The Real Heiress Refuses to Follow the Plot

Ten years after transmigrating, Tao Sheng unexpectedly discovers that she’s the true daughter and supporting female character in *A Lifetime of Glory*, a story about fighting for power within the household. According to the plot, she’s supposed to return to her birth father, Marquis Wen Yuan Shen Yu’s residence, and fight the fake daughter and true heroine Shen Ruojin until they’re at each other’s throats. On one side are the people in the marquis’s household, who keep her at a distance and dote on Shen Ruojin. Even making Shen Ruojin frown is treated as Tao Sheng’s fault. On the other side is her warm, witty aunt, along with her devastatingly handsome cousin, a top scholar. Tao Sheng makes her choice quickly. She refuses to be recognized by the marquis’s household and throws herself into the arms of her aunt and cousin. The Shen family can’t understand Tao Sheng’s decision. Her aunt is a widow with a family of children and no support. They can’t compare to the generations of nobility in Marquis Wen Yuan’s household. Her cousin Ji Yanming is still young and studying. He can’t compare to the Shen brothers, who received an excellent education from childhood. Everyone waits eagerly for Tao Sheng to come to her senses, regret her choice, and beg to be taken back. But as they wait, Ji Yanming achieves top honors in all three imperial examinations and earns credit for supporting the emperor. He rises to become a nobleman of the new dynasty and a powerful minister. They also watch Tao Sheng effortlessly become the heart of the capital’s aristocratic ladies’ circle, a renowned master of the six arts, and the recipient of the highest official honors... The Shen family once resisted recognizing Tao Sheng at every turn. Now they’re no longer worthy of her. According to well-informed sources, the Shen family has repeatedly brought out their genealogy book to beg to add Tao Sheng’s name to the first page, but she has turned them down every time... Now drafting: *I Transmigrated as the Legitimate Mother of the Imperial Exam Novel’s Male Lead*. Please add it to your collection~ One day, Lin Chuwei transmigrates into the villainous stepmother of Lu Zheng, the male lead of an imperial exam novel. After a series of foolish attempts to sabotage him, she’s destined to be cast out in disgrace. Not long after arriving, Lin Chuwei learns that her good-for-nothing father, who lives far away in Quanzhou, took advantage of her situation and extorted thirty thousand taels of silver from her husband, Lu Jin’an, before she even got into the bridal sedan. Lin Chuwei: ... She can already see how difficult life will be after she marries into a distant household. Luckily, her adopted son Lu Zheng is the male lead of an imperial exam novel. He spends all day with his books and has no interest in the household. Her husband, Lu Jin’an, is busy maneuvering for the throne in the capital, and hardly comes home once a year, let alone bothering her. According to the book, her husband and adopted son are both rare talents, handsome and brilliant. One is decisive and masterful; the other is exceptionally intelligent and bides his time before making his move. These are the sort of top-tier male leads that an ordinary woman like her couldn’t possibly handle. Staying away from the main characters is a basic professional skill for any cannon-fodder supporting character. Lin Chuwei never takes a gamble without a backup plan. While saving money and preparing an escape route, she writes a divorce agreement well in advance, revising it every day as circumstances change. The emperor is growing old and must choose an heir, so there’s always political turmoil inside and outside the court. At home, everything remains peaceful enough, until one day, her three-page divorce agreement is discovered... One more thing: the son isn’t the male lead’s, but he is the heroine’s. Theme: Happiness comes from hard work