Shen Yan died from overwork and found himself inside a tragic romance novel aimed at female readers. The good news was that he’d already read the whole book. The bad news was that he wouldn’t survive past chapter three, and his entire family was next in line to have their property confiscated and be exiled.
His stepmother wanted him to marry a simple-minded girl to bring good luck to a sickly groom. His eldest sister was being offered up as a pawn to an old prince. His father was a useless figurehead who left everything to others. Shen Yan rolled his eyes. They could do whatever they wanted in the original story. He, for one, was going to turn everything upside down.
Armed with spoilers from a novel, he outmaneuvered his rivals and built alliances, exposing every last scheme in the marquis’s household. Along the way, he even dragged the miserable hero and heroine of the original story out of the mud. After all, one was crouching by a wall with injuries, while the other was mooning over a jade pendant. Neither of them seemed particularly bright.
He had to protect his sister, look after the maids, and keep the family from falling apart. The original story belonged to them, but his life was his own. No one was going to make him follow the script.
His stepmother wanted him to marry a simple-minded girl to bring good luck to a sickly groom. His eldest sister was being offered up as a pawn to an old prince. His father was a useless figurehead who left everything to others. Shen Yan rolled his eyes. They could do whatever they wanted in the original story. He, for one, was going to turn everything upside down.
Armed with spoilers from a novel, he outmaneuvered his rivals and built alliances, exposing every last scheme in the marquis’s household. Along the way, he even dragged the miserable hero and heroine of the original story out of the mud. After all, one was crouching by a wall with injuries, while the other was mooning over a jade pendant. Neither of them seemed particularly bright.
He had to protect his sister, look after the maids, and keep the family from falling apart. The original story belonged to them, but his life was his own. No one was going to make him follow the script.
