The Black Swan Fallacy

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[Plot-focused | Ambitious heroine | Male lead is a virgin | Two romantic storylines]

Intro.

Bai Yao has always believed in one thing: people climb toward higher ground, while water flows downhill.

She is a wild weed that clawed its way out of a narrow alley. She has seen the mud of the lowest rungs of society, and all her life has yearned for the sunlight above.

The person she admires is a heaven-blessed favorite, high-born, young and successful, and dazzlingly brilliant. If she can win him over, she’ll have the fastest ticket to becoming one of society’s elite.

She makes her moves step by step, using every means at her disposal to get what she wants.

By a twist of fate, Bai Yao becomes a fake heiress overnight. But this dangerous new identity leaves her walking on thin ice.

The truth could come out at any moment. She has to secure the greatest possible advantage for herself in the limited time she has, and fight her way into an even higher position.

The road ahead is long, with every kind of monster and demon blocking her way. She will not be a shooting star that vanishes in an instant. She will set the trap herself and lure her prey deep into the cage. She wants him to bow to her, carve her name into his life, and offer up that ticket with reverence.

Him, and all of them.

(Interactive version of the blurb)

Bai Yao spent over twenty years being a good person. After she was cheated out of everything, she finally turned ruthless. Seizing a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, she changed her name and became the fake heiress of the Qi family.

The Qi and He families had arranged a marriage. Afraid she would lose everything again if her identity came to light, Bai Yao did everything she could to switch places with her younger sister and become the one engaged to a He.

To her surprise, her nominal older brother Liang Fu, who had always disliked her, couldn’t sit still when he heard the news.

Furious, he stormed home and grabbed her by the arm, dragging her all the way to the car.

“Marrying him is your plan?” Liang Fu locked the car door and pressed down on her shoulder, looking down at her. “Bai Yao, you really are willing to do anything.”

Bai Yao shrugged, acting as if she didn’t care. Then he added:

“Even if you really have to marry someone, is he the only option you have?”

Just as he was about to kiss her, she dodged in a panic and slapped him hard across the face.

He was crazy. He was her actual brother now.

In a panic, she had no choice but to hide with her fiance, He Hong.

At first, they were sweet together and got along well enough. Then one day, her fiance discovered her secret: she was a fake heiress. Their relationship was suddenly on the brink of collapse.

He couldn’t accept her deception and planned to settle their score before going their separate ways.

But after she really turned away, heartbroken and ready to leave him, he learned about the secret between her and her fake older brother.

In a fit of rage, he dragged her back.

“What is there between you and Liang Fu?”

“Bai Yao, do you know what happens when you lie to me?”

Bai Yao didn’t know then, but she found out soon enough.

At night, he was even more unrestrained with her than before.

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She is a flower growing in a swamp,

yet she insists on climbing the highest garden wall

to seize the sunlight above.

They are her knights,

her medals.

They are willing to risk everything for her,

cut through brambles and ride the waves,

and willing to fall into hell for her,

to die on the battlefield.

[Reader’s Guide]

1. The heroine has little sense of morality and is self-serving. This is not a pure romance, and there are two romantic storylines. Read with caution if that’s not for you.

2. That said, both male leads are virgins, and it has a happy ending, at least for the heroine.

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