The Only Daughter of a Villainous Supporting Character in a Period Novel

The once-weak Ming Yan is dead. Now there's an even weaker Ming Yan.

Ming Yan is reborn as the four-year-old only daughter of a thoroughly awful supporting character in a period novel. Unlike Ming Yan, who tends to overthink everything, her mother wholeheartedly lives by the motto, "Better to drive everyone else crazy than wear yourself out," and makes sure to torment those around her.

In those hard times, she uses this approach to keep herself and her only daughter well-fed and chubby.

Ming Yan knows her mother has her reasons. After all, her father works for a construction company in the provincial capital and is rarely home. If you're too weak, people will walk all over you. But could she please stop pointing at her little dumpling of a daughter and crying that the poor thing has gotten so thin?

And Dad, have you been away from Mom and me for so long that your eyes have developed a filter?

Why do you think Mom is right, too?

Ming Yan thought her father was just a normal, kindly man, since everyone said he was such a good person and it was a shame he'd married a shrew like her mother.

But after seeing how her parents got along... in some ways, her father was even more abnormal than her mother.

As their only daughter, she's really about to burn out.

After Zhang Qiaosui married Ming Hong, she refused to live with her stuck-up parents-in-law. She made it clear that she wouldn't move to the provincial capital with their daughter until Ming Hong had a place of his own.

Only after the apartment complex for employees of Ming Hong's construction company was completed did Zhang Qiaosui take her daughter to the provincial capital and move into the complex.

After a few days of enjoying the conveniences of life in the provincial capital, Zhang Qiaosui rubbed her hands together and prepared to collect what she was owed. Whether it was money or a favor, if Ming Hong was owed, then she was owed too. She intended to collect every last bit.

2025.10.03

🍒 Reader's Guide 🍒

1. The protagonists in the main story are Mom and Dad.

2. This is a fictional setting, a fictional setting, a fictional setting. Do not compare it with reality. Prices and living standards vary from place to place, so please don't generalize.

3. If there are any factual errors in the story, please point them out politely.

Theme: Persevere and strive for self-improvement