What Do I Do After Wandering into a Nest of Brooding Men?

1 The first time Yun Xi met Shen Yan Feng was in a cramped, dim rental apartment. Her mother, the only family she had, had been missing for three months, and Yun Xi was so hungry she was on the verge of passing out. Shen Yan Feng scooped her up. The tiny girl was so thin she looked like she might be blown away by the wind. The man's brows and eyes were lowered, the scent of cedar surrounding him. Yun Xi heard him say, "Come on, you little burden." Yun Xi fainted in Shen Yan Feng's arms just like that, and he carried her back to the lavish Shen family home. When she woke up, Yun Xi learned that her mother and stepfather had died in a car accident. Shen Yan Feng was her stepfather's younger brother, and also her uncle. 2 Yun Xi suddenly became the heiress of the prestigious Shen family. Everyone envied her for her good fortune, but Yun Xi wasn't happy. She had no one to rely on in the Shen family. When her cruel stepbrother, Shen Wang Shu, bullied her, all she could do was endure it silently, her eyes red with tears. The rebellious young man cruelly pinched her cheek, his fingertips brushing the redness at the corner of her eye. Seeing the fear in Yun Xi's gaze, he felt inexplicably irritated for the first time. "Bro." A clear, gentle voice came from behind. Shen Yan Qing rescued Yun Xi from the devil's clutches, then looked down at her with a face identical to Shen Wang Shu's. Though they had the same face, Shen Wang Shu was the school bully everyone feared, while Shen Yan Qing was an excellent student and her ambiguous love interest. Shen Yan Qing's gentleness left Yun Xi momentarily stunned. Her eyes shifted, and she thought of her uncle, Shen Yan Feng. 3 Once she came of age, Yun Xi decided there was something wrong with everyone in the Shen family. Shen Wang Shu's eyes reddened as he raged like a mad dog. "Xi Xi, Uncle can have you, so why can't your brother?" Shen Yan Qing, as gentle as the moonlight, revealed a possessive streak beneath his tenderness. "Xi Xi, no one but me will love you. Please don't leave me, okay?" Shen Yan Feng watched indifferently, convinced he was an outsider. But when he came to his senses, he had no idea when he had already fallen for her. Reader's Guide: 1. The male and female leads are both adults. 2. The male lead has had no other partners. The female lead may have. 3. The male lead is a sinister, nasty piece of work, and the female lead is a scheming black lotus. Please add my upcoming novel, After Taking My Celebrity Sister's Place, to your collections! Synopsis: Song Xin Ya transmigrates into a story about a real and a fake heiress. She's the fake heiress's identical twin sister, someone she has never met, and so insignificant she doesn't even count as part of the story's background. One day, a man claiming to be the manager of her twin sister, An Jin Rou, shows up at her door. He says An Jin Rou is ill and asks Song Xin Ya to take her sister's place for a while. Only then does Song Xin Ya belatedly realize that the novel's plot has already ended. Her never-before-met fake heiress sister, An Jin Rou, has become a vegetable after committing every imaginable evil and ruining her reputation. Take the fake heiress's place? You've got to be kidding. She just wants to lie flat. Song Xin Ya shakes her head. "Sorry, I refuse." It's not just a question of whether she can handle the job. An Jin Rou's endless scandals and her habit of making enemies everywhere are more than Song Xin Ya can take. "Then you don't mind if she has to pay hundreds of millions in compensation?" The cold, sharp-tongued man shows her a photo of An Jin Rou, pale and fragile, wearing a respirator. "Can you really bear to make her go to court like this? If she loses, she'll die as soon as she leaves the intensive care unit." Song Xin Ya struggles inwardly, but still shakes her head. What goes around comes around. What does it have to do with her? "You'll get all the studio's income while you're filling in. In a year, you could earn enough to last a lifetime. Doesn't that tempt you?" Lie flat early after just one year of work? Song Xin Ya is tempted. "But I can't act." "With An Jin Rou's level of skill, you couldn't possibly be any worse." Song Xin Ya grits her teeth. "Fine. One year, at most!" Her manager, Gu Wei Zhou, smiles triumphantly. "Sounds good." And so, Song Xin Ya naively takes her sister's place, becoming An Jin Rou, a vicious supporting character and a scandal-ridden celebrity at the center of a storm. She meant to lie flat and coast through life, but somehow she became a huge star. At an event, she accidentally hums a hit song from her previous life, and a king of pop begs to collaborate with her? The female lead on a drama set slacks off and throws her weight around, so Song Xin Ya steps in at the last minute and improvises a scene inspired by a hit drama from her previous life. The director can't praise her enough, and the supporting character steals the show? She casually cracks a couple of jokes on a talent show and instantly becomes the queen of quotable lines, with her popularity soaring! But... "Wait, you never told me An Jin Rou had a sugar daddy after she left the An family!" Song Xin Ya, already trapped in her new identity with no easy way out, clings to the doorframe and refuses to leave. Gu Wei Zhou clears his throat. "An Jin Rou was just a substitute. If you don't like him, you can break things off." "You didn't tell me I'd have to fake a couple with someone else, either. How am I supposed to flirt with a stranger?" "It's just an act to promote the new drama. Trust me, he finds it even more disgusting than you do." "And there's this, and that..." The longer Song Xin Ya does the job, the more she feels like she's fallen into a trap. By now, she's sure she's been duped. The sugar daddy who was supposedly not taking her seriously refuses to let go. The top-tier star she's pretending to date likes their couple video, and a hot young director hints that she should sleep with him for a role... Song Xin Ya, who only wanted to lie flat, feels the world go dark. She really just wants to make money! Damn it, all you men, stay away and stop getting in the way of her making money! And that sharp-tongued, two-faced manager, Gu Wei Zhou, is getting stranger and stranger. He always looks at her in a peculiar way and says: "I really regret letting you take her place." Theme: Hard work will eventually pay off.