(I'm no longer chasing the rankings. This is a short, sweet story of around 100,000 characters, updated daily until completion. Please add it to your favorites, dear readers!)
Ming Zhao transmigrates into a book with an athletic system, becoming the original wife of the male lead, Zhong Ningshuo.
She's just an obstacle in the way of the male and female leads falling in love. To preserve the male lead's chastity, the original story establishes that she's sickly and estranged from her husband, and that she dies not long after they marry.
Ming Zhao arrives on the day she and Zhong Ningshuo are wed. His eyes are full of cold indifference.
Ming Zhao: So my task is to conquer this jerk?
System: No. Host's task is to master an athletic skill. Reach the advanced level, and you can return to the real world.
Ming Zhao: Oh yeah! I'll choose horseback riding.
Later.
Everyone knows that Zhong Ningshuo, Marquis of Zhenyuan, is handsome, cold, and distant, yet he cares for his wife, Lu Mingzhao, like no one else.
And the sickly beauty who used to spend all day cooped up in her room is now not only strong and healthy, but even rides into battle to drive off invading tribes. Thanks to her military achievements, she's granted the rank of first-class noblewoman!
A ham who only cares about leveling up x a cold-faced, warm-hearted blockhead. Married first, love later.
Coming soon: Matchmaking Queen Transmigrates as a Doomed Princess (Transmigration)
Hua Ling wakes up one day to find herself transmigrated into a book featuring a heroine adored by everyone, as a cannon-fodder supporting character.
In the book, all five princes of Southern Qi fall for the heroine. They scheme and fight among themselves to win her heart, wasting away much of the nation's strength.
In the end, Southern Qi's archenemy, Northern Liang, breaches the capital. Hua Ling is the Sixth Princess of Southern Qi, who gives her life for her country on the day the city falls.
At the Mid-Autumn family banquet, Hua Ling meets all her brothers.
The eldest is aloof and proud, the second upright and kind, the third brave in battle, the fourth a brilliant strategist, and the fifth sunny and sincere.
At this point, they haven't yet met the heroine, and the Southern Qi royal family is still enjoying a harmonious life of brotherly affection.
Hua Ling, once a top matchmaker at a matchmaking agency: I feel like there's still a chance to save my life.
All she has to do is find her brothers suitable partners before they fall for the heroine!
So Hua Ling spends her days worrying over her brothers' marriages, diligently building her matchmaking business into a thriving enterprise.
One by one, her brothers find their true loves, and each of her sisters-in-law dotes on Hua Ling.
Eldest sister-in-law: Sixth Sister, come try the osmanthus cakes I just made!
Second sister-in-law: Sixth Sister, let me play you a tune to cheer you up.
Third sister-in-law: Sixth Sister, I caught you a little rabbit while hunting!
Fourth sister-in-law: I'm in a good mood today, so I'll give Sixth Sister a whole city!
Southern Qi grows stronger by the day, but in the end, the Northern Liang army still reaches the gates of the capital.
Dressed in her finest, Hua Ling walks up onto the city wall and gazes at the ruler of Northern Liang, who has come from afar.
He wears a scarlet battle robe and sits astride his horse at the head of a vast army, his eyes blazing like torches.
Hua Ling suddenly recalls how, years ago, this hostage prince from the north got drunk on the city wall and mocked himself: "The Sixth Princess shines like the bright moon in the sky. How could someone as wretched as me ever presume to lay a hand on her?"
Now, he has become a blazing sun.
A pampered princess x a world-weary hostage prince. A sweet story of redemption.
Theme: Build a strong body and serve your country.
