The Villainess Only Loves Wealth and Splendor

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It was only after Yin Meng dreamed through the plot that she learned she was the all-purpose supporting female character in a string of bestselling novels.

Beautiful, wealthy, aloof, but useless and fragile.

And she died very early, too.

She was the beloved senior sister in a tragic xianxia romance, whose heart the male lead ripped out to save the heroine less than half a day after it had been transplanted into her.

She was the plain, ordinary sister-in-law in a divorce reality show novel, while the whole internet shipped her husband with his gorgeous celebrity ex-girlfriend like crazy.

She was the wealthy, beautiful girlfriend who appeared out of nowhere in a youthful unrequited-love novel, after the childhood friend heroine wore the same perfume as her and slept with her fiance.

She was the hapless streamer in a video game romance, whose face was borrowed by the heroine, only for her boyfriend to mistake her for a promiscuous cheater.

On the day she destroyed herself, she received an invitation to the wedding of her ex-boyfriend and the heroine who had been paid to keep him company.

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That day, Yin Meng returned to the beginning of the first novel. Her amnesiac fiance, who had fallen in battle, came back with a wife and child, living a happy family life.

That day, she had just marked sixteen years of widowhood after marrying his memorial tablet.

That day, her mother-in-law, who had been her only family, told her with delighted excitement that she would take the new wife as a secondary wife and reunite the whole family.

It was also that day that Yin Meng put prayer beads on her right wrist, not to repent, but to ward off evil. She bowed deeply to the Buddha, whose face was blurred by the incense smoke. She did not pray for her husband to change his mind, for a happy marriage, or for a house full of children and grandchildren.

She prayed, "Buddha, I, your faithful devotee, am willing to be honey-tongued and treacherous, to take countless lives. I ask only for wealth and glory, and for fate itself to favor me!"

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Later, that fiance and his true love fell to their deaths from a cliff, and her mother-in-law died that very night, weeping herself heartbroken.

Yin Meng led her fiance's only surviving child and inherited the Duke of Ying's household.

As he grew up, her stepson became a handsome, dignified man, deep and cunning, stirring up storms in the court. Yet he would lie at her feet like a young beast, sobbing piteously.

"I won the highest honors for you and earned you a noble title. Why does Mother still refuse to look at me properly? How am I worse than that faithless, unfeeling father of mine?"

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Later, on the battlefield where immortals and demons clashed, the heroine, who had a System, offered her life in a sacrificial array to save the male lead. She gave everything she had and exhausted her heart and soul,

only to delay Yin Meng by a single breath.

As her head flew high into the air, Yin Meng held her sword to the male lead's throat. Meeting his blood-red, regret-filled gaze, she smiled coldly and playfully.

"Junior brother, will you die for her, or become my cultivation furnace?"

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Lightning-fast, lightning-fast, lightning-fast quick transmigration!

The ruthless villainess route!

A cold-hearted, power-hungry beauty demon, a male lead whose crematorium burns fiercely, and forbidden-love supporting men waiting for their chance to take the top spot.

Theme: Flesh and blood do not come from being loved, but from loving oneself.