[High-maintenance heroine + System + transmigrate into a book + everyone comes around + sweet everyday romance]
Mu Li transmigrates into a period novel as a doomed supporting villainess who causes trouble at every turn.
From the start, she throws a fit at her wedding and demands to break off the engagement, earning disapproving looks from the whole village. She also gets bound to a bizarre System: every time she embarrasses herself in public, she can exchange it for grain and meat coupons.
So the whole village starts gathering to watch her perform:
She face-plants in the threshing ground, bats her eyes at her cold fiancé and begs for a hug, loudly announces outside the general store that “my fiancé is the most handsome man in the world,” and leans out of the window at the educated youth compound to whistle the entire song “The East Is Red” at the men’s dorm...
Everyone shakes their heads. “That Mu girl has gone crazy.”
Only Jiang Yubai, the man she publicly rejected, calmly places a peeled egg in her palm. “Eat. Your face is white from hunger.”
Later, everyone in the production team discovers that the crazy Mu Li has actually gotten into university, landed a secure government job, and whisked away their handsomest educated youth.
And the man who coldly broke off their engagement back then quietly wrote her into the acknowledgments of his thesis, signing it: “My subject of observation, and the place I call home.”
