When Yan Zhenzhen wakes up, she discovers that she's transmigrated into the historical-era novel she read before she died, becoming the most miserable cannon-fodder supporting female character.
The original character turns her life upside down for a heartbreaker of an educated youth:
✅ Breaks off the marriage her family carefully arranged
✅ Offends the village belle, whom the whole village is afraid to cross
✅ Tramples her entire family's dignity underfoot
In the end, she freezes and starves to death in the depths of winter. What a tragic fate.
Looking at her frail body in the mirror and feeling her tongue stumble over every word, Yan Zhenzhen decides to stop struggling:
She can't be bothered to work herself to the bone, and she doesn't want to die. All she wants in this life is to find a reliable man and live a quiet, stable life.
Her plan to turn her life around:
Step one: Get healthy and learn a few household skills along the way.
Step two: Stay away from the heartbreaker and the village belle. Whoever wants that scumbag can fight over him.
Step three: Wait for the "former fiancé" the original character broke off her engagement with.
She thought she could lie flat and be a lazy fish, but she was forced to switch into hard-working mode:
- From knitting sweaters to crocheting tablecloths, her knitting side business takes the whole county by storm.
- From failing math to ranking in the top three in her grade, her comeback stuns the entire school.
- From being disliked by everyone to making her whole family proud, she becomes the village's first university student.
And Lu Xing, the "former fiancé" who was supposed to have nothing more to do with her:
On the way home from school through wind and snow, he holds out his hand to her.
"Comrade Yan Zhenzhen, let me walk you home."
From then on, exchanging letters becomes their unspoken secret.
Every letter hides a flutter they can't bring themselves to put into words.
When the news comes that the university entrance exams have been reinstated,
when the winds of entrepreneurship sweep across the land,
Yan Zhenzhen finally realizes that in this life,
she hasn't just changed the fate of a cannon-fodder character.
She's also made a wonderful life of her own.
