[She never looks back + devoted to each other in body and heart + wealthy families + showbiz + a touch of secret identity]
Lu Lingjiu becomes the cannon-fodder ex-wife of the novel's male lead.
Everyone says she's been obsessed with Gu Wenzhou since childhood, shamelessly clinging to him until she became his wife in an arranged marriage.
Gu Wenzhou despises her and treats her with cold indifference, while being a gentleman to other women. Still, she blindly believes he loves her.
The good news: She was reincarnated before birth.
The bad news: She really did marry Gu Wenzhou, and she's a fake heiress.
In the original story, she'll do anything to keep Gu Wenzhou by her side: target the woman he loves, join forces with outsiders to undermine the Gu family, and offer him comfort when he's down. In the end, she dies miserably in a basement.
Now, when Gu Wenzhou asks for a divorce, Lu Lingjiu's mind is screaming: Take him for everything! Take him for everything! Take him for everything!
This little plotline? Easy to handle.
She promptly takes her “divorce settlement” and marries Gu Wenzhou's sworn enemy.
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Born with a silver spoon, Cen Yu has never known hardship, not until he meets Lu Lingjiu.
So it turns out you can go looking for trouble even when life is easy!
He goes against Gu Wenzhou for her, only to choke on water, get food stuck in his throat, or be hit by a flowerpot falling from the sky...
To stop her from marrying Gu Wenzhou, he even becomes a vegetable.
Thankfully, after the bitter comes the sweet. She says she'll marry him instead, and he happens to wake up just then.
Later, the refined and aloof Gu Wenzhou begs Lu Lingjiu in tears to come back.
Lu Lingjiu wraps her arms around Cen Yu's lean, powerful waist. “Gu Wenzhou's taken up performing now? He's crying so convincingly, even blowing snot bubbles. He's so ugly it's hurting my eyes. I need to touch your abs to feel better.”