[Both leads reborn + female lead takes the lead + growth-focused + both leads are virgins]
“Building a career and making a name for yourself have nothing to do with gender. One day, I’ll stand above the clouds.”
Only after Ren Zhen died did she learn that she was the cannon-fodder legal wife in a sweet romance novel.
Born into a military family, she still couldn’t escape the role of helping the hero and heroine achieve love and success.
Even though her marriage to Lu Chiyuan had been arranged by their parents and solemnized by a matchmaker, she was still the obstacle ruining the hero and heroine’s beautiful childhood-sweetheart romance.
But for some reason, events didn’t unfold as they had in the story she’d read.
In the original story, the hero, Lu Chiyuan, was devoted and honorable. He didn’t mind that his fiancée had lost her chastity before marriage and insisted on marrying her, leaving his childhood sweetheart, his cousin, to suffer as a concubine. The legal wife and her family poured their entire fortune into helping Lu Chiyuan become a marquis and rise to the highest offices. But the legal wife was unlucky and died just a few years after the wedding. After a few words of regret, the hero secured an honorific title for the heroine, and the two lived happily ever after, surrounded by children and grandchildren.
But as the “cannon fodder,” Ren Zhen’s life was nothing like that. Nor was the love between Lu Chiyuan and his childhood sweetheart, Jiang Yingxue, as spotless and praiseworthy as the story claimed.
Ren Zhen was horrified, but as a ghost she was powerless to change anything. Even sending them both to hell could not ease the hatred in her heart.
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Cui Zhaoyuan: “Ren Zhen, I’ve wanted to see you for so long. I still do.”
May every year pass without sorrow, and may Chang’an always be filled with joy.
