After Becoming the Villain's Cannon-Fodder Ex-Wife, I Just Want to Coast to Victory

Office drone Guan Xixi finds herself inside a doting romance novel. The heroine is the beloved of the story's great villain, Ying Zhijie, while Guan Xixi has become his soon-to-be ex-wife.

In the book, when Ying Zhijie hits rock bottom, she doesn't stick by him through thick and thin. Instead, she rushes to divorce him and steals every last cent of their savings to support her flirtation partner, nearly bankrupting his business and leaving it on the brink of ruin.

Who could have guessed that less than six months after the divorce, Ying Zhijie would meet a benefactor and start building his career? A year later, his startup would be growing at breakneck speed. Five years later, he would ring the opening bell at Nasdaq as his company went public, transforming himself into an internet mogul.

His ex-wife Guan Xixi, meanwhile, gets used up by a scumbag and is crushed to a pulp by a freight truck on her way to seek Ying Zhijie's help: a textbook cannon-fodder life.

Guan Xixi, wearing a pained expression: ...

Her only option is to keep the marriage intact for now, then become the wronged first wife who stood by him once he makes it big, claiming the moral high ground.

Then, when they divorce, she'll take half his business empire and make her dream of becoming a rich woman come true.

But somehow, while she's just lying low, how does she end up being the one ringing the bell at Nasdaq?

How did someone who only wanted to lie flat end up winning without even trying?

Ying Zhijie is cold by nature, but as day after day passes amid her tenderness and affection, he comes to believe that she has fallen completely in love with him after all.

Until one day, she prepares breakfast as usual, then disappears without a sound.

He calls in every favor he has and searches the whole city, but finds no trace of her. He sits motionless in the bedroom until dawn.

Only then does he understand: he is the one who loves her more.

Just then, a text arrives: Let's get divorced. I don't want much, just half.

Ying Zhijie replies with a bitter smile: “If that's what you want, I'll give you everything. But there's one condition, ”

Stay with me forever.