Transmigrated into a Book as the Male Lead's Cannon Fodder Wife

Upcoming stories: "The Tragic Supporting Lady Awakens" and "A Farmer's Son's Road to the Imperial Exams." Please add them to your reading list. Visit the author's page to find them.

Story blurb:

One day, Lian Zhuyue wakes up to find she has become the male lead's cannon-fodder wife in a novel.

In the book, her original self dies young, and by the end of the story is branded an arrogant, overbearing woman who deserved to die.

She has transmigrated right at the start, when the male lead is down on his luck and his original wife is bent on ruining herself.

Luckily, she still has a chance to change her fate.

So when the male lead gets bullied, Lian Zhuyue puts on an arrogant front while secretly protecting him! Whatever he needs, she rushes to get it!

She figures that although she'd treated him badly before, if she does all this now, maybe she can live a carefree life later.

But just when the male lead finally gets his wits back, he refuses to let her have her way.

Lian Zhuyue looks at the male lead, who keeps following her around, and sighs helplessly. Weren't you supposed to be naturally aloof and cold-hearted?

Upcoming story 1: "The Tragic Supporting Lady Awakens"

As a tragic supporting lady, Li Qingyuan knows what is coming.

Her childhood sweetheart of a cousin will break off their engagement on their wedding day, bringing along the woman he truly loves.

The flirtatious top scholar will turn cold and heartless when he realizes he mistook someone else for his savior, just as she is fighting to get her father's approval.

The marquis's son will curse her for being nothing but a stand-in when she gives him her heart, then blind her.

The calculating merchant will make her bleed to death for the sake of treasure, just as she lets herself be moved by him once more.

And she can only follow the story's script.

But couldn't she make all this happen sooner?

Seeing the treasure before her that could instantly transport her, Li Qingyuan's eyes lit up.

So in the morning, in City A, she sweet-talks her childhood sweetheart cousin: "Cousin, try the porridge I made." She plays the sweet and charming fiancée.

At noon, in City B, she embroiders for the top scholar and asks with a tender gaze, "Do you like it?" She is a shy young maiden.

In the afternoon, she meets the marquis's son in City C, imitating his true love at every turn and playing a helpless orphan girl.

She still isn't done by nightfall. She runs to the merchant, who is just starting out in City D, and shows off her hairpins. Now she's the arrogant young lady of a prominent family.

At last, it is time for broken engagements, rejection, blindness, and bleeding to death.

All four men arrive in City A at the same time.

The hot-blooded childhood sweetheart, eyes red: "My fiancée was a little willful, but she was adorable. Too bad she doesn't want me anymore."

The flirtatious and passionate third-place scholar, looking haggard: "The girl I knew was so shy, but she doesn't like me anymore."

The powerful marquis, his gaze dim: "My girl was too frail to take care of herself. Now there's something wrong with her eyes, and I don't know what to do."

The calculating merchant, gravely ill: "My girl was so naive, I had to keep an eye on her. Now I don't even know where she's gone."

Then one day, they see Li Qingyuan flying a kite to her heart's content atop a tall building.

All four men turn red-eyed and call out at once: "Little Yuan!"

"Qing'er!"

"Xiao Yuan!"

"Yuan'er!"

Hearing them call out in unison, they freeze, then glare at one another with hostility.

The wife-chasing crematorium and the battlefield of love.

Upcoming story 2: "A Farmer's Son's Road to the Imperial Exams"

Xu Wen transmigrates into the body of a farmer's son in the Great Xia Dynasty.

His family is huge: his grandparents, parents, second uncle, third uncle and his family, and several younger siblings all squeeze into one big house.

They aren't rich, but they're reasonably well-off.

After helping his family weed and sow until his back aches, six-year-old Xu Wen has an epiphany: he will take the imperial exams!

So he starts by secretly learning from the teacher next door, then seeks out a tutor, attends an academy, and takes the provincial exams...

Step by step, he embarks on the road to the imperial exams.

Xu Sanmei is reborn. In her previous life, her family scrimped and saved to support their older cousin's studies, only for him to become a gambling, womanizing wastrel, offend a powerful person, and leave the whole family destitute and alone.

This time, she absolutely will not let her cousin waste the family fortune or offend anyone important!

Watching her ambitious cousin, she scoffs at his pretentious act.

Watching him pass the qualifying exam, she stubbornly insists as she chews the candied hawthorn he bought her, "This is as far as he'll get in this life."

Watching him pass the provincial-level scholar exam, she looks at the gifts from other people and wonders if her dream was false.

Watching him pass the metropolitan and palace exams, she gazes at him starry-eyed. My cousin really is the God of Literature descended to earth!

When the villagers hear that the Xu family's grandson is going to study, they secretly laugh. How could a peasant become a scholar? What a waste of the family's money.

His grandparents and uncles all say in unison, "Our boy can study as much as he wants."

The others scoff: "Dream on. Just wait until you see them brought low."

Yet when they watch Xu Wen rise step by step from a licentiate to a successful palace examination graduate, they are first dumbfounded, then calm. They understand now: the Xu family's grandson really is the God of Literature descended to earth.

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