I've transmigrated into a book. Good news: it's a novel where everyone falls for the heroine. Bad news: she's the one everyone falls for, and I'm one of the four male leads.
At least it's not an erotic novel. Seven days a week, and only four male leads. No big deal.
The heroine in the book is a little maid, but on the inside she's a woman who transmigrated into the story. The plot is more or less about how she wants to stay out of the fighting, serve the Duchess well, and eventually leave the estate to establish a household in her own name. Instead, she accidentally attracts the estate's four young masters, who grew up together, and they all live happily ever after.
The male leads are roughly as follows: The eldest will become a chancellor, second only to the emperor; the second will become a general with control over the army; the third will become a wealthy merchant serving the imperial court; and the fourth is a playboy who lives for pleasure, eventually inheriting the title of Duke!
All four men hold high positions, keep themselves chaste, have no wives, children, or troublesome romantic entanglements, and wait for the heroine to grow up. They only become adults once she agrees.
The heroine is a maid, but unlike the other maids, she isn't bound by all sorts of rules and is raised like a young lady. Apparently, the Duchess's only biological daughter died of an illness, so she poured all her longing for her daughter into two little maids: the heroine and the female side character.
SO: The heroine is a master of music, chess, calligraphy, and painting, and she's endlessly charming... Uh... she's also great at training dogs. And he's one of those dogs. Actually, he's one of the four dogs, the second dog!
It's obvious that Zhao Ergou is unlucky. He transmigrated too early.
At the time, he was only a three-year-old child of the Zhao family, with both parents alive and no connection whatsoever to the Duke's estate in the capital.
The other three dogs were still out wandering, and he'd heard that the Duchess was seven months pregnant.
But none of that had anything to do with Zhao Ergou. He had both parents, and as long as he wasn't adopted later, he wouldn't become the real Zhao Ergou.
Unfortunately, things didn't go as planned. In the end, Zhao Ergou could only be Zhao Ergou.
The moment he walked through the Duke's estate gate, Zhao Ergou, a man from the real world, finally started to feel like he'd transmigrated into a book.
The Duke's estate is a stage. If you've got the guts, come on in.
The Duke had just adopted four stepsons when the Duchess, who had only just given birth to a daughter and finished her month of postpartum confinement, announced that she also wanted to adopt two girls.
His sickly adopted little sister was still clinging to life, and his unreliable parents had adopted six older siblings for him. Of course, in the end, only the four boys were successfully adopted. The two girls were stopped by the Duke, and the Duchess raised them by her side as maids.
The four dogs outside the gate, along with the heroine and the female side character, looked at one another in silence.
From that day on, Zhao Ergou began his chaotic, farcical daily life.
Theme: Live in the present, and keep working hard.
