After Faking a Marriage with a Haughty Heiress

[New Novel Now Open: The Cannon Fodder Relies on Science to Tame Beasts and Dominate the Cultivation World [Book Transmigration]. Blurb at the very end ^_^]

Blurb:

Gentle, maternal older embroiderer top × coy, haughty younger heiress bottom

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Shen Huiniang, a village embroiderer, comes to the city for one reason: to break off her engagement.

Just as she is being treated with disdain, her fiancée, Fang Baoying, appears out of nowhere and comes to her aid.

Shen Huiniang is deeply grateful. She thinks Fang Baoying is sincere and kind, and that makes her even more certain she should not bind her with an engagement.

Who would have thought that when she visits the next day to call off the engagement, Fang Baoying would put on an innocent face and collapse weakly into her arms, saying, "Sister Shen, we already promised ourselves to each other for life."

Shen Huiniang cannot explain herself no matter what she says, and can only sigh in frustration: you can't judge a person by appearances.

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Fang Baoying, heiress to the Mingyue Embroidery House, is a notorious wastrel in the city.

To win a bet, she insists on the engagement: "Marry me, and you'll have mountains of gold and silver, plus a wife as beautiful as a celestial maiden!"

Shen Huiniang sneers. "Miss Fang's scheming can be heard beyond Yuezhou City."

But when Fang Baoying raises her head, holding back tears, and says, "I insist on letting everyone know that even the town's little devil can be sincerely loved!"

Shen Huiniang inexplicably nods. "Let's pretend to be married for a year, then divorce when the year is up."

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One year later.

The Mingyue Embroidery House has risen to fame and even been appointed an imperial merchant, making its name throughout the land.

The "perfect couple," Shen Huiniang and Fang Baoying, are also famous throughout Jiangnan and envied by all.

Fang Baoying hands her the divorce papers with tears in her eyes. "Our year is up. I shouldn't force you to stay here."

Shen Huiniang sighs. "If I stay of my own free will, how is that forcing me?"

[Reading Guide]

· Love grows over time; marriage first, love later. Pure sweetness, no angst, happy ending.

· A story of doing business among the common folk, outsmarting villains, overseas trade, and an embroidery-house worker rising to become an imperial merchant.

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New Novel: The Cannon Fodder Relies on Science to Tame Beasts and Dominate the Cultivation World [Book Transmigration]. Blurb:

Quick-witted, cheeky, hardworking older top × protective, crybaby, laid-back younger bottom

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Animal trainer Guan Muyun transmigrates into a book.

She becomes a cannon-fodder servant in a cultivation novel,

and is about to be at the scene of a plot-driven death, where she will poison the protagonist bottom,

then be casually killed by the protagonist top.

Guan Muyun acts immediately: Run!

If she runs fast enough, the plot-driven death won't catch her!

But she never expected that,

on the way out, she would casually rescue a little crybaby who had fallen off a cliff,

and accidentally activate the "Life-and-Death Gu" in her arms.

From then on, their life forces are linked.

If one of them dies,

the other won't survive either.

And this heir to a prominent family, Nangong Wanxing,

is the villain from the original book, who loves in vain, turns evil in despair, and ultimately dies a tragic death.

Guan Muyun: ??? My life matters too!!!

To survive until the end, Guan Muyun makes a plan:

First,

train hard,

save up spirit stones,

and buy an antidote pill as soon as possible;

Second,

stop Nangong Wanxing from going down the path of evil,

keep her alive,

and that means keeping herself alive too.

But she soon discovers

that the original owner's spiritual root aptitude is unbelievably terrible.

After ten years of cultivation, she's still a first-stage weakling.

Yet the modern scientific knowledge she has about animal training, in this cultivation world, can actually...

calm rampaging spirit beasts with her bare hands?

Help ordinary spirit beasts break through their bloodline seals and advance into ancient divine beasts?

Even... channel the power of all beasts by herself and repel a demonic invasion?!

Guan Muyun: Suddenly, this plot... doesn't seem so bad?

As she watches her cultivation steadily improve,

her spirit-stone balance keep rising,

and her chance to remove the Gu draw near,

Guan Muyun feels more and more hopeful about life.

But can someone tell her

why the young lord Nangong looks at her more and more strangely,

and follows her around all day?

"Senior Sister Guan, from now on, you're mine! If anyone bullies you, I'll protect you!"

"Senior Sister Guan, from now on, you have to listen to me and be my personal sidekick!"

"Senior Sister Guan, if you dare treat me badly, I'll... cry a whole river in the sky and drown you!"

Guan Muyun: ...Wasn't she supposed to be a ruthless, evil villain? Who is this childish little crybaby in front of me?!

[Bonus Scene]

At the bond-joining ceremony, red candles shine brightly.

At that moment, the Heavenly Dao unleashes divine punishment, intending to erase the cannon fodder and villain who should have been written out of the story long ago.

Nangong Wanxing takes a fatal blow for Guan Muyun and is on the brink of death.

The phantom of the Heavenly Dao hangs in the air, cackling:

"Outsider, if you are willing to kill her with your own hands...

I can make sure she dies alone and spare your life."

Guan Muyun stands in front of Nangong Wanxing,

facing the pressure of the Heavenly Dao, smiling calmly.

"What a lousy Heavenly Dao."

"You want my wife's life? You'll have to get past me first."

[Important Content Notes]

1. The plot and romance are split evenly. The plot takes a long time to build, and the protagonists have maximum plot armor throughout. This is not a typical leveling-up story.

2. The romance follows a doting-top-and-spoiled-bottom dynamic, with a bickering-couple setup and a long period of flirtation. The bottom has a nominal fiancée early on and, due to the Heavenly Dao's influence, does not realize she likes the top. In the original book, her descent into evil was not actually caused by love.

3. Any depictions of outdoor activities, animal training, pet raising, and similar events are invented by the author to serve the plot. Please do not apply them to real life.

4. The setting is a cultivation world in its early stages of development. The fantasy power level is on the lower side. All cultivators need to eat and drink to stay alive, and spirit beasts never turn into humans.

5. There is a secondary couple.

Theme: Dare to explore and strive for progress.