Transmigrated Into a Book: In the 1970s, I’m Childless and Look Out for Number One

[Food, transmigration into a book set in a bygone era, refined self-interest, no children of her own, pets, adoption, a pocket dimension, no black-market dealings]

Shen Qingmo is a 996 office worker in a small city. Her favorite pastime is reading novels. One day, she suddenly sees her own name in a novel she is reading. With her pocket dimension, she transmigrates into the book she has just read, a story about a heroine who is reborn and marries an army officer, and becomes a minor character destined to be cannon fodder. After transmigrating into the book, she goes on a successful blind date with Su Mingyan, the younger brother of the novel's male lead, Gu Cheng'en. Su Mingyan is single and raising two children who aren't his own.

From then on, she lives a life of refined indulgence, spending money as she pleases, while raising the children in a hands-off, free-range way. She becomes a foil to Cheng Muxue, the capable and shrewd heroine of a period novel, who is also a stepmother.

At first, Su Mingyan only accompanies his good friend Gu Cheng'en to a blind date. By a twist of fate, both of them end up finding a match. He marries Shen Qingmo because he thinks the children need a mother. He never expects to fall more and more deeply in love with her, until he wants to go back and slap himself for saying he wouldn't have children after marriage.