A Cunning, Charming Heart

[My Life as a Tycoon After Exile is now updating! Upcoming: Madam Ling Luo / This Fairy Is No Proper Lady. See my profile for the blurbs.]

As the concubine of Wu Ning Marquis Zhai Yuansheng, Yu Tao knows better than anyone how ruthless and heartless he is.

He once made it clear that as soon as he married, he would dismiss all the women around him.

She waited and waited. At last, the Wu Ning Marquis's wedding arrived, but before she could even pack her things, she was made to drink a cup of poison and sent to her death.

Reborn, Yu Tao resolves to stay away from the Marquis. But somehow, she is forced into his household once more.

Yu Tao grits her teeth. If she can't escape him, then with the memories of an extra lifetime, surely she can at least stay alive!

Little scene:

At first, the Wu Ning Marquis pinches the chin of his beautiful concubine and warns her: "If you want to live, remember your place. Don't entertain thoughts you shouldn't have."

Yu Tao blinks and obediently agrees, then turns around and gets herself pregnant.

Later, the Wu Ning Marquis pats her pregnant belly, putting on a stern front: "Don't think scheming against me means you'll earn my affection. As a concubine, you need to know your place."

Yu Tao smiles sweetly and obediently stays in her place. Before long, she is pregnant again and gets promoted to primary wife.

The Wu Ning Marquis, shut out by his wife: As long as I can't see it, my face isn't swollen.

Warnings:

1. I'm terrible at writing blurbs, so that's that. The story should be better than the blurb. The male lead isn't a virgin. One-on-one romance, sweet ending!

2. The setting is especially loose, with the dynasty loosely inspired by the Song and Ming periods.

3. The female lead is reborn. The male lead's face-slapping journey begins when he dreams of memories from his past life. Updates are usually around 9 p.m.

4. Anti-piracy measures may be changed without notice, including timing, and will block 30-70% of the text. Please don't click if that bothers you.

Blurb for My Life as a Tycoon After Exile

Miao Wan only realizes she has transmigrated into a palace-intrigue novel while being exiled with her husband's family.

Of course, palace intrigue has nothing to do with her.

She is the cannon-fodder first wife whom the heroine's childhood friend and cousin, Qiao Ruichen, married at his parents' behest.

The Qiao family is caught up in palace intrigue, framed, and brutally exiled.

The first wife cannot endure the bitter cold of the northwest. After a miscarriage, she falls ill and dies, appearing in the novel's bonus chapter only as a grave.

Miao Wan looks at her mother-in-law, shivering in a broken-down house as she does needlework to support the family, and her sister-in-law, whose hands are swollen like radishes from washing vegetables. She rests a hand on her rounded belly and sighs.

Well, what's done is done. First, set a modest goal: avoid ending up as a grave, and make a little fortune.

As for being unable to endure the northwest cold and suffering a miscarriage?

She's a born-and-raised girl from the northwest, famous far and wide as a master pig farmer. If she can raise over a thousand pigs, surely she can raise a baby?

Not a problem.

Reading notes:

1. A chaotic fictional setting. The male lead and the original novel's heroine have no romantic entanglement. The female lead is already pregnant when she transmigrates.

2. The story starts in the northwest, with a satisfying, drama-free tone.

3. The main plot is raising a child and making money. Romance is limited, and the male lead is just a tool for the plot.

Theme: Work hard to change your fate, and be careful when changing your life.