I Became a Layabout After Marrying the Dog-Blood Novel's Hero

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Blurb

[Greedy, gorgeous, lustful lie-flat slacker x cool, unhinged young lord]

Yu Yu, an overworked corporate drone who died from working overtime in her previous life, transmigrates to ancient times. After sixteen years of eating and drinking her fill, she regains all her memories and discovers that she's the heroine of an old-fashioned, angst-filled tragedy with a bad ending.

In the original story, the heroine loves her cousin, but after she saves the male lead from an assassination attempt, he falls for her and forces her to marry him. Resentful, she opposes him at every turn. After a string of melodramatic events involving a forced marriage, amnesia, escape, and imprisonment, she falls in love with him and confesses.

He doesn't believe her. During an argument, he accidentally kills himself with his own sword.

After working herself to death in her previous life, Yu Yu smiles and refuses to follow the plot. This time, she decides to lie flat and change her fate, hiding inside the residence to avoid meeting the two of them.

However, the male lead, who was never rescued, is gravely injured and unconscious, and urgently needs a bride to bring him good fortune. An imperial edict decreeing their marriage drops from the sky, and Yu Yu becomes the bride of the male lead, Gao Jin.

Gao Jin is the heir to Prince Qin. He is exceptionally handsome and aloof, with the air of an immortal, but his nature is cruel and merciless.

In the book, he persecutes everyone who falls for the heroine or whom she falls for. In short, he is a dangerously unstable madman with no morals or limits.

Yu Yu: Fine. Since I can't escape, can't beat him, and can't afford to provoke him, I'll choose to lie flat in comfort. At least I can save a life.

After their marriage, Yu Yu behaves impeccably. She never misunderstands the male lead, never interferes with him, and never expects anything from him. She lies flat, eating well, sleeping well, and enjoying herself every day.

But Gao Jin isn't satisfied. He strokes Yu Yu's cheek with bloodstained fingers and accuses her ominously, "You don't love me anymore?"

He brandishes his long sword, pointing it at himself with an excited look. "Don't be afraid. Watch closely. You'll like this!"

Help! Her husband seems to have gone mad again and again!

No, he's even crazier now!

So what? She still wants to lie flat!

1. The heroine was born into this world.

2. Each lead is devoted only to the other.

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Below is the blurb for Raising a Bastard Daughter and Two Big Villains. Please add it to your favorites!

One day, Jin Baoning transmigrates to ancient times and becomes the illegitimate daughter of a county magistrate. Her stepmother plans to give her to a wealthy merchant as a concubine. Just then, her legitimate elder sister, who is engaged to be married, elopes with someone, and her stepmother changes her mind, deciding to have Jin Baoning take her place.

She hears the groom is a scholar, handsome and refined, with both parents dead and a three-year-old younger brother. Unfortunately, his family is dirt poor, with barely a roof over their heads.

After consummating the marriage on their wedding night, Jin Baoning learns her new husband's name and realizes she's transmigrated into a political intrigue novel. Her husband, Cheng Qian, will become a ruthless eunuch and major villain, while his three-year-old younger brother, Cheng Nuo, will grow up to be a minor villain who abuses the law for personal gain.

One is a corrupt eunuch, the other a corrupt official. The brothers join forces to plunge the court into chaos, and are eventually both beheaded. After their deaths, they are cursed by the masses and left to rot in the wilderness. Good riddance.

As for her, she's a disposable character with just one line. Her whole family is punished by the villains, and she dies of illness while being exiled to Lingnan.

Jin Baoning: Attacked from both sides! Danger, danger, danger!

To save her own life, Jin Baoning vows to set the two villains straight before they go astray. But when she sees the nearly empty rice jar, the villains' painfully thin bodies, the leaky, dilapidated house, and the empty purse, she realizes that the most urgent task is to make money!

Food blogger Jin Baoning rolls up her sleeves and gets to work, setting up a food stall to build her fortune.

Jianbing stuffed with egg, bite-sized pan-fried buns, soup dumplings, hand-held pancakes... Nut milk tea, glutinous rice balls, seaweed rice rolls... Candied hawthorn strips with fillings, honey-glazed dried tofu, chilled rice dumplings coated in sugar...

A beautiful young woman has recently appeared in Huaiyang County's busiest market. She's clever and skilled, and her food stall offers a wide variety of delicious dishes that fill the air with mouthwatering aromas. There's always a long line at her stall.

"The pan-fried buns from Miss Jin's stall have such thin wrappers and tender meat. They make this old man drool..."

"The nut milk tea is the best. A cup in winter warms you inside and out."

"Those honey-glazed dried tofu strips are so chewy, a true delicacy..."

From an unknown little stall in the busy market, to the celebrated Jin Family Eatery, and then to the Jinmanlou chain spread across the country, Jin Baoning's life grows brighter and brighter.

The Cheng brothers, whom she'd casually taken under her wing, shoot up in height. Their complexions grow rosy, and they stand beside Jin Baoning like two pillars holding up the sea.

Cheng Qian promises with tears in his eyes, "My dear, I'll make the list of successful candidates, pass the palace exam, and earn you a noble lady's title."

Cheng Nuo speaks with confidence. "I'll become a top scholar too, and earn my sister-in-law a noble lady's title."

After that, the major villain passes all three levels of the imperial examinations, wins the top honor, and rises rapidly through the ranks to become the youngest chancellor in history. The minor villain becomes a celebrated child prodigy across the region, blessed with extraordinary talent and a bright future.

People say, "Two outstanding men from one family, bringing endless glory!"

Cheng Qian/Cheng Nuo: If you want to lay a hand on my wife/sister-in-law, you'll have to get past me first!

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Below is the blurb for After Failing to Reform the Black Lotus Villain. Please add it to your favorites!

Shui Su transmigrates into a book. The System assigns her the task of reforming Yin Kongqing, the black lotus villain in the story: an unpredictable, sinister, obsessive man who is cold and heartless.

She plans to infiltrate Prince Rui's estate, become a maid to the gentle male supporting character Jiang Xu, join the protagonist's group, and find Yin Kongqing.

Jiang Xu was kidnapped by criminals as a child. When he was found at ten, his legs had been tortured until they were crippled. The heroine, Chen Xingxing, pities the boy, who is like a younger brother to her, and decides to take him in search of a miracle doctor to heal his legs. Jiang Xu is cured by her.

On her first day at Prince Rui's estate, Shui Su meets Jiang Xu.

The fifteen-year-old boy in the wheelchair is lifeless and gaunt, with a face so exquisitely beautiful it seems demonic. Thick, curly black hair pools beside his cold, pale neck, giving him a ghostly aura.

He stares at Shui Su with vacant, lifeless black eyes without saying a word, then wheels himself away. The silver bells on his wrist chime clearly. A small red snake curls around the footrest of his wheelchair, flicking its crimson tongue at Shui Su, its two fangs faintly visible.

But Shui Su isn't afraid, because in the original story Jiang Xu is captured by Yin Kongqing while trying to save Chen Xingxing and tortured until he is turned into a human vivisection display to be sent to her. Jiang Xu has always been a kind person.

Jiang Xu is quiet, well-behaved, and not picky about food. Taking care of him is easy. As Shui Su gradually gets to know him, she begins to dread the thought of him dying.

Shui Su doesn't want Jiang Xu to die saving Chen Xingxing.

She runs away with Jiang Xu, but the mission still has to continue, so she leaves him again.

No one knows that Jiang Xu has two names. One was given to him by his father: Jiang Xu. The other was given to him by his mother: Yin Kongqing.

His mother was a sorceress. Until the age of ten, Yin Kongqing lived with her, learning how to raise and implant Gu, how to control poisonous insects, and how to make Gu puppets. After he turned ten, his father took him back and used his Gu insects to eliminate his political enemies.

The day he met Shui Su, Jiang Xu had his legs broken by his father for the sixth time, simply because his father feared he would run away. The woman saw his disability and treated him as naturally as anyone else, smiling brightly as she said, "Greetings, Young Lord. I'm Shui Su, your maid."

Shui Su is seven years older than him. The way she takes care of him feels less like a maid and more like an older sister.

Shui Su likes flowers, sunshine, and sweet pastries.

Shui Su is afraid of insects and the dark.

Shui Su...

Shui Su is leaving to find Yin Kongqing.

Jiang Xu: "Are you leaving me?"

Shui Su: "He needs help, and it's too dangerous. I might die."

Yin Kongqing smiles. "Can you give me your body after you die?"

Gu puppets are people too, and he is best at making them.

Blurb written on 2025.10.9

Theme: Love can transform cruelty.