[Transmigration + personal space + alternate historical setting + sweet romance + face-slapping villains + plot-driven]
Shen He transmigrated into a book.
She became the vicious ex-wife in a period novel who abandoned her husband, Gu Beichen, an officer sent down to the countryside, ran off with Wang Gang, the friend who had framed him, and sold their five-year-old son.
In the original story, she and Gu Beichen were childhood sweethearts, and he had spoiled her like a princess.
Wang Gang returned to the capital and took Gu Beichen's place.
To marry Wang Gang sooner and become an official's wife again, the original Shen He returned to the quarry, this time as the head of the case team investigating Gu Beichen.
She became the ringleader in persecuting her husband's family.
Half of Gu Beichen's face was burned.
Her sister-in-law was assaulted by a scoundrel and driven insane.
Her parents-in-law were killed in a boiler explosion and framed for the accident.
A year later, the Gu family was exonerated, and Gu Beichen became the youngest director in the military district.
Only then did he learn that the original Shen He had been so vicious as to sell their own son.
When Gu Beichen found the boy, he was on the verge of death, begging for food outside a state-run restaurant.
Gu Beichen stabbed Wang Gang to death, then took his son's body and dragged Shen He with him to die in the quarry.
Shen He after transmigrating into the book: You want to sell my son? I'll sell Wang Gang's mother instead.
I have to become the head of the special investigation team and clear my husband's name.
Gu Beichen: “Why go to all this trouble? You left me, so why come back to save me?”
Shen He, a sucker for good looks, stared at Gu Beichen's impossibly handsome face and wiped away a string of drool. “Sob, sob... Honey, I can't bear to lose you.”
She dotes on her husband, loves her son, and rescues her parents-in-law and sister-in-law...
The vicious ex-wife turns into a crazed, universally adored beauty.