The Lost Heir Returns, and the Marquis's Estate Erupts

[Transmigrate Into a Book + Mind Reading + Cannon Fodder + Female-Oriented Male Lead + 1v1 + Slow Pace] Taozhi has transmigrated into a book! She’s become a pitiful, chubby maid serving the notorious villain in the story. The villain, Zhou Xu, has been rotten to the core since childhood, a genuine little black-hearted villain. Sure enough, evil sprouts early. He’s arrogant and domineering, crude and uncivilized, stealing the male lead’s clothes to wear and snatching food others have thrown away. Even the maids and servants want nothing to do with him… But why does the little villain seem more and more pitiful the longer you look? His father despises him: “I’d rather have no son at all than one as useless and unlearned as you.” His grandmother ignores him: “Zhou Xu is so vulgar. How could he possibly compare to my grandson?” His stepmother and the others mock him: “Zhou Xu is just a freeloader who showed up at our door. He’s no better than a beggar, fit only to wear our castoffs. If you ever get on our nerves, we’ll throw you out.” The servants look down on him: “Some young master! He reeks of poverty. I’d lose face just serving him.” Furious and heartbroken for him, Taozhi is about to help Zhou Xu turn his fortunes around when… Huh? Why has everything suddenly changed? His father, who once hated him to the core, beams: “My precious son, I heard you’re close with the emperor. You see, I’ve been stuck in this dead-end post for so long. Could you help me get a better position?” The old madam, who wore a Buddha’s face but hid a snake’s heart and thought nothing of Zhou Xu, smiles kindly: “Xu, I heard the Imperial Preceptor is holding a Buddhist ceremony. All the noble ladies in the capital are going. Your grandmother would like to go too.” His stepmother and the others, who used to make things difficult for him at every turn, curry favor with him: “Xu, you’re now a pillar of our court, the nation’s purse strings, and a legend among scholars. Could you give your brothers and sisters a hand too?” Zhou Xu: “Get lost. All of you.”