Important notice: If you came here because of the author’s other works, don’t read this one!! The pacing is off at first, and the story completely falls apart later.
[Transmigration] + [No rebirth] + [No pocket dimension] + [Faithful couples]
[No rivalry between women] + [No pointless angst] + [If we don’t like it, we flip the table] + [Infrastructure development]
In ancient times, what would you do if the family your child was betrothed to fell on hard times? If you kept your promise and married your daughter into that family, people would praise you for your integrity. If you called off the engagement and offered compensation, people would understand that you cared for your daughter. But if you kicked them while they were down, people would despise you.
Of course, even if you honored the agreement, there were ways to pull strings. You could swap brides, replacing the favored daughter with one who wasn’t loved as much. After all, a young lady’s given name wasn’t something people could just ask about, and no one had specified which daughter at the time of the engagement, had they?
Zhu Wanzhen, the Zhu family’s Third Miss, would rather die than marry into the Northern Marquis’s household. “The Northern Marquis’s family has already fallen into ruin. Their title has been stripped away, and the young heir of yesteryear has been demoted to a seventh-rank county magistrate, still stationed at the border.”
As the Zhu family’s eldest legitimate daughter, Third Miss Zhu was naturally doted on. There was no way they would marry her into such a fallen household. The Zhu family patriarch, Old Master Zhu, discussed with his three sons, who still lived at home, whether to call off the engagement or switch the bride.
When Fourth Miss Zhu Wanning heard about it, she thought this was a wonderful opportunity. If her Third Sister wouldn’t marry him, then she, Fourth Sister, would!
The utterly ordinary transmigrator Zhu Wanning declared: From now on, the world is wide open, and I can make something of myself!
1. A female lead focused on building her career, with romance secondary. The male lead is just a tool.
2. No awful relatives. The focus is on avoiding pointless angst and directing that energy outward.
3. The author’s first long-form novel: it’s meandering and wordy.
