Return of the Swallow - Chapter 574.1: Warm and Cold

[Note: Male lead – Yu Luobai]The story begins with an attempt at su*cide. The newly revived female supporting role is confused. After barely surviving, she discovers that she has been transported into the role of a disposable female celebrity burdened by scandal and debt.In order to repay her debts, she decides to live frugally while relying on her status to improve her fortunes. She befriends the female lead hoping to benefit from her luck.One day, she suddenly realizes that the famous celebrity has been getting unusually close.

Ruan Yōu became a brainless cannon fodder in the Mary Sue entertainment novel, with fair skin, a beautiful face, and long legs. She was criticized by fans as “trying to climb up” after looking at the top male lead too much, and the female lead took the opportunity to suppress her, causing her career to plummet.

Ruan Yōu accepted her fate and decided to retire from the industry to study finance and live a laid-back life as a salted fish.

However, her billionaire parents and CEO brother came knocking on her door, their eyes filled with guilt.

Ruan Yōu: ?!

Retiring forty years early and living a life reclining on the couch as a rich woman has just arrived!

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Fu Jiazhan had known since he was a child that the little princess who had been betrothed to him had gone missing.

Mrs. Ruan spent her days in tears, holding his hand and choking out, “If Yōuyōu hadn’t gone missing, you and she would be about the same age, and you could have grown up together and taken care of her.”

Fu Jiazhan remembered those words, and when Yōuyōu returned to the wealthy family, he prepared to take care of her as her fiancé. But his future mother-in-law found three rivals for him.

- Description from Novelupdates

On the night of her engagement, Stella Norton, the adopted and unworthy second daughter of James Norton, is accused of infidelity and replaced by her own sister.Humiliated and heartbroken, Stella is cast out of the hall under her father’s orders while her mother looks on.In a daze of pain and betrayal, she wanders into a club, desperate to drown her sorrow—only to fall into the arms of a stranger ~Adrian Carter~ whose presence feels dangerously magnetic.By morning, she wakes to a shocking reality. Adrian holding out a marriage certificate. “Mate, we’re married,” he said.“What mate?”“What marriage?”“We were never school mates, how do you call me mate?” She shrieked.Adrian Carter, the cold and mysterious heir of the Carter Empire had a secret no one knows…he is the Alpha of the most powerful pack in Crown City.But fate doesn’t stop at secrets. As their worlds collide, Stella discovers that her own past is far from ordinary.Hidden truths, prophecies, bonds, and dark forces begin to rise—testing not only their love but their very fate.Will their marriage survive the storm of destiny?Can love survive when destiny itself demands blood and truth?Or will it consume them both?

At some point in the 21st century, the Christian God stopped listening to the prayers of humanity. Monsters with colossal strength and endurance began to emerge and humanity entered its darkest period.