[Scheming man + cunning woman + simmering tension + fighting over each other + height difference + older woman-younger man romance (psychological)]
Pei Muxi transmigrated into a book.
In her previous life, she was a well-behaved girl who became a short-lived soul at twenty-four.
In this life, she has to carry on living in the original owner's miserable family, trapped in a poor backwater where people will eat you alive. All she has is a handsome but useless father, a gorgeous husband who has no idea how to earn money, and a home with absolutely nothing in it.
Their house is bare as a bone, yet they supposedly have everything they could want. All they drink is plain health-preserving porridge.
Her stomach growls with hunger every single day.
On top of that, she is saddled with a massive debt, and the clan leader is pressuring her father to sell his daughter...
Father and daughter are both so beautiful that villagers young and old have their eyes on them. With wolves in front and jackals behind, every step is a struggle.
To pay off the debt and improve their lot, Pei Muxi, a top student blessed with both beauty and brains, decides to take her husband out stealing chickens and dogs so they can get rich...
Eighteen-year-old Xiao Jin says without a trace of expression, “Xue'er.”
Pei Muxi, twenty-four in the body of a sixteen-year-old, gets goosebumps all over:
“Don't call me that! Either use my full name or call me Sis. Say that again and I'll beat you up.”
Xiao Jin furrows his brow and looks up. “You're younger than me.”
Pei Muxi says, “Then just call me by my name! What's with calling me ‘Xue'er’ all of a sudden?”
Xiao Jin is silent for a moment. “Big Sis.”
Pei Muxi instinctively smiles and answers, “Yes?” But the moment the words leave her mouth, something feels off. Why does the way this kid says “Big Sis” have such an indescribably ambiguous edge to it?
