The 1980s Cannon-Fodder Ex-Wife Keeps the Marrying-In Big Shot Up at Night

[An emotionally detached cannon-fodder supporting heroine ✖️ a genius doctor who becomes meek and calculating for love]

[Content warning]: The heroine’s romance takes center stage only later, and the burn is extremely slow. The early story focuses on family squabbles, sorting out problems left by her identity, and her career.

What do you do when you transmigrate into a story written by your arch-enemy?

Shen Zhi is panicking. After all, the lives of her entire family are in her hands.

Thankfully, so far all she’s done is force the big shot into marrying into her family. They haven’t reached the part where he gets fed up, she goes off the rails, abuses him, and finds a lover on the side.

Plan one: Make up for everything like crazy and try to win the big shot over, then send this formidable man on his way and save the whole family.

Plan two: Keep her distance at all costs, draw a clear line between herself and the future lover, and save her own life.

Shen Zhi’s little brain is full of big questions. First, there’s the “lover” who keeps throwing himself at her when she’s done nothing to provoke him. (He likes me because the plot’s controlling him, not because he really does. Obviously.jpg)

Second, there’s the big shot who thinks he’s been humiliated in the Shen household, yet still comes back to make up with her. (He’s probably a masochist. Big shots all have their own weird fetishes. Obviously.jpg)

While the two men can’t stand each other and secretly compete,

Shen Zhi thinks, “I had a whole day of work. I’m so happy.”

After they keep dropping hints in front of her,

Shen Zhi says, “I’ve been working hard for a while. I’m rewarding myself and the kids with a few days away.”

Later on,

only one man is left showing off like a peacock in front of Shen Zhi.

Even Shen Zhi, whose heart is made of ice, melts without realizing it.

After marriage:

Shen Zhi says, “Who says a man’s no good after thirty-five? My back! My precious work hours! ˃̣̣̥᷄⌓˂̣̣̥᷅”