How to Grow Old with the Treacherous Official After Becoming a Cannon Fodder

A scheming villain × A lively, theatrical heroine Love after marriage, affection growing over time, sweet romance, lighthearted Jiang Jiyue transmigrates into a novel as a cannon-fodder female supporting character who shares her name. On her wedding day, the character breaks her promise, calls off the wedding, and elopes, turning the novel’s villain into a laughingstock. But the man she trusted is no good. She travels a thousand li to reach him, only for him to sell her to a brothel. She’s tortured to death, and the villain, seeking revenge for this deep humiliation, destroys her family: their property is confiscated, and her parents are killed. Jiang Jiyue, after transmigrating: “There’s no way I’m running from this wedding. If I can’t cling to the male lead, I’ll cling to the villain instead. At least I can hang on until the ending.” But clinging to the villain isn’t so easy! Gu Ci lost both parents as a child and was hated by everyone. Later, he excelled in the imperial examinations, became a favored official of the Crown Prince, and took charge of the judicial bureau, where he was impartial and ruthless. People called him the Jade-Faced King of Hell. Those who had once bullied him now begged for his forgiveness and tried to curry favor with him. The worst offender was the girl his parents had arranged for him to marry when they were children. But his new bride seems entirely different from what his investigations had uncovered. Is she hiding something, or does she have an ulterior motive? Later, Gu Ci holds Jiang Jiyue close. “Jiyue, you said you’d never leave me. Never, ever leave me.”