The Commander’s Chubby Wife Stops Pretending After Breaking Off the Engagement

[1970s Setting|Transmigrated into a Book as the Villainess|Fat Heroine’s Transformation|Playing Dumb with a Twist|Broken Engagement and Face-Slapping|Female-Led Entrepreneurship|Many Suitors|He Begs for Her Back|Slow-Burn Romance|Women Supporting Women] Shen Qiushi transmigrates into a novel set in the 1970s, as a fat, foolish side character who doesn’t survive past chapter three. On the day she opens her eyes, the senior officer’s family arrives to break off the engagement. In front of both families, Gu Yanchuan says, “I won’t marry a woman who’s both fat and stupid.” Shen Qiushi can barely keep from laughing. Good. The engagement’s off. In the original story, after the engagement is broken, her father tricks her out of the job her missing mother worked desperately to secure for her. Then he sells her to a widower, and she dies in a drowning staged to look like an accident. Now, she knows everyone’s script. She keeps pretending to be foolish, leading anyone who tries to trick her into signing papers in circles. She gets her job back and moves to the city alone. Starting as the dirtiest, hardest-working temp at the supply and marketing cooperative, she uncovers fake accounts, catches black-market dealers, opens workshops, and builds a cooperative, helping a group of women trapped by their families find a way forward. Little by little, she loses weight and grows beautiful. But what makes her someone no one can reach isn’t her face. It’s the business, home, reputation, and freedom of choice she’s earned for herself. Later, the senior officer’s family regrets everything, and Gu Yanchuan comes back, red-eyed, begging her to take him back. But Shen Qiushi already has officials who admire her, business partners ready to stand by her side, and a whole group of sisters who are loyal to her alone. Shen Qiushi: “Want to pursue me? Get in line first. And whether I marry or not is up to me.”