The Scheming Beauty Transmigrates Into a Pitiful Young Widow

After Master Qiao suddenly died on his wedding day, the First Madam of the Qiao household became a nun, and the Second Madam hastily remarried. The only young master left, Qiao Chaoqi, had no choice but to take in the tragic, newly widowed young concubine who had nowhere else to go.

Though the concubine's chastity arch stood tall, she was always looking at him with tearful eyes, like a delicate, helpless little rabbit.

Impossible not to feel sorry for her.

Qiao Chaoqi assumed she was a beautiful woman from a poor family seeking his protection. Even when she repeatedly found ways to exchange flirtatious glances with him, he dismissed it as an attempt to climb the social ladder and paid no mind.

Until the top-scoring scholar in the imperial exams petitioned the emperor to annul Master Qiao's already ridiculous marriage, declaring that he had fallen in love with Miss Yu.

Until his sworn enemy, the general's youngest son, announced that if Qiao Chaoqi helped him marry Miss Yu, he would switch his allegiance to the Fifth Prince's faction, where Qiao Chaoqi served.

At last, Qiao Chaoqi began to frown, taking his rather capable Miss Yu seriously.

Yu Shengge had transmigrated.

On her first day after transmigrating, she snuck out at midnight with twenty taels of silver, taking all her gambling-addict elder brother's funds.

On her second day, she calmly ate a whole plate of candied fruit beside the corpse of a rotten old man who had tried to abduct a young woman despite his advanced age.

On her third day, she recalled the serial deaths of candidates from the original novel, took the silver she'd swiped from her gambling-addict brother, and bet on the only survivor to become top scorer in the imperial exams.

Yu Shengge, who had made a fortune from her perfect transmigration: ...Well, doesn't that count?

Later, when she was caught up in a conflict, her former husband's adopted son claimed he had lost everything to protect her. He took her hand and lowered his handsome eyes, his voice trembling:

"I may not have their high rank, wealth, and splendor. Now, all I have is you, Auntie."

The top-scoring scholar and the young general: "? Didn't you just have your arm around the new emperor?"

Young Magistrate Qiao continued: "But you won't abandon me, will you, Auntie? After all, I ended up like this for your sake."

The top-scoring scholar and the young general: "..."

Yu Shengge: "...?"

So Young Magistrate Qiao's way of courting someone was emotional blackmail.

Young Magistrate Qiao: "We're just pretending to play along with each other."

Note: It wears the trappings of a mystery, but at heart, it's a love story.

The leads begin their relationship after the heroine leaves the hero's household, when they are no longer connected by even a false blood relationship. No intimacy takes place before then.

Theme: You'll always meet the one who was made for you.