Transmigrating: A Drumbeat to Enfeoffment

[Chapters in reserve. I will never abandon this story.]

Dou Liangyu was selfish and cowardly.

After her father died, she endured hunger and hardship, ridicule and mockery. Curses and slaps were part of her daily life...

She thought this was simply the miserable fate of women living in ancient times, until the day Cheng Chun transmigrated into her body.

Cheng Chun was bold and forthright, with a plan for everything.

Unfortunately, on arriving in this new world, Cheng Chun rushed to curry favor outside the Imperial Ancestral Music Bureau, hoping to figure out how to make money. She was taken advantage of and became the butt of many jokes, acting crude and low-class, much to the displeasure of the bureau's new director, Liu Hengzhi.

Liu Hengzhi was young but already one of the Nine Ministers. On the day he took up his post as director of the Imperial Ancestral Music Bureau, he saw a woman making a fool of herself for a petty reward.

He prided himself on being noble and upright, and disliked crude, mercenary women like her...

Liu Hengzhi thought their paths would never cross again, but by a twist of fate, he married her. After the wedding, she completely changed her ways and claimed to have deep feelings for him, but Liu Hengzhi remained wary and distant.

He thought they could go on like that, respectful and peaceful, with no trouble between them, until their trip to Henei Commandery.

There he saw another side of her: she was courageous and clever, and went out of her way to protect him when they encountered danger.

As they spent day and night together, affection quietly took root. She was so sincere toward him; how could he let her down?

Gradually, Liu Hengzhi was willing to set aside his reservations and become a true husband to her.

But after they returned to the capital and the drum hall was built, she began exchanging private favors with a junior clerk named Wang Shanxi, and the two of them stood up for each other.

She no longer cared about money, and she stopped coming home.

He realized with a shock that he'd never truly known her.

Liu Hengzhi, usually mild-mannered and refined, always mindful of appearances and never given to anger, darkened his expression. She had dared to use him to this extent...

And now she wanted a divorce, so she could live happily with that perfect lover of hers? She could forget it!

Theme: Women have their own principles and direction; no one can measure them as they please