The Wife Who Transmigrated into a Book Charms the Coldhearted Military Officer

When a romance-game model presses her lips to yours, you realize you've fallen asleep in the wrong era.

On a midsummer night, Lin Qing rolls over on a rock-hard wooden bed and bumps into something hot. Half-asleep, she thinks her best friend has come to share the bed again. She shoves an elbow out, only to feel solid muscles. When she opens her eyes, a face she'd only ever imagined is right in front of her: sharp brows, bright eyes, sun-kissed skin, and muscles sculpted to perfection. The man lets out a low groan. She snaps awake, her heart skipping a beat.

Thinking this is a male-model perk she'd won in a contest, she reaches out, tugs at his clothes, and kisses him. But he pins her against the headboard, his eyes burning as he asks, “Lin Qing, who am I?” She smiles and replies, “Darling? Hubby? Babe?” But after a night of passion, all she can say is, “You're terrible in bed. I want to file a complaint.”

When she wakes in the morning, the walls are plastered with mud, the calendar says 1967, and red wedding characters cover the courtyard. Outside, a familiar wail rings out: “Heavens! Please let me wake up from this dream!” Lin Qing rushes out and sees Xu Mei clutching a lottery ticket and bawling. They stare at each other as fragments of memory suddenly surge into their minds: they've transmigrated into a book and become two cannon-fodder female characters in a beloved daughter of the era novel.

Lin Qing is the fake heiress, spoiled and willful, hopelessly in love with her childhood friend Shen Xingze. Xu Mei is her sidekick, married off to the Lu family's younger uncle, and destined to become Lin Qing's bitter rival. In the original story, they die after being crushed by their mothers-in-law and toyed with by fate.

Now, the only way Lin Qing can stay alive is by clinging to the cold and aloof army officer Lu Qichuan. But he mistakenly thinks she's still infatuated with her old flame, and treats her like ice. She can't get through to him and is fed up, so she throws in the towel: “If I get a divorce, what about you?” Xu Mei answers without hesitation: “If you divorce him, I'll, ”