After Pretending to Be Someone Else and Marrying the Male Lead of a Period Novel

[The heroine's true identity has been exposed! Note: The story is in its later stages, so updates will be slow. Updates will follow the ranking schedule.]

Overworked office drone Xie Kui collapsed at her desk.

When she opened her eyes again, she had transmigrated to the late 1970s. She had no parents, but did have a set of awful relatives. To escape her predicament, Xie Kui went to another province to live with her aunt.

Her aunt was overjoyed at her arrival. It turned out her cousin, who looked remarkably like her, had eloped to Hong Kong.

Afraid the truth would come out, her aunt begged her to take her cousin's place and get married.

Xie Kui agreed.

She agreed partly because she couldn't bring herself to refuse the 800 yuan her aunt offered as compensation, but more importantly, because she realized she'd transmigrated into a male-oriented period novel, and the male lead was the man her cousin was supposed to marry, the man who was about to be cuckolded.

In the book, the male lead had been promised that he could divorce after a year, so he agreed to let the old man arrange the marriage and honor the engagement. Unexpectedly, his intended bride ran away. From then on, he closed his heart to love and poured all his passion into his career. By the time he was forty, he had become the richest man in the country.

With the powerful Qi family behind her, she would have a comfortable life, no marital obligations, and a hefty settlement after the divorce. Xie Kui had no reason to turn down such a high-value job!

And the male lead was tall, handsome, and striking. That was a pure bonus.

So Xie Kui diligently played the role of the male lead's wife in name only, while energetically pursuing her studies and career.

Before she knew it, the year was up, and Xie Kui was just waiting for the male lead to ask for a divorce.

Who knew...

A month passed, and the male lead hadn't so much as mentioned the word "divorce." He even took the initiative to show her around and help her relax, and brought her along to a gathering with his friends.

Two months passed. The way the male lead looked at her grew more and more peculiar. While away on a business trip, he heard the slightest hoarseness in her voice and rushed back overnight to fetch her water and medicine...

At last, Xie Kui decided to tell him the truth and ask for a divorce. But then her cousin suddenly showed up in tears, demanding that Xie Kui give her identity back.

Before Xie Kui could respond, the male lead arrived to take her home. He calmly gave her cousin's address in Hong Kong, and her cousin turned deathly pale and staggered away.

Only then did Xie Kui realize that he had known all along that she had taken her cousin's place.

Once she was sure he didn't intend to hold it against her, Xie Kui had just breathed a sigh of relief when the man said, "Can I move into your room tonight?"

Xie Kui: "..."

Good heavens, what niche language are you speaking?

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Coming soon: Reborn in the 1970s After Another Woman Steals My Marriage

Blurb: Xie Ai returned to her hometown for the holidays, but couldn't take any more pressure from her elders to get married, so she left early.

Unexpectedly, she had an accident on the way back. When she opened her eyes again, she had transmigrated to the 1970s, into the body of an eighteen-year-old girl who had nearly been bullied by her stepbrother and was now fleeing to a military base to find the man she'd been promised to as a child.

But when she reached the base, she was greeted with a cuckold's hat: the man had married a month earlier, and his wife, Zhao Qiuhong, had originally been set up on a blind date with one of his comrades.

Just as Xie Ai was preparing to find another way out, a military leader had a sudden inspiration and decided to set her up with the hapless man whose intended bride had been stolen.

Xie Ai hadn't expected much, but the man was tall, handsome, and steady, and at just twenty-five he was about to be promoted to regiment commander. She had no reason to refuse.

Zhao Qiuhong, however, came to her in a fluster and said that the man was cold-hearted and wouldn't live long, urging her to turn him down.

Xie Ai thanked her for the warning but stood by her decision. It wasn't out of spite. She knew they were living in a novel, and that the man would eventually become a powerful figure whom even the male lead admired.

As for him being cold-hearted... Xie Ai rubbed her sore waist and thought bitterly, I wish he were a little colder!

The night Zhao Qiuhong received word that her husband Zou Qianli had died in the line of duty, she was reborn. Given another chance, she absolutely refused to marry that dull, boring man of few words, a stone-hearted workaholic. Instead, she schemed to marry his promising comrade.

A month later, Zou Qianli married his former fiancee and moved in next door.

She told herself not to pay attention, but whenever she argued with her husband, she couldn't help standing by the wall to spy on what was happening next door.

What made her even more frustrated was that Zou Qianli, the stern stone-faced man, gradually pampered his wife into a delicate young lady who never lifted a finger. He did all the housework, handed over his entire salary, wouldn't let her touch cold water in winter or enter the kitchen in summer, and even washed her underwear!

What drove her to the brink was that Zou Qianli's supposed death had been a misunderstanding!

When Zhao Qiuhong saw Zou Qianli standing safe and sound at the door, smiling at Xie Ai, regret nearly swallowed her whole.

Theme: Treat everyone sincerely. Opening your heart may bring unexpected rewards.