After transmigrating, Jiang Nian becomes the vicious supporting female character in a novel, the one who relentlessly pursues the male lead.
Her husband, Gu Jinyuan, is a rising star in the business world: aloof and abstinent, with a vast fortune. But in six months, he will lose his inheritance and go bankrupt.
In the original story, after he goes bankrupt, the female character immediately divorces him and goes back to pestering the male lead. In the end, after repeatedly framing the heroine, the male lead throws her into the sea and drowns her.
The transmigrated Jiang Nian opens her eyes and looks at Gu Jinyuan, who will be penniless in a few months. She has only one thought:
Before he goes bankrupt, cut expenses, sell off the household possessions, save up some money, and run away.
While the man is away on a business trip abroad, she fires all the servants, sells the villa, and moves into a shabby old apartment.
Unexpectedly, her husband is a genuinely honest man. He moves into the apartment with her, sweeps and cooks for her, and even hands over his bank card.
On the day Gu Jinyuan goes bankrupt, Jiang Nian is preparing to run off with the money when she sees the man, wearing the cheap sneakers she bought him, kick his impeccably dressed uncle to the ground.
Only then does Jiang Nian finally realize what kind of man the husband she'd been ordering around really is.
His honesty was an act. The bankruptcy was a lie. What he really wanted was to swallow up the shares owned by both the Gu and Jiang families.
Scenes of all the ways she'd made him run around for her flash through her mind like a movie reel.
Jiang Nian's vision goes black. She's afraid she'll be the next one ground underfoot.
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One night, after she'd run away, the man holds her tightly in his arms and murmurs in a shaky voice:
"Why do you want a divorce? Did I do something wrong?"
"I don't need a title. I'll give you all my property. Please don't leave me..."
