[Straightforward STEM Beauty vs. Scheming, Dark, Refined Man]
[Period Setting + No Omniscient Perspective + Building Her Own Little Business + Marriage First, Love Later]
Shen Qingyuan, a second-year computer science graduate student, suddenly finds herself inside a period novel about a heroine’s rise to success. She isn’t the heroine, nor is she the cannon-fodder who dies at the start. She’s the sister who makes trouble from beginning to end, serving as the heroine’s foil.
She’s a tragic figure who fights her sister over a man all her life, only to end up sprawled across the most stinking pile of cow dung. The pointless ending, tragic for tragedy’s sake, makes Shen Qingyuan feel sick whenever she remembers it.
To change her fate, she’ll start with her own two hands.
A woman of action, Shen Qingyuan decides to build a career from what she knows best.
But just as she stops thinking she needs a man to get ahead, the gloomy second male lead from the book shows up with a marriage proposal.
In the blink of an eye, she becomes the golden phoenix everyone talks about.
Each of them has their own agenda. Shen Qingyuan wants to be the kind of woman who doesn’t care if her husband fools around outside, keeping her distance and minding her own business.
She thinks that’s what a smart woman does, but in Zhong Ce’s eyes, she couldn’t be more foolish.
