[1970s] [Transmigrate Into a Book] [Marriage First, Love Later] [Both Leads Are Each Other's First] [Sickly Black Lotus x Obsessive, Mad, Loyal Dog]
Lu Zhixia dies unexpectedly in the twenty-first century. When she wakes up, she discovers she's a cannon-fodder character in a period novel who won't survive three chapters.
In the book, she's frail and sickly, and her grandparents treat her like a burden, selling her for ten jin of coarse grain to an old bachelor with a limp. In the end, he's abused her to death, making her a stepping stone to showcase the heroine's kindness.
When she opens her eyes again, she's coughing up blood. In front of the whole village, she grabs the hem of Gu Lin's clothes, the village's most notorious madman.
Gu Lin is a dangerous man just released from juvenile detention, gloomy and violent, a bad seed everyone avoids.
"Marry me. I have a quota that can get you a job in the city." The sickly beauty lifts her pale little face, her voice soft but resolute.
The madman stares at her with bloodshot eyes, thinking she's about to die.
At first, he only wants to see what tricks this woman is playing. He gives her a meal so she won't actually die.
Later, he trades all their rations for polished rice and white flour, turns his fists on anyone who gossips about her, and begs her on countless dark nights not to leave him.
Later still, he becomes a business tycoon feared by all, yet still gets jealous when she says one extra word to a male doctor. He shuts himself outside and pretends to be pitiful, waiting for her to comfort him.
Everyone says Lu Zhixia is a sickly burden, but Gu Lin treats her as his life.
Gu Lin: "They all say you're my medicine, but to me, you're my life."
Lu Zhixia, the Black Lotus: "Oh, my hands are cold. Feed me."
It only takes one word from her to turn a rabid dog into a loyal one.
