[Period Setting] [Face-Slapping and Scum-Tormenting] [Sweet Romance] [Military Marriage] [Domestic Life]
After falling into the water, Su Zhimian wakes up and realizes in a dream that she's the cannon-fodder female supporting character in a period novel.
No, it turns out her whole family are foils and stepping stones.
In the dream, the misery of the Su family's eldest branch makes the heroine's second branch look all the happier.
Out of selfishness, the heroine sends her father up the mountain, where he gets injured, setting off her family's misfortunes.
Su Zhimian quickly saves her father, who later finds a century-old ginseng root.
A relative who plans to steal the betrothal money is about to cause her mother to go into premature labor, but she helps her mother dodge the plot.
On the day her brother gets married, someone tries to steal the betrothal money. She retaliates by pulling a pair of red floral underpants over the thief's head, and everyone laughs at the thief.
Her wicked cousin-in-law covets her eldest brother and proposes a marriage swap. Her foolish cousin agrees.
Su Zhimian retaliates by sending her wicked cousin-in-law, who has drunk a fertility potion herself, right back to him.
Huh?
Her cousin can't perform anymore?
Later, the handsome army officer who watched her torment the scum from atop the wall falls for her?
The handsome officer is rich, powerful, thoughtful, and fiercely protective.
The only problem is his terrifying possessiveness. He relentlessly pursues her wherever she goes.
Su Zhimian supports her aching waist as the man, now thoroughly addicted, softly coaxes her: “Wifey, again?”
“Not again!”
“I'm afraid that's not up to you.”
*
Only later do people realize that while the Su family's second branch has become increasingly impoverished, the first branch's life just keeps getting better and better.
