After transmigrating into the role of the “perfect fiancée” custom-made for an heir to a top-tier wealthy family, Jiang Yuechu finds her whole life neatly planned out: music, chess, calligraphy, and painting; four languages; financial management; social etiquette… Her daily schedule is more packed than the college entrance exam. Her family has just one requirement for her: absolute perfection. Everyone is waiting for her to become the most dazzling, most obedient, and most selfless canary in a gilded cage.
At first, Jiang Yuechu thinks she can just put up with it. After all, they’re offering her a lot.
Until her fiancé looks her over like a product at their first meeting and coolly lays down three rules for their married life:
“No career. No defying me. No genuine feelings.”
Jiang Yuechu: “?”
Fine. This heiress is done playing along! (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻
From then on, the wealthy elite of Jiangcheng have a new source of bewilderment and gossip.
At a charity gala, while everyone else plays Chopin, she fires off “Flight of the Bumblebee,” sending every socialite and society matron reeling.
At a business reception, while everyone else sips wine elegantly, she chugs champagne straight from the glass and becomes best buddies with the rival company’s CEO.
At a family matchmaking event, she shows up in smoky eye makeup and enthusiastically tells her prospective match, “Did you know 7% of people worldwide are gay? Hope you find your true love soon.”
Her prospective match: “…”
Her fiancé, furious, corners her against a wall. “Jiang Yuechu, what exactly are you trying to do?”
Jiang Yuechu smiles faintly and takes her time straightening her collar, but her gaze is sharp as a blade:
“What am I trying to do? Take my life back with my own hands, of course, instead of being a puppet in yours.”
Later,
