Yun Shu was a high-achieving professional at a major internet company. After dying from overwork, she transmigrated into the role of one of the cannon-fodder female characters in a male-oriented novel set in a bygone era.
In the original story, the heroine’s engagement was broken off, and she jumped into a river with her “mistress.” The male lead rescued the “mistress” without hesitation, while a disabled man saved her.
Gu Jilin was a veteran who had just returned from the battlefield. He had a limp, was deaf in one ear, had been injured down there and couldn’t perform, and was so poor that his family barely had two coins to rub together. He was notorious as a bachelor for miles around.
To spite the male lead, the original heroine chose to marry Gu Jilin.
But she didn’t settle down after they married.
She complained that Gu Jilin was useless while continuing to get involved with the male lead. In the end, she had an affair and ruined her reputation. The male lead, meanwhile, went off to the provincial capital and, thanks to his remarkable talents, moved among all kinds of women before marrying a rich, beautiful woman and reaching the pinnacle of success.
The original heroine lost all hope and drank pesticide in a ruined temple, ending her life in a fit of despair.
As for Gu Jilin, the following year he leased the village brick kiln and started selling red bricks. His business kept growing and thriving until he became a real estate tycoon and the richest man in Nancheng.
But none of that had anything to do with the original heroine anymore.
Nothing to do with her?
How could that be!
Yun Shu decisively chose Gu Jilin!
On their wedding night, she looked at Gu Jilin’s handsome features and broad shoulders, narrow waist, and exclaimed in shock, “This is the disabled man you were talking about?!”
Later, Yun Shu, spoiled to the heavens by Gu Jilin, crawled out of bed, her waist too exhausted to straighten, and shouted to the sky, “This is the man you said couldn’t perform?!”
