Synopsis: [Warnings: The heroine saves herself; a female-centered story; heroine-focused; two character-growth arcs take precedence over the romance; System (the author is the System’s loving mom); a few awful characters who are not entirely evil; some genuinely evil characters who will not be redeemed; the male lead is devoted to his wife and mother, but still has his own agency; not a traditional period novel; both leads were sexually inexperienced in their previous lives (the male lead loved the original heroine, but the current heroine is independent); I love both the original heroine and the current heroine!!! No criticism allowed! If you want to criticize someone, criticize the male lead!!!]
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Ever since Zhao Ruiying could remember, she had sensed that her parents didn’t seem to love her very much.
They had given her her own room and a comfortable life, but they had never really taught her anything.
Zhao Ruiying had seen her nemesis Jin Zhaoyang’s parents. His mother rewarded him when he did the right thing, and his father helped him practice martial arts and marksmanship.
But no matter what Zhao Ruiying did, she was never scolded or rewarded. She was like a pet kept in a cage: the Zhao couple provided her with food, clothing, and shelter, but left everything else to chance.
It wasn’t until the day she set her nemesis up to get himself killed and met that person that she realized she was a character in a story.
Being struck by Jin Zhaoyang’s elbow and bleeding to death was her destined fate. The person who would take over her body was also named Zhao Ruiying.
“I never wanted to transmigrate into your world. I have my own career and dreams. Even my own mother has no right to erase everything I worked so hard for!”
“I’ll ask my stepmother to make amends by raising you. In return, you’ll help me break free and return to my own world!”
“You… are you willing to work with me?”
I gazed at her in a daze and blurted out, “I am.”
