[Lighthearted farming + making a fortune through food + transmigrate into a book and change fate + healing each other + clearing up misunderstandings + devoted one-on-one romance]
Overnight, Zhao Qinghe transmigrated into a book as a cannon-fodder widow who shared her name in a male-oriented novel.
The original story sealed her tragic fate in a single line: after failing to seduce the male lead, Murong Chen, she was beaten to death by her brother-in-law, Li Er.
On the day she arrived, she found a house stripped bare, a nearly empty rice jar, and a kitchen knife within reach. Then she came face-to-face with her sickly husband’s cold, resentful eyes.
Her husband, Li Yunbai, was handsome and talented, with the looks of an immortal. His heart also belonged to Zheng Qiutong, the talented woman he regarded as his first love.
Everyone in the village knew he had been badly injured while taking a beating for his beloved, then forced to marry her. He couldn’t stand her and wanted nothing to do with her.
Even the fated male lead, Murong Chen, was convinced she was a wicked home-wrecker who had torn two lovers apart. He looked at her with nothing but disdain.
Zhao Qinghe saw through the story: whoever wanted to struggle through this awful life could do so themselves.
She stopped acting like the original Zhao Qinghe: no flirting with the male lead, no fighting over her husband, and no chasing after romance.
She made flatbreads to earn a living, ground beans to make tofu, and set up a stall to bring in money, using her deft hands to master ancient cuisine and steadily earn enough to support her family.
She paid off debts, escaped a dead end, crushed the rumors, and rewrote her destined death as cannon fodder.
She told him frankly, “Once your leg has healed, we’ll sign the divorce papers and owe each other nothing.”
She thought she was about to be free, but the aloof scholar gradually began to lose control.
He let go of his reserve, opened up about the past, and cleared up the misunderstanding about his first love. Now, his heart and eyes held only her:
“I was too prejudiced before and wronged you, my wife. I’ll never leave you, and I’ll never divorce you.”
