The moment Qin Xiaoman opens her eyes, she finds herself inside a gritty novel set in the 1970s.
The good news: She knows all the main characters and how the plot unfolds.
The bad news: She's become the annoying little sister-in-law who deliberately drives a wedge between her brother and sister-in-law, and ends up despised by everyone.
But she's not afraid. She knows how to turn her life around.
She saves the original heroine, exposes a local bully, goes from a sales clerk at a supply and marketing cooperative to getting into college and opening a factory, and brings her whole family to the city.
She also happens to take in a man whose life has treated him unfairly: Pei Qingshan, the villain who turns dark later in the original novel. She forcibly pulls him back from his tragic fate.
As life gets better and better, she discovers the truth:
She isn't someone who transmigrated into a book.
She's the original novel's "annoying little sister-in-law."
The real transmigrator is someone else. They switched identities with her and are watching from the shadows, waiting for her to follow the script to her doom.
But Qin Xiaoman smiles.
"You tossed me into the body of an annoying person, but I can choose not to be one."
This time, she won't be anyone's supporting character or stepping-stone.
She'll be the heroine of her own life.
