After Marrying the Cannon Fodder in a Period Novel

[Synopsis confirmed on September 25, 2025. Screenshot uploaded~]

With graduation approaching, Shao Qing has no choice but to agree to a blind date arranged by her uncle if she wants to avoid being sent to the countryside.

The good news: Her uncle, who works at a military factory, has found her an excellent technician.

The bad news: Before she can even meet him, her stepsister steals him away.

When her uncle hears what happened, he brings people over to make a scene at the Shao home. But he never expects her stepsister to say, full of righteous indignation, "So what if I stole your blind date? Shao Qing, stop making a fuss. I’ll let you have the military officer instead. That’s fair, isn’t it?"

Shao Qing says, "You’re pushing someone you don’t want onto me, and you think I’m the one getting a good deal?"

Furious, Shao Qing is either going crazy or on her way to going crazy. She refuses to calm down until she manages to get a decent sum in compensation from her stepmother.

With this fortune of three hundred yuan in hand, Shao Qing wonders whether she should borrow some money from her uncle to buy a job and stay in the city.

But two days later, her uncle, determined to save face, pulls every string he can and gets Shao Qing an invitation to a matchmaking social at the military factory.

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After having a dream, Qiao Xiaohong awakens to the truth.

Unwilling to marry the bitter male supporting character who serves as a foil in a period romance, she takes her stepsister’s blind date without hesitation: Pei Wenliang, the obsessive male lead of the novel.

As the male lead, Pei Wenliang has a family background impressive enough to make people’s jaws drop. But his relatives also get him implicated and sent down to the countryside.

Hardship reveals true feelings.

All Qiao Xiaohong has to do is accompany Pei Wenliang when he is sent down two months later, endure two years of hardship, and then return to the city with him and reclaim the Pei family’s confiscated property.

A lifetime of hardship or just two years? Qiao Xiaohong knows which one to choose.

But right after she marries Pei Wenliang, she learns that her stepsister, the original novel’s heroine, has considered countless options and chosen a cannon-fodder military officer named Lin Jingyang, who has a mental illness and will be discharged from the army next year.

Qiao Xiaohong is delighted.

Even while following Pei Wenliang to the countryside, she keeps an eye on Shao Qing, ready to amuse herself with her stepsister’s misfortunes.

But no matter how long she waits, she never sees Shao Qing being abused. Instead, she hears that Lin Jingyang, the cannon-fodder character, is rising through the ranks.

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