Chapter 1

"I Really Didn't Mean to Be the Villain!" Author: Three Thousand Winds and Snow

Blurb:

Tang Mingxi transmigrated into a novel about a useless male lead's rise to power and became the male lead's wife.

In the novel, in order to humiliate the male lead, his wife tortured and beat him in every possible way. In the end, the male lead broke her arms and legs, threw her into the sea, and let countless sharks tear her apart.

Tang Mingxi, who had transmigrated: ...Of course, he needed to hurry up and cling to the male lead's thigh!

Treat him well, feed him, buy him clothes, and become the moonlight in his heart!

However:

"Reporting to Young Master Tang, Ye Heng has been kneeling in the blizzard for a day and a night!"

"Reporting to Young Master Tang, Ye Heng has been hanging at the entrance for three days and three nights!"

"Reporting to Young Master Tang, Ye Heng went to see that little bitch Tang Nuo again!"

#Is There Really No Way to Save Me#

Blurb Two

At Azure Luo Bay, Tang Mingxi and Tang Nuo were kidnapped at the same time.

The kidnapper pointed a gun at Tang Mingxi. Behind him lay a thousand-foot cliff and a whirlpool in the deep sea.

"Young Master Ye, choose one: your wife or your lover."

Tang Mingxi's lips trembled. "Ye Heng, I can't swim."

Ye Heng lifted his eyelids and said indifferently, "Tang Nuo, come here."

He did not spare Tang Mingxi a single glance.

All hope gone, Tang Mingxi leaped off the cliff and was buried in the sea.

Before he died, he saw Ye Heng freeze slightly, then look as though his eyes were about to split apart.

Much later, someone saw the president of Ye Corporation, whose power in Founding Capital eclipsed all others, kneeling on the ground in trembling agony.

Over and over, he called his wife's name, his expression crazed, every cry soaked in blood and tears.

And yet—

Tang Mingxi, who had swum twenty kilometers after jumping into the sea and made it ashore, burst into tears. "Hahahahaha, I'm finally free!!"

#Faking Your Death Feels Great for a Moment, Faking It Forever Feels Great Forever#

#Whoever Wants to Be Madam Ye Can Have It, I'm Done!#

A top who asks, "Is your heart made of stone?" x a bottom who says, "That's right, my heart is made of stone."

A sinister, sickly, possessive vicious-dog top x a carefree, heartless, sunny young-lady bottom.

There will be a wife-chasing crematorium.

Tags: Younger Top, Urban Romance, Wealthy Family, Transmigration into a Book

Search Keywords: Protagonists: Tang Mingxi (bottom), Ye Heng (top) ┃ Supporting Cast: Obstacles to Love ┃ Other:

One-Sentence Summary: Faking death feels great for a moment; chasing your wife is a crematorium.

Theme: Maintain an optimistic mindset in interpersonal relationships.

Work Review: Tang Mingxi transmigrated into a novel about a useless male lead's rise to power, becoming the male lead's cannon-fodder wife, doomed to die for causing trouble. In the original work, the cannon-fodder wife offended the male lead and met a miserable end. Naturally, Tang Mingxi chose to cling to the male lead's thigh! But what was going on? By the time he transmigrated, he had already offended the male lead beyond redemption! Left with no choice, Tang Mingxi could only fake his death and run away. Who would have thought that the male lead, who had initially hated him to the bone, would be crushed by despair and consumed by regret after he jumped into the sea... The author's writing was lighthearted and humorous, with a touch of melodramatic angst amid the absurd comedy, vividly portraying Tang Mingxi as a lively, outgoing, spoiled, troublemaking "young lady" bottom. The novel told the story of Tang Mingxi coming up with the ridiculous plan of jumping into the sea and swimming twenty kilometers in order to divorce and escape. The outrageous part was that he actually succeeded, leaving behind his utterly devastated husband, Ye Heng. The author gave old tropes a fresh twist; the story flowed smoothly, the characterizations were novel, and the protagonists' interactions were sweet with a teasing edge. It was a sweet romance well worth reading.

Transmigration!

Beauty, who are you?

Tang Mingxi stared at the mirror for a full five minutes. After confirming that the androgynous, unfamiliar beauty in the mirror was himself, he could not help asking again, "Beauty, who exactly are you?"

"Second Young Master..."

A cautious call from Aunt Wang, the housekeeper, pulled Tang Mingxi out of his confused state.

With a look of utter despair, he lowered his head tearfully and glanced at his slender, fair body, along with the six-pack abs that had vanished.

Then he looked up at the unfamiliar room: an exquisite, lavish chandelier, a handmade carpet woven from cashmere, and an air of extravagance, decadence, languidness, and sensuality everywhere.

Heavy snow drifted outside the window—when last night, it had clearly still been summer for him.

This was a dream, right? This had to be a dream, right?

Aunt Wang thought Tang Mingxi was still furious over his husband Ye Heng fighting back, so she comforted him. "Second Young Master, calm down. Ye Heng was so ungrateful that he dared to fight back. Just punish him, but don't let your anger harm your health."

When Tang Mingxi heard the name "Ye Heng," the corner of his mouth twitched involuntarily.

The facts were right before him. He had no choice but to admit that he had transmigrated into a book.

He had even transmigrated into a novel he had once read, becoming a cannon-fodder ex-wife with the same name as him, good for nothing but her face.

That was right. He was the scumbag cannon fodder, while Ye Heng was the male lead of "The City's Ultimate Live-in Son-in-Law."

In the novel, he was an old schemer who played the fool to hide his strength, a great devil who killed without blinking, a male lead even more like a villain than the villainous boss.

And he himself was the cannon-fodder wife who beat and cursed the male lead during the early days of this useless male lead's rise to power, only to die without a burial place in the end.

Tang Mingxi remembered that one moment, he had been drinking with a client on Wall Street, and the next, he had transmigrated into this novel he had read.

In the original novel, Ye Heng, the legitimate son of the Ye Family, the foremost wealthy family in the capital Cloud Capital—even the entire country—failed in his struggle for power against his mother. He was exiled to the southern city of Ningcheng with his seriously ill younger sister, barely clinging to life until Old Master Tang saved him.

To repay Old Master Tang for saving his life, Ye Heng concealed his identity and agreed to become the Tang Family's live-in son-in-law, getting engaged to Tang Mingxi a year ago.

He had originally thought that after getting engaged to Tang Mingxi, his younger sister would receive the expensive treatment she needed. Who would have thought that Old Master Tang would pass away unexpectedly half a year later?

After the old master's death, Tang Mingxi became even worse. Instead, he regarded Old Master Tang's goodwill as a means of humiliating him—who could bear marrying a male "wife"?

What was more, it was not even Ye Heng marrying him. It was Tang Mingxi "marrying down"!

So Tang Mingxi used Ye Heng's seriously ill younger sister in the hospital as leverage to threaten him, humiliating, beating, cursing, and torturing him in every possible way.

The consequences of offending the male lead were easy to imagine. Before long, Ye Heng relied on his own abilities to reclaim his status as the legitimate son of the Ye Family in Cloud Capital and seized great power with thunderous methods.

After gaining power, the first person to suffer was Tang Mingxi!

In the original ending, Tang Mingxi met a miserable fate. After Ye Heng locked him in a dark room and took turns subjecting him to all eighteen tortures—

He was ultimately thrown into a school of sharks, neither human nor ghost, and torn alive to death by countless sharks!

Calling it being torn apart by five horses would have been putting it lightly. This was simply... dying without even a scrap left behind!

"Second Young Master? Second Young Master?" Aunt Wang's voice rang out.

By then, Tang Mingxi's back was already soaked with cold sweat.

This devilish opening made Tang Mingxi's eyes roll back, and he nearly collapsed to the floor.

He came from a wealthy family, his parents were alive and well, and he had only graduated from Harvard Business School half a year ago. No matter how one looked at it, he was a winner in life. How had he ended up dying young? TvT

But going back now would only lead to death as well. Since he was here, he might as well make the best of it.

Since he had transmigrated and become Tang Mingxi, he absolutely could not let his fate repeat itself.

"You just said, where is Ye Heng?" Tang Mingxi forced himself to calm down. His terror had been so overwhelming that his voice was slightly hoarse.

Aunt Wang said, "Second Young Master, Ye Heng has already been kneeling in the blizzard for a day and a night. Don't worry, he's kneeling in the courtyard. Without your order, no one would dare let him get up!"

Tang Mingxi, who had originally wanted to cling to the male lead's thigh: ...

Could this world get any worse? :)

That was right. Ever since Ye Heng had married into the Tang Family, he had not enjoyed even a single good day.

Beatings, curses, and humiliation were routine. Even withholding food from him was considered mild.

Last night, worried about his seriously ill younger sister in the hospital, he had secretly gone out to take a look at Ye Yue. Tang Mingxi discovered him and flew into a rage.

The two of them got into a fight at the stairway. Tang Mingxi looked frail as a willow in the wind, all appearance and no substance. How could he possibly be Ye Heng's match?

The first time Ye Heng fought back, he pushed Tang Mingxi down the stairs.