Pretending to Be a Powerful Minister’s Fiancée, I Use My Child to Climb the Social Ladder

When she wakes up, Chi Nian has become the villainous cannon-fodder fiancée of a powerful minister, a character who doesn’t survive past the third chapter.

The original owner is a pretty village girl with sky-high ambitions and a life as fragile as paper. One day, while gathering herbs in the mountains, she stumbles upon a thrilling assassination. Though terrified, she watches the whole thing with her heart pounding in her chest.

Then, bold as brass, she saves a man who clearly comes from no ordinary background, is extraordinarily handsome, and seems destined for a fortune. He is said to be an important imperial inspector.

The not-so-bright original owner thinks she’s found a way to rise from humble roots and become a phoenix: get pregnant by the important man, then gain status through her child! That way, she can escape her impoverished mountain village, avoid marrying a farmhand, and leave behind a life spent scraping food from the earth.

When she takes him to see a doctor, she learns that the important man has lost his memory. It feels like fate is on her side! She pretends to be his fiancée and gives him the name Jinye. She thinks she can use the opportunity to get pregnant and fulfill her wish of gaining status through her child.

But although the important man has lost his memory, he’s incredibly difficult to deal with. She uses every bit of strength and every trick she has, only to end up furious and half dead with frustration. At last, the impatient original owner, out of options, develops a cruel desire for revenge: if she can’t have him, she’ll destroy him!

And so she begins tormenting the man she can see but can’t have: she refuses to treat his leg, finding a rush of revenge in the thought that this once lofty man will become a cripple. She beats and curses him at the slightest excuse..

Then the important man regains his memory, and her comeuppance arrives..