One Page Before the Divorce

Transmigrating into an old-fashioned angst novel as a cannon-fodder bride in a proxy marriage, Shen Mingwei found herself in hell from the start. On their wedding night, the male lead, Yuan Yu, coldly exposed the scheme and cast her aside like trash, abandoning her in a secluded courtyard to fend for herself.

Faced with a cruel husband, a scheming sister, and a household that looked down on her, Shen Mingwei finally woke up. She returned to her old profession as a modern cosmetics researcher, using the courtyard’s neglected flowers and plants to make rouge and powder. She quietly built connections with the servants and saved money, all so she could divorce him and run away to live freely one day.

When she calmly placed the divorce agreement she had written herself on the desk of the Grand Secretary, a man with power over the entire court, Yuan Yu was stunned to discover that the wife he had regarded as a pawn with ulterior motives had quietly transformed into someone radiant and dazzling.

What he thought was mutual respect was actually her carefully planned escape. What he thought was her keeping her head down was a thriving business empire.

Yuan Yu panicked. For the first time, this calculating Grand Secretary began frantically working out how to win back the wife he was about to lose.

The “winning back his wife at the crematorium” storyline officially begins

Character setup: A clearheaded, rational modern heroine focused on building a career vs. a cold, scheming ancient-era power broker who must win back his wife

Highlights: Proxy marriage, transmigrate into a book, marriage first and love later, winning his wife back at the crematorium, two powerful leads, career storyline, one-on-one romance, both untouched before marriage, happy ending