After transmigrating, Wei Xuan is left without parents and surrounded by covetous relatives from her clan. To protect the family business, she takes in a husband.
Her husband goes to the capital to sit the imperial examinations and passes with flying colors. Wei Xuan takes his mother to the capital to join him, only to discover that he's been keeping a mistress on the side.
What's more, the mistress is an official's daughter who went missing years ago and has now returned to reclaim her identity as a young lady. For the sake of his career, Wei Xuan's husband wants a divorce so he can marry someone else.
Wei Xuan has had enough. That very day, she moves out and packs up every last one of her things.
After their divorce, her ex-husband wants to get back together.
He tries to persuade Wei Xuan: "Even if you remarry, you'll only find some ordinary commoner, a street peddler or laborer. What respectable family would accept a son-in-law, let alone marry off a daughter to a divorced woman?"
Wei Xuan is disgusted. She coolly listens to him finish, then is about to retort that he only made it to the capital because he'd married into a merchant family when someone kicks the door open. Before she can say a word, the newcomer tears into her ex-husband from head to toe, then boldly declares, "Who do you think you are?"
Wei Xuan watches her ex-husband flee in humiliation, then turns to the man beside her. "Thank you."
Seeing Wei Xuan about to leave, the man is just about to confess his feelings when the words that come out are: "Could you teach me how to use chopsticks?"
Wei Xuan: ?
Male lead's perspective:
Luo Ziheng was born surrounded by fine clothes and good food, if not for one thing: he had a twin sister.
Princess Cangluo had loved taking things from him since they were children, and was always bullying her little brother.
At a palace banquet when he was ten, she even mocked Luo Ziheng for not knowing how to pick up tofu with chopsticks!
Luo Ziheng was so angry he didn't speak to her for ten days. He shut himself away and practiced using chopsticks, but to no avail.
Then one day, he saw a woman on the street pick up a piece of tofu with her chopsticks. Luo Ziheng was instantly struck with awe and swore he would marry her.
Later, at a palace banquet with Princess Cangluo, she looked at the dishes in front of Luo Ziheng and was about to say something when he turned to the woman beside him. "Wife, I want this!"
Princess Cangluo froze for a moment. She watched Luo Ziheng look moved as he held up his bowl and said to the woman, "You're so good to me, dear. Thank you."
Princess Cangluo: ...
What kind of male demon is this? Give my little brother back, right now!
A supporting character is reborn.
******[Historical Romance Coming Soon]******
Two Who Can't Stand Each Other
Pei Yun schemes to marry the man her stepsister loves. She wants the two of them to pine for each other without ever getting together, then grow to despise each other and suffer together.
On their wedding night, as they sit in the bridal chamber by candlelight, he lifts her veil and looks momentarily surprised.
Pei Yun waits for him to demand an explanation, but he soon regains his composure and asks someone to prepare the nuptial wine.
Pei Yun: ?
When they return to her family home, Pei Yun waits for him and her stepsister to confess their feelings to each other so she can bring people along and catch them in the act.
A maid reports, "The young master returned the token of love!"
She catches sight of him tossing the jade pendant he'd just gotten back to a servant beside him.
Pei Yun: ?
She refuses to believe there's really anyone who'll stick to their duty!
Pei Yun schemes to make her stepsister reunite with him and cry about their love. But when he returns that very day, he takes her hand and says earnestly, "Rest assured, my lady. Since Chengzhang married you, I will never let you down."
Pei Yun: ?
If you don't let me down, how am I supposed to get a divorce?
******[Transmigration to Ancient Times Coming Soon]******
The Hard-to-Tame Wife
Yin Chuchu reads a novel recommended by a coworker, then transmigrates into the villainess Yin Chuchu the next day.
Coworker: "This character has the same name as you. I suggest you read the whole thing and memorize it."
Yin Chuchu thinks she's hinting at something, so that night she happily opens the story to see what hints it contains.
Then she sees the villainess die horribly. Yin Chuchu immediately curses, thinking her coworker is wishing her harm, but suddenly transmigrates.
Yin Chuchu protests: Why should he transmigrate into a woman's body just because his name is Yin Chuchu? Can he help what his parents named him?
Li Jing uses the money he's saved for a wife to marry a young bride. She's beautiful but can't do anything, and if he says one thing to her, she fires back ten. She's not the least bit virtuous.
He can't back out of the marriage, so Li Jing has no choice but to teach her little by little. But after all that teaching, he's still the one left cleaning up the mess.
Li Jing sighs. He married to find a companion, so how did he end up with a little tyrant?
Theme: Don't let the times hold you back.