The Mad Beauty Tears Up the Script and Turns Her Supporting-Character Fate Around

[Self-interest is second nature + 1970s military marriage + space + island cuisine + ensemble cast + doted-on by everyone] Chu Nian wakes up to find she has transmigrated into a period novel, where she has become a cannon-fodder female supporting character. In the original story, she and her fiancé had been engaged since childhood. But just before the wedding, the Zhou family suddenly fell into trouble after someone reported them, and the whole family was sent to the countryside. Unable to endure hardship and obsessed with appearances, the original Chu Nian went mad and threatened to kill herself, begging her parents to break off the engagement with her fiancé’s family! She got her wish, missed out on her promising fiancé, and fell for a smooth-talking opportunist instead. After using her and getting what he wanted, he abandoned her, leaving her a laughingstock. Then she got pregnant before marriage, disgraced her parents, and, unable to bear it, slit her wrists and ended her short, miserable life. But three years later, her former fiancé’s family returned home in triumph, their positions restored and their fortunes better than ever. He then met the heroine, a kindred spirit, and the two fell in love, beginning a blissful life with no shortage of passion. Chu Nian, who always puts her own interests first, ran her tongue over her back teeth. Her fiancé was so much better than that scumbag! Sorry, heroine, but she wasn’t going to follow the cannon-fodder supporting-character plot. She wanted this man! “Nian Nian, your dad and I talked it over. We’re going to the Zhou family to break off the engagement in a bit.” “Mom, I’ve made up my mind. I’m not breaking it off. I want to get married to A-Wang and register our marriage, through thick and thin!” “Huh? That’s not what you said this morning.” “Mom, it’s noon now.” Outside, Zhou Wang had come to return the engagement token. “?” Had he heard wrong? She was the one who hated hardship most. Why would she be willing to suffer alongside him? A drama queen beauty VS a slightly dark, jealous sweetheart This is not a strong-female-lead story. The heroine is doted on by everyone, self-interested to a fault, and likes to lie flat and live like a pampered freeloader. She won’t do any of the hard, dirty, or exhausting work. The hero takes care of everything for her and always has her back. The hero’s whole family dotes on her.