The Wicked Stepmother Is Running Away, and the Marquis Can Fend for Himself

Transmigrate into a book × supporting-character comeback × historical romance × palace and household intrigue × mutual devotion

[A free-spirited, resilient heroine who grows over time, kind but no pushover] × [an obsessive, unhinged hero with a touch of yandere]

One day, Liu Xiaosu wakes up inside the novel The Beloved Princess, as Liu Susu, the third-born illegitimate daughter of the Liu family. She’s married off to her elder sister’s husband and becomes the second wife of the Marquis of Nanying, a woman rumored to be unloved and to spend her days weeping.

What? She’s also supposed to bear this hypocritical old stranger a pair of twins, do everything she can to win his affection, and ultimately be killed by him, the novel’s heroine’s father and her own husband, who will mete out “righteous justice” and whip her to death?

Forget that! Liu Xiaosu rolls up her sleeves and gets to work: she’ll find this old man seventeen or eighteen concubines, then figure out how to say goodbye to him.

Bye, old crooked tree. The world outside is so much better.

But life in feudal society isn’t easy. Susu sighs. Just as she’s thinking of finding someone powerful to lean on and lie flat, a whole crowd of powerful men suddenly appears...

Ling Yuxiao: “What are social conventions? They’ve never been able to control me. If they hold you back, I’ll smash them to pieces.”

Yang Jining: “Whether you were the old Susu or the Susu you are now, I’ll always protect you.”

But still, as Liu Susu focuses on surviving, why does it feel like even the novel’s heroine is starting to act strange...