[Transmigrate into a book + an unconventional stand-in romance + strong female lead + mind games and power plays + multiple transmigrators + fictional historical setting + plot-driven]
Female lead: A rational, self-interested transmigrator whose only wish is to get home.
!!! An absolutely combative couple: they fight each other early on; later, he becomes a meek, devoted husband, sensitive and prone to overthinking, determined to marry Gu Tingxue.
Gu Tingxue is sent into the residence as a spy because she looks like the male lead’s late wife.
But she’s exposed and taken down at once. The male lead wants no part of a stand-in romance.
Gu Tingxue is the last person to cave under pressure. Even while being tortured, she keeps taunting him.
“My face doesn’t work on you? Do I still not look enough like your dead wife?”
“You say your wife was your enemy. Does seeing my similar face every day give you nightmares?”
As a modern woman, Gu Tingxue refuses to take a single loss. She seizes her chance, ties up the male lead, and slaps him 67 times.
To get home, Gu Tingxue starts gathering intelligence, navigating the various factions and surviving in the cracks between them.
Before she knows it, she’s playing all four sides.
Faction A: Go to B and steal their intelligence.
Faction B: Go to A and feed them false information.
Faction C: I’ll pay top dollar. Spy on A and B for me.
Faction D: Don’t you remember? I was the one who planted you in A.
Gu Tingxue: “...”
She’s working four jobs while joining a deadly game against a group of fellow transmigrators, all competing for the last ticket home.
It sounds exhausting just thinking about it.
