[Period setting + cozy daily life + farming + devoted husband + sweet romance + System + spirit-plant space]
Yao Tao is delicate and beautiful, talented too, but she’s a fiercely competitive medical PhD who has no friends and is still unmarried well past the usual age.
Her mother indirectly pressures her to get married and tags her in a post about a period novel character who shares her name: a fussy villainess no one likes, who ends up alone for the rest of her life.
But instead, she falls for Li Chuan, the brilliant second male lead in the book. The heroine breaks off their engagement and abandons him, leaving him so heartbroken that he never marries and devotes himself to science.
After staying up all night to finish the book, Yao Tao opens her eyes and finds herself transmigrated into a book as that fussy, disposable third female lead, whose only assets are her figure and beauty.
Since she’s ended up inside a book, Yao Tao decides to change the second male lead’s lonely fate.
An accident gives her the chance to save Li Chuan, and the two end up intimate. They quickly marry in a whirlwind wedding.
On their wedding night, Yao Tao takes the initiative, and the cold, abstinent Professor Li is soon hers.
To Yao Tao’s surprise, after their rushed marriage, her father-in-law, mother-in-law, and sister-in-law dote on her, despite her bad reputation.
The villagers all call her a flirtatious troublemaker, but her new family loves her dearly.
When her older brother and sister-in-law pick on her, her father-in-law gives them a thorough scolding.
When the village gossips target her, her mother-in-law and sister-in-law stand with hands on their hips, protecting her.
With such a wonderful in-law family, Yao Tao decides she ought to prove herself too: she’ll get into a prestigious university and make all the people who looked down on her eat their words.
And the aloof, abstinent professor from the original book, now that she’s won him over, can’t bear to be apart from her and is always thinking about how many babies they should have.
As a doctor, Yao Tao knows how painful childbirth is. She sighs: if only she could have them all in one go.
What a sweet book!