[Transmigrate into a book + period setting + golden finger]
[Sickly, obsessive heroine x wicked, roguish hero]
Qin Dai was a decisive, formidable bodyguard. In her previous life, she died protecting her wealthy employer. Reborn, she discovers she has transmigrated into a period novel whose plot has gone completely off the rails.
The heroine of the book is frail and sickly. At twenty, she meets her first love and thinks he is the man fate has chosen for her. Little does she know he is a scumbag who steals the hero's fortune and usurps his place!
In the original story, the heroine's entire family is reported and sent down to the countryside. Her younger sister drowns while desperately trying to speak out. Her mother coughs up blood and lies critically ill, while her father is caught in a blizzard on the way to Xinjiang. Aside from the sickly heroine, every member of the family meets a gruesome end.
The scumbag easily steals the hero's most trusted aides and takes his place as heir. With one hand, he saves a high-ranking official's granddaughter; with the other, he wins the heart of a wealthy heiress, the hero's unattainable first love. He plunders and drains the hero's fortune and the heroine's golden finger to the utmost, leading to the hero's early death and the heroine's death with her eyes open.
After learning the plot, Qin Dai says, “What a ruthless bastard! But now that you've run into me, you've picked a fight with the wrong person!”
She teams up with the hero, slaps the scumbag, kicks the schemer, and easily averts the danger of being sent down to the countryside. Step by step, she changes her family's tragic fate and helps the hero reclaim what belongs to him.
Though their deal is supposed to be a simple matter of mutual benefit, Li Baichuan, “wicked, filthy, and shameless,” says, “Sweetheart, I love how weak and breathless you get.”
“What happened to your dignity?” “What dignity? You're more important than that. I just think you're so sweet, I want to taste every inch of you.”
Qin Dai: Where's my fifty-meter broadsword?!