Qiao Mingzhu was beautiful, with a slender figure, and the most beloved girl for miles around.
The wildest thing she ever did was figure out the route that the newly promoted major Duan Zheng would take when he returned home from the army, then pretend to fall, drug him, and use the opportunity to “get pregnant” with a Duan family heir.
She wanted something simple: to escape her poor mountain village, wear fine cotton shirts, live in a big-tiled house, and become a military wife with a life so sweet it could bubble over.
But one day, a mass of unfamiliar words suddenly appeared before Qiao Mingzhu’s eyes. That was when she learned she was living inside a book.
In the story, she was a stupid, evil cannon-fodder character who wouldn’t survive three episodes.
She would lord it over the Duan family by using her “pregnancy” for a few days before they discovered she was faking it. Her eldest brother would be arrested by the Red Guards for profiteering, bringing the Qiao family crashing down. Then she would be sold to the old widower at the edge of the village as his wife, and eventually beaten to death.
The male lead in the book was the man she had set her sights on: Duan Zheng.
On the day her fake pregnancy was exposed, he said coldly, “Qiao Mingzhu, you’ve been playing us for fools. You’re selfish and wicked, and you don’t deserve to stay in the Duan family. Get out!”
Qiao Mingzhu looked down at her completely empty belly and pouted, on the verge of tears. Fine, she’d take the comments’ advice: seize control of the situation with a kiss!
And so Battalion Commander Duan discovered that his vain, scheming little wife had started shyly snuggling into his arms.
Content warning: The male lead is a little harsh at first. The heroine isn’t the genuinely sweet and virtuous type, and the main plot involves a cannon-fodder character turning into a villain. Readers with very high moral standards, stay away. The original novel’s heroine is a woman who transmigrated into a book.
