[Synopsis revised as the story is being written]
After transmigrating, Qin Yuan got the role of a vicious cannon-fodder female character in a male-oriented novel, and was also a stepmother doomed to a miserable end.
--At twenty-five, she married the seventy-five-year-old master of the Ji family as a substitute. After less than two happy years, the male lead framed her for helping her lover seize the family fortune. Her reputation ruined, she shot herself amid a chorus of "slut."
Qin Yuan: This is ridiculous. If I'd just held on until the old man died, everything would have been mine. Why would I share an inheritance that was practically within my grasp?
Qin Yuan spread her hands and steeled her heart, deciding to cut off all romantic entanglements, devote herself to looking after the old man until the end, and plan her retirement in advance.
The men who had been fighting each other to the death for power suddenly got dumped:
Has she gone crazy? How long does she think she'll live without my protection?
Qin Yuan unfurled the list of assets the old man had left her and raised an eyebrow:
You ungrateful brats! You'll all be relying on me from now on, and you still dare say such disobedient, unfilial things?
*
Yu Chuan owed Ling Qingyuan his life for once giving him a meal. All he ever wanted was to quietly stay by her side and faithfully fulfill his duty to protect her. He never expected that one day, the woman he'd secretly admired would call him over.
"You've got a good face. It'd be a waste to work as just a bodyguard. From now on, you're mine. I'll pay you a million a month."
Yu Chuan looked at the beauty reclining on the chaise longue, her expression playful. He looked at the jade-white hand reaching out to him, adorned with a full set of imperial green jade from an old mine.
Well... maybe that could work.
Content warnings:
1. The original heroine represents the stepmother romance trope. Proceed with caution if that's not your thing.
2. The original story is a male-oriented power fantasy.
3. The female lead and the old man have no romantic relationship.
4. The male lead of the original story is not the male lead of this story.
[Note from January 20, 2024]
Theme: The economic base determines the superstructure
