[Absurd comedy, raising a crown prince in a rented apartment, transmigrate into a book] Dead from the start? No way!
Li Nian transmigrates into a book as the original wife, who dies early. According to the plot, her bargain-bin husband will strangle her that very night.
That won't do.
The best solution is to get pregnant and secure her position.
So she hired a pretty boy on the side.
"What's your education level?"
The man froze. "You hire a man and discriminate based on education?"
"Sorry about that."
"The price is different for a diploma, a bachelor's, and a master's."
"It's not discrimination. I'm just broke."
The man looked her over. She did seem pretty broke.
It was her first time, so she didn't have much experience.
Li Nian kept the man in a run-down little building.
After three hard months, she took a test. Still not pregnant.
"Could this man be impotent?"
Li Nian wondered if she should just dump him.
Then she disappeared without a trace.
At a business banquet, she saw the young master of the Qin family, a man standing at the very top of the pyramid.
He looked exactly like the pretty boy she'd been keeping!
The man closed in on her. "When are you divorcing him?"