband

Wen Yao and Zhu Qingheng grew up together and were betrothed as children. Once Wen Yao came of age, they naturally became husband and wife.

Zhu Qingheng loves her. Wen Yao knows that.

Yet she always feels there's an invisible barrier between them, as though she'll never be able to enter his world.

Until the day he brings a woman home from a brothel. The barrier disappears.

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Zhu Qingheng was transmigrated into this world as an infant. He has lived in ancient times for so long that he's almost forgotten his life in the modern world.

He's a refined and handsome man, the son of a Grand Tutor, and he and Wen Yao, the famous Chancellor Wen's only daughter, were childhood sweethearts who married happily.

He loves Wen Yao: her beauty, her talent, everything about her.

But he misses his hometown even more, the place he can never return to.

So when he discovers that Liu Ci, a courtesan, comes from the same world as him, he forgets that he's married to Wen Yao and brings Liu Ci back to his home without a second thought.

Wen Yao is well-read, sensible, and understanding. Surely she'll understand him.

If only he hadn't received that letter of separation.

[Reading guide:

1. The male lead changes. The new male lead is the emperor; the second male lead will suffer a painful comeuppance.

2. The heroine is sexually experienced; the hero is not. That's how romance novels for women work.

3. The heroine has her own career arc.]

Theme: Don't be prejudiced