After years of hard work, Yun Ran finally achieves financial freedom. On the second day of retirement, she wakes up to find she has transmigrated into a power fantasy novel called From Illegitimate Son to Chancellor, as the arranged bride of the villainous Marquis of Wu'an.
In the original story:
The emperor originally plans to arrange a marriage to test the Marquis of Wu'an, but the marquis refuses, claiming he likes men, not women. The emperor takes the opportunity to assign him a male bride: a distinguished young nobleman renowned throughout the capital.
Although the Marquis of Wu'an's household has no official lady of the house, it already has three sons, each more unruly than the last.
The eldest looks like a refined gentleman, but is actually a sinister, devious schemer with a head full of crooked ideas.
The second is a good-for-nothing who spends his days bullying poor students and classmates at the academy, chasing cats and dogs, and committing every sort of misdeed.
The third is only five, but he's been spoiled rotten by his family and casually threatens to beat or kill the servants despite his young age.
The male lead of the book transmigrates into the illegitimate son of a count's family. Yun Ran once mocked him a few times, and the two families have been enemies ever since.
After transmigrating, the male lead leads the fallen count's family step by step into the emperor's presence. Compared with the Marquis of Wu'an's three wastrel sons, the count's sons seem exceptionally capable. The male lead especially distinguishes himself at the academy by plagiarizing famous works, earning the admiration of countless scholars and writers.
The Marquis of Wu'an's three sons oppose the male lead every day, and the consequences of offending him are increasingly disastrous. The eldest even joins the Third Prince in rebellion, dragging the whole family down with him. They're sentenced to execution by exterminating nine generations of their clan.
As for Yun Ran, who offended the male lead, of course she ends up on the list of people to be beheaded, and is ultimately decapitated.
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When Yun Ran read the book, she thought it was immensely satisfying to see the Marquis of Wu'an fall. Never in a million years did she expect to become part of the great villain's family, with death as her only possible ending.
On the second day of her marriage, the Marquis of Wu'an is ordered to the northern frontier. Yun Ran grits her teeth, takes the keys to the marquis's household treasury, and assumes the role of the Marquis of Wu'an's wife.
Nobody is going to stand in the way of her retirement. She has no intention of getting beheaded!
If she's going to start her retirement plans over, she'll begin by reforming her three stepsons, who haven't yet caused any major disasters!
A small note: The three sons are not the seme's biological children.
Theme: You have to tear down the old to build the new.