Zhao Lingling was a miserable wage slave who stayed up late working overtime even when she had a cold or a fever. At last, she worked herself to death. After dying, Zhao Lingling swore that in her next life, she would never push herself so hard again.
“Miss, you’re finally awake. The master and madam have sent someone to take you home.”
What? Did I transmigrate? Lin Ruolan, the eldest legitimate daughter of the Lin family’s main branch, had a mother who was the only daughter of a wealthy Jiangnan merchant. Her mother married into the Lin family with a huge dowry, but her husband was a heartless scoundrel, and his concubines repeatedly persecuted her. In the end, she died of grief when Lin Ruolan was five. “Wait, why does this plot sound so familiar? Isn’t this the last historical romance novel I read before I died, The Concubine’s Comeback?” Lin Ruolan isn’t the heroine or the villain, just a bit-part character who dies soon after appearing. She’s terribly unlucky: her father and wicked stepmother spend the dowry her mother left behind, and the Lin family eventually uses her as a scapegoat, marrying her off to a violent man who beats her to death. The precondition for lying flat is to fight back, so she’ll fight with all she’s got. However, Zhao Lingling is hopeless at music, chess, calligraphy, and painting, and knows nothing about poetry, books, manners, or etiquette. Fortunately, the original Lin Ruolan was a nobody, and no one in the family cares whether she lives or dies. But “inner-family scheming is just too hard. I’d better leave it to a professional.”
The professional, Young Master Zhou: “I need a wife, and you need a husband. We could work together.” Zhao Lingling looked at the person in front of her and immediately said no. He’s a male love interest from the novel, and he’s gay. I may plan to get married and have kids, but that doesn’t mean I’m willing to be a beard, okay? “We can be sisters instead,” Zhou Lingxue said, her voice now feminine. “What’s going on?”
There won't be a male protagonist, right?