Mu Xibai transmigrated into a book.
She became the evil stepmother in an 1980s novel. Though the original owner was stunningly beautiful, she was blinded by love and let a young intellectual cheat her out of everything. She beat and berated her two children. Her seven-year-old son was covered in bruises, his eyes like those of a little wolf guarding its food. Her five-year-old daughter was skin and bones, trembling as she clutched a rag doll missing an arm. Her husband, Gu Yuan, was an officer who had been away for two years.
No one knew how tragic the twins' endings were in the original novel: the son killed his mother and went to prison, the daughter was cheated out of her money and virtue and ended up homeless, and the man named Gu Yuan died alone.
Mu Xibai looked at the two poor little things trembling in the corner and smiled.
A disastrous start? No problem. She had a pocket dimension with a spiritual spring, plus the skills she'd learned in her previous life. At their first meal, the children went from wary to tears. The first time she stepped in, she scared off a scoundrel. The first time she demonstrated her medical skills, she established her authority throughout the village. Raising kids, taking down scoundrels, and building a career: she handled it all with ease.
Just as she was preparing to leave her husband behind and live her best life alone, her cold-faced husband returned early.
At their first meeting, he caught sight of her glancing back in the sunlight, and his heart skipped a beat. From then on, the cold-faced officer started falling for her on his own: sneaking looks at her, protecting her, and getting jealous with red ears without saying a word.
Three months later, three men appeared out of nowhere. The eldest brother handed her the deed to a courtyard house, the second gave her a bankbook, and the third carried in a box of beautiful dresses. She was the long-lost daughter of the wealthy Chu family of the capital, missing for thirty years! The whole family began doting on her. Her grandparents competed to hold the children, while her three brothers vied to spoil their little sister.
Gu Yuan panicked: His wife was in too much demand. He had to win her over fast!
Under the moonlight, he confessed with red ears: "I've liked you since the first moment I saw you."
The scoundrel was sentenced to prison, and the second female lead was imprisoned and sent to labor reform.
