Year After Year, It Never Ends

[Next book: The Villainous Master Refuses to Offer Herself. Blurb below, please add it to your collection!]

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[Cool, soft-spoken scaredy-cat x alluring, captivating fox spirit]

If transmigrating into a book means meeting a vicious female antagonist, then Chu Xiu would always "keep her eyes closed."

But if transmigrating into a book could mean meeting a fox-spirit-like wife, Chu Xiu takes back those words.

Chu Xiu wakes up one day to find she has transmigrated into a book, becoming a minor character in a period novel. She's also managed to offend the most, most, most vicious villainess in the entire book, Xiao Bujin.

Ha! Is this a curse, or good luck...

Until fox-spirit Xiao Bujin hooks an arm around her and says, "I like it when you call me big sister."

How... does she get out of this one?

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Xiao Bujin is a rich heiress from an influential family. Unfortunately, one careless move gets her framed, dragging her entire family into the countryside...

She'd planned to muddle through and let her life run its course, but then she meets Chu Xiu.

A strange person.

For no apparent reason, she treats her well and arranges everything for her.

What seemed calculated turns out to be instinct.

The college entrance exams, a return to the city, the Huayi Clinic... Flowers bloom all along the way.

These are gifts Chu Xiu prepared for her.

May every year, year after year, belong to her.

Reading Guide:

One-on-one romance

Both leads are each other's first and only

Nonsense, but sweet, hehe

[Next book, The Villainous Master Refuses to Offer Herself. Please add it to your collection!]

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Blurb:

Warm, chatty, and aloof master x scheming, obsessive, alluring disciple

Shen Yang wakes up one day in a cultivation novel. Naturally, her role is the overabundant aloof master, except... she's a villain.

By a twist of fate, she rescues a filthy little child, never imagining that this child will grow up to be the heroine, her beloved disciple who will one day burn her to ashes.

Shen Qingyan follows the plot and dutifully completes her tasks. She accompanies the heroine in her cultivation, attends to her every need in the secret realm, and takes the punishment when the heroine injures someone. At last, she completes the mission to help the heroine rise to power and prepares to lie flat.

But the heroine returns, grabs her in a dazzlingly handsome fashion, and tosses her into a hot spring. With a splash, a long blue tail winds around her waist.

Her beloved disciple's tail coils around her, loosening and tightening, as her voice turns soft and breathy: "When you killed your disciple, Master, did you ever imagine there'd be a day this 'humiliating and disgraceful'?"

"..." Feeling the scorching heat in front of and behind her, Shen Qingyan instinctively tries to break free. Looking at the mermaid girl who has wrapped herself around her again, she snaps, "Lan Qiwut, how dare you! Let your master go!"

Her beloved disciple gives a low, deep laugh. "Master, how have I dared?"

"Ugh..."

"Lan Qiwut, you really are a traitor to your master!"

In an instant, her disciple binds her wrists tightly with the hair ribbon Shen Qingyan gave her. Hot breath brushes her ear. "Your disciple can be even more of a traitor. Would Master like to find out?"

"...Lan..." Shen Qingyan cries, "Help! I was only trying to survive and do my tasks. Nobody told me I'd have to offer myself to her!!!"

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Bonus scene (modern day):

In the second-floor walk-in closet, Shen Qingyan pins Lan Qiwut against the curtains. Hearing someone humming in the garden below, Lan Qiwut's eyes grow damp as she says, "Big sister, Mom is... in the garden downstairs."

Shen Qingyan's voice is husky. "Hmm? Should I stop..."

"No... don't stop." Lan Qiwut trembles, clutching the woman who has her at her mercy as she begs.

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Reading Guide:

One-on-one romance

Happy ending

Both leads are each other's first and only

Bittersweet

Very, very slight ensemble cast

It only takes one cat to go from slow burn to blazing hot

Theme: Break through your limits and never give up!