The 1970s Heiress Breaks with Her Family and Shines Bright

[Highly intelligent, radiant beauty who occasionally goes mad + calculating, multifaceted flight attendant + stingy but useful System + devoted military marriage]

Shen Nanqiao transmigrates into a book after criticizing a sweet romance set in a bygone era, becoming the book’s identically named minor cannon fodder, the second daughter of the capitalist Shen family.

After the original owner’s mother dies, her scumbag father rekindles his relationship with his distant cousin Lin Meizhen, who brings along the female lead, Shen Tang.

The Shen family takes over the original owner’s maternal grandfather Lu family’s fortune. Lin Meizhen claims the original owner’s mother’s dowry, forces the original owner’s brother to go to the countryside in Shen Tang’s place, steals the original owner’s job for Shen Tang, and even wants to take the original owner’s marriage for her.

Over a jade pendant meant to seal an engagement, the original owner is beaten and starved for three days, becoming the first cannon-fodder character in the book.

After transmigrating into the book, Shen Nanqiao plots her escape from the Shen family and joins the art troupe. Then, using her identity as a descendant of the Lu family, she donates all of Lin Meizhen’s money, using the opportunity to reclaim her mother’s dowry and the Lu family fortune. She also tricks her scumbag father into liquidating the Shen family’s assets.

On the day Shen Tang marries the male lead, Zhou Shiyan, Shen Nanqiao cleverly retrieves the Lu family jade pendant and activates the stingy System. The memories of her two lives merge, and Shen Nanqiao finally remembers: she didn’t transmigrate into a book, she was reborn. She is the original owner.

Shen Tang and Zhou Shiyan are both protected by their ability to steal others’ luck. Lin Meizhen, who fights and schemes for Shen Tang, benefits from their protection too, making it impossible to attack them directly.

Shen Nanqiao is a master at exploiting loopholes. After Lin Meizhen is set up, she suffers for a month before dying a miserable death, while Zhou Shiyan loses the use of one leg.

Shen Nanqiao has a chance encounter with another cannon-fodder character from the original book, Zhou Shiyan’s cousin, Jiang Linzhou.

The foxlike Shen Nanqiao, whose cunning is almost supernatural, is talked into joining the Air Force art troupe by Jiang Linzhou, a scheming, calculating big bad wolf…