You Really Are a Devil

Blurb One: Xu Miaoshan is kind, strong, and an excellent swimmer. She's the village bully of Xiaozhu Village.

One day, she went to the river to wash clothes and saw someone drowning, headfirst in the water. Without a second thought, she jumped in to save him. But the jerk she'd worked so hard to rescue repaid her kindness with enmity as soon as he woke up!

Once conscious, Huo Chengzhou flipped over and pinned down Xu Miao, who had just saved him. "When my bamboo raft capsized, I thought, if anyone could grab me right then, I would reward them with ten thousand taels of silver!

"When I fell into the water, I thought, if anyone could pull me back to the surface right then, I would reward them with ten thousand taels of gold!

"As I struggled in the water, I even thought, if anyone could save me right then, I would reward them with ten thousand taels of silver and ten thousand taels of gold, plus a hundred mu of fertile land.

"But! Not a single person came, no matter when it was!

"So I decided that once I was rescued, I would strangle the big idiot who showed up so late!"

Xu Miao: "...You're insane!"

She kicked him right back into the water. "I hereby grant you a bellyful of cold water. No need to thank me!"

Blurb Two: Xu Jiaojiao was reborn. In her previous life, after her parents died, she didn't hesitate to take her younger brother to live with her wealthy maternal grandparents.

Ten years later, with her grandfather's help in arranging the match, she became the eighteenth concubine of the county magistrate.

Xu Jiaojiao was pleased with herself, sure she was about to reach the pinnacle of life.

But! After entering the household, she learned that her cousin Xu Miaomiao, whom she'd always looked down on, had married the county magistrate's only son, Cui Wang, a month earlier, and as his principal wife!

After that, riding on her young and promising husband's coattails, Xu Miaomiao went on to become the wife of the youngest second-rank official in the history of Wei, enjoying boundless glory! What had Xu Miaomiao ever done to deserve that?!

After being reborn, Xu Jiaojiao had a spiritual spring in her portable space and knowledge of the future. She brought her brother to live with the grandmother she'd once looked down on, then successfully snatched the future Minister of Rites away from Xu Miaomiao!

But why? Xu Miaomiao didn't fall into the dust. Instead, she became a female official, married a prince, and once again reached the pinnacle of life before Xu Jiaojiao did?!

P.S. 1. Miaomiao and Miaomiao are the same person. There is only one female lead in this story.

2. The female rival is reborn, but her intelligence is forcibly lowered. She's no great threat.

3. The male lead is an ungrateful wretch and appears rather late. At first, he ignores everyone, especially the female lead. After losing his memory, he ignores everyone except her.

Theme: Your fate is in your own hands.