Chronicles of a Fake Heartbreaker

Upcoming novel: He's My Caged Canary

"Ambitious, career-minded, haughty heiress x devoted, love-struck loyal dog with an exceptional service streak"

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-- This Novel's Blurb --

Angsty | Fake feelings mixed with real ones | Acting first, falling in love later

"A beautiful, slightly flawed, fiercely strong-willed drama queen x a hidden boss who pretends to be normal but is actually dark and obsessive"

"Shi Zhang, it was love at first sight for me."

"Shi Zhang, you're so handsome."

"Shi Zhang, I like you so much."

"Shi Zhang, I'll be here for you from now on."

To complete her mission and return home, Jian Congwan had to make Shi Zhang kill her.

So she did everything she could to pretend she loved him. No matter how often he tested her or pushed her away, she stood by his side without hesitation.

At last, she won his devotion.

Yet when he loved her most, Jian Congwan betrayed him without a moment's hesitation. It nearly cost him his life, and it also got him to kill her, just as she'd hoped.

At the moment Jian Congwan closed her eyes, she saw Shi Zhang's bloodshot eyes and his trembling hands, smeared with her blood.

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A year later, when she returned to World No. 117, all its former vitality was gone. The place was utterly lifeless, and the only splash of color came from the wanted posters everywhere, each depicting her face.

No matter how she hid, she couldn't escape the inescapable net Shi Zhang had laid to capture her.

She was thrown into prison, and at the same time, Shi Zhang's revenge had only just begun...

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In the pitch-black dungeon, Jian Congwan was cold and hungry.

The man who hated her to the bone crouched in front of the disheveled Jian Congwan. His slender, bony fingers playfully lifted her chin as he asked, "Do you want to stay alive?"

There wasn't a trace of affection in Shi Zhang's eyes anymore, only endless mockery.

To stay alive, Jian Congwan stiffly nodded.

Shi Zhang snorted. Just as he had done so many times before, he affectionately twirled a strand of her hair around his finger. "All right. Then find a way to please me..."

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① 1V1, SC, HE

② Important!! The blurb uses a single perspective, but the main story reveals the truth. This is not a story that abuses the heroine!!

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He's My Caged Canary

"Ambitious, career-minded, haughty heiress x devoted, love-struck loyal dog with an exceptional service streak"

# Jiang Nian, only daughter of Jiang Qiuyang, head of the Jiang Group, secretly held her wedding on a private island. Her live-in husband is... him!? Photos from the wedding have leaked! #

A trending topic that blew up sent Jiang Ling's phone into a frenzy all day long.

Annoyed, she simply turned it off and slept all day in her spacious downtown apartment. It wasn't until the afternoon that someone she had been expecting showed up at her home.

"Jiang Ling! What's wrong with the Zhou family's eldest son? How dare you hide the fact that you married some poor guy who's beneath you in every way!"

Jiang Ling smiled at her furious father and joked, "Daddy, he's not some poor guy~"

Jiang Qiuyang was even more enraged by her flippant attitude. He slapped his daughter and stormed out, slamming the door behind him.

After her father left, Jiang Nian let go of the smile she'd put on to provoke him. Her face still burned.

Everyone thought she'd lost her head over a man, but she knew better than anyone what she really wanted.

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Gu Qingye had only just returned from an overseas research institute. Less than a month after coming home, he received a marriage proposal from a woman. Sitting across from him, she discussed their marriage as though it were a business deal: "How about marrying me? We'll divorce in a few years, and you'll get a very generous payment."

He gladly accepted and signed the prenuptial agreement, which offered him no benefit at all, with the name Gu Qingye.

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"Hey, let me ask you something. What are you going to do when my cousin takes power and wants to divorce you?" Jiang Gu, Gu Qingye's friend and Jiang Ling's cousin, asked him.

The word divorce had become an easy way to unsettle Gu Qingye. Just thinking about the possibility left him struggling to breathe.

"We won't get divorced."

Jiang Gu laughed, then suddenly lowered his voice. "Why don't you make her feel good? Maybe she won't divorce you then."

That night, a man stared thoughtfully at the black, tight-fitting turtleneck he'd just bought.

Half an hour later, wearing it, he knocked on Jiang Ling's bedroom door. He didn't come back out for the rest of the night...

Much later, Jiang Ling asked Gu Qingye why he'd chosen to wear that particular shirt that day, when it didn't suit his style at all. He silently picked up her phone and opened a short-video app. In her favorites, he found a man wearing the exact same black, tight-fitting turtleneck, along with her comment below: an "Ooh, so hot" sticker.

"What? I was just looking. Besides, that guy's nothing special." Jiang Ling spoke stiffly, trying to hide her guilty conscience.

Gu Qingye looked at her seriously and asked, "Jiang Ling, what about me? Am I good enough for you?"

Theme: Souls in pursuit of freedom