The Wealthy Mother-in-Law and Daughter-in-Law Swap Bodies and Go Viral on a Variety Show [Book Transmigration]

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Blurb:

After half a year as Mrs. Jiang in name only, Jiang Lijiu suddenly dreams that she is living inside a book, as the cannon-fodder first wife of the powerful Jiang Chengyu.

After learning that the female lead's beloved first love exists, she makes trouble at every turn. She even drives her mother-in-law into the hospital with a serious illness. In the end, the powerful man flies into a rage and kicks her out with nothing, and she dies miserably in a cramped, dilapidated rental room.

At this rate, his first love will be back in the country in three months.

Jiang Lijiu: ...Thanks. If I ask for a divorce and leave now, can I still get alimony?

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Before retiring from the screen, Jiang Shiying was a decorated Best Actress. Proud and headstrong all her life, her only frustration was that her daughter-in-law, Jiang Lijiu, was far too "obedient". She simply wasn't the kind of daughter-in-law Jiang Shiying wanted.

One day, Jiang Lijiu visits Jiang Shiying. Before she can put on her wicked-mother-in-law act, the woman opposite her says earnestly, "Mom, I don't think Chengyu and I are right for each other. Forcing this marriage won't lead anywhere. Why don't we just get divorced?"

Jiang Shiying: ??? You stole my line!

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On their last trip to pray at a temple together, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law get into a car accident on the way back.

When Jiang Lijiu opens her eyes in the hospital, she sees her cheap husband holding her hand with concern. "Mom, are you all right?"

Jiang Lijiu: ??? Are you all right?!

They've switched bodies?!

Mother-in-Law and Daughter-in-Law Make Believe is a reality show about the lives of mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law. It features both famous celebrity families and successful people who have excelled in their respective fields.

The final pair of guests announced by the production team is Jiang Shiying and Jiang Lijiu!

Scene One:

When the show first starts, Jiang Shiying is still getting used to her new identity. She accidentally lets "Xiao Jiang" slip out.

Netizens are confused: Jiang Lijiu is so rude! She actually calls her mother-in-law by her name?

Later, "Jiang Shiying" personally responds: I like her calling me Xiao Jiang. It makes me seem younger. You heard wrong. Her Mandarin isn't very good, so she's gone back to practice recitation!

Scene Two:

The veteran, gentle actress Ye Yi is having afternoon tea with "Jiang Shiying". Just as she's about to use her passive-aggressive tricks to make a few cutting remarks, a nut gets stuck in her throat.

"Jiang Shiying" quickly gets behind her, wraps her arms around her, and vigorously moves her up and down. The Heimlich maneuver saves her life, and "Jiang Shiying" lands on the trending list.

The Red Cross reposts the post, encouraging everyone to learn from "Jiang Shiying" and pick up some basic first-aid skills.

Ye Yi's face is red as she chokes on the nut, barely conscious. The footage plays on an endless loop across the internet. Even paying to get it removed from the trending list doesn't work, and it even ends up in a public-service video on a national TV channel.

Scene Three:

"Jiang Lijiu" and Chen Wanyan, Ye Yi's daughter-in-law, are asked by the production team to film an advertisement for a sponsor. Chen Wanyan deliberately brings up the sword dance from the historical drama that made Jiang Shiying famous, hinting that "Jiang Lijiu" should learn from her mother-in-law.

"Jiang Lijiu" calmly rolls up her sleeves and performs the sword dance with effortless grace, stunning everyone!

A marketing account makes a comparison video of Jiang Lijiu and Jiang Shiying performing the sword dance. Netizens marvel: They're exactly alike! Is this the legendary mother-in-law and daughter-in-law connection?

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Before Mother-in-Law and Daughter-in-Law airs, netizens say: Isn't Jiang Shiying that has-been actress who retired early and had a child out of wedlock? Is she making a comeback to cash in?

After it airs, netizens say: Does Sister Ying have any more sons? As long as it's a man, I'm not picky! I just want to experience marrying into a wealthy family and being your daughter-in-law!

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, who have swapped bodies, have this to say: Acting in front of the whole country without breaking character is incredibly hard!

But... my mother-in-law/daughter-in-law doesn't seem quite like I thought she was?

Only after Jiang Chengyu returns from a business trip abroad that Jiang Shiying sent him on for several months does he realize: Am I kind of unnecessary in this family?

Jiang Shiying waves magnanimously: If Xiao Jiu wants a divorce, then let her divorce. Sister Ying will find you someone better. Let Jiang Chengyu and his supposed first love be!

Jiang Chengyu: ...Who is this first love?

Reader Advisory:

1. This is essentially a dual-female-lead story. The mother-in-law, Jiang Shiying, is a glamorous, proud actress and group chairwoman. The daughter-in-law, Jiang Lijiu, seems quiet and obedient but is actually as quick as a rabbit and full of wild ideas. The two go from knowing nothing about each other to becoming as close as sisters. Each has her own point of view and love interest.

2. The male lead is mostly in the background early on. The romance between the male and female leads begins only after the bodies are switched back.

3. The first-love storyline is a misunderstanding.

4. This is entirely fictional and has no real-life inspirations. Everything is made up by the author. Please enjoy the story, and feel free to come and go as you like~

---- Upcoming novel: Transmigrate into a Book and Marry into the Marquis's Household with My Bestie to Gossip and Watch the Show

The fragile college student Shen Lingyue dies after pulling an all-nighter gaming, then transmigrates into the legitimate daughter of the Minister of Rites in the Great Ye Dynasty. She's about to marry the second son of the Marquis of Changning's household.

When she arrives, her entire family is furious about the arranged marriage.

There's only one reason: the eldest legitimate son of the marquis's household is going to marry the original owner's sworn enemy, Zhou Yanyi, the eldest daughter of the General of Xuanwei.

Apparently, the two have disliked each other since childhood and fought openly and behind the scenes for over a decade. Now they're going to marry into the same marquis's household and become sisters-in-law?

Shen's mother wails: My daughter has been frail since childhood. How can she possibly compete with that wild girl from a military family? And now she has to call her big sister-in-law and watch her become the heir's wife?

Shen Lingyue rubs her hands together, eager for a fight: Don't worry, Mother. Your daughter has plenty of skills and tricks!

She's read three hundred palace-intrigue and household-intrigue novels. How could she lose to some ancient person?

The next day, Zhou Yanyi visits in person. Shen Lingyue thinks she's come to pick a fight, but then their eyes meet.

Oh! Isn't this her best friend Yanyi, the academic ace she's known since childhood?

How did you transmigrate here too?!

*

Shen Lingyue and Zhou Yanyi hide behind the bed curtains and whisper.

"What should we do? Run away from the marriage?"

"Let's wait and see. Maybe the Pei brothers are handsome. You take one, I'll take the other. Nobody loses ^_^"

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The Marquis of Changning's household is powerful and prestigious. By imperial decree, the two brothers are to marry on the same day, bringing double joy to the family.

The next day, when the brides pay their respects over tea, the two finally find a chance to meet.

"How was last night?"

"It was, um, okay."

"Then mine was okay too."

"Should we wait and see a little longer?"

"...Sure."

*

After Shen Lingyue has a fight with Pei the Second, she carries her pillow and tearfully heads to the main branch.

"Big Sister-in-Law, I'm sleeping with you tonight."

Zhou Yanyi silently glances at her husband. "How about you sleep in the study tonight?"

The heir of the marquis's household goes next door with a dark expression. "Can you give your wife some space?"

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Zhou Yanyi hears that the heir has a first love he holds dear. Usually gentle, she finally loses her temper. "Pei Jingyi, I want a divorce!"

Shen Lingyue immediately chimes in: "If you leave, I'm leaving too. You divorce him today, I'll divorce him tomorrow."

Pei Jinghuai, who had been enjoying the drama in the main branch, is dumbfounded. Since when does divorce come with a buy-one-get-one-free deal?

He rushes to find his elder brother, furious. "Hurry up and make your wife happy again, or I'll end up a bachelor too!"

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The people of the capital expect to watch the Marquis of Changning's household descend into chaos. They think the two sisters-in-law will make such a mess that the already strained relationship between the Pei brothers will get even worse.

But they wait and wait. The two young madams only grow closer, and their bellies grow one after another. Pei Jingyi successfully inherits the title, while Pei Jinghuai earns a marquisate through military achievements. With two outstanding men in one family, the Marquis of Changning's household becomes the most prominent noble family in the capital.

Reader's Guide:

Shen Lingyue is the main point-of-view character. A cheerful, fragile, laid-back freeloader paired with a sunny, cheerful man who's highly skilled in martial arts and has abs that are great to touch.

The second female lead is Zhou Yanyi. A cool-headed, highly intelligent academic ace paired with a calculating, possessive, tight-lipped jealous man.

#Married to the Right Man with the Wrong Script#

#My Bestie and I Gossip About Everyone in the Capital Every Day#

An everyday story, mainly about gossip and watching the drama, packed with melodrama and a little childish bickering in a marriage that starts before love.

---- Upcoming novel: My Husband Who Died in Battle Has Returned

Delicate yet resilient concubine-born young woman X a proper, aloof scholar in public, but actually unscrupulous, obsessive, and amoral

[Watch the refined, proper top scholar become a stand-in for love and climb through the window at night pretending to be her dead husband]

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Xu Shizheng, the fourth concubine-born daughter of the Minister of Rites

Born with flawless skin and stunning beauty, she can only hide beneath her legitimate elder sister's radiance, carefully struggling to survive in the inner household.

At sixteen, her stepmother arranges her marriage to the Empress's nephew, the promising young General Zhou.

Everyone in the capital praises Madam Xu for her virtue.

Only Xu Shizheng feels uneasy.

The young General Zhou was the husband her stepmother carefully chose for her legitimate daughter. Why is he suddenly being given to Xu Shizheng?

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On their wedding day, the border is in crisis. The groom receives an imperial order to set off for the front before even lifting her veil.

A month later, news arrives that he has died in battle at the border. Xu Shizheng is widowed almost as soon as she enters the household.

The Emperor posthumously grants the young General Zhou the title of Marquis of Zhenbei. Xu Shizheng becomes the marchioness, and is expected to adopt an heir to carry on her late husband's line. There is no possibility of returning to her family and remarrying.

On the forty-ninth night after her husband's death, Xu Shizheng is hiding under the covers, secretly crying over her miserable fate, when the back window suddenly swings open.

"Madam, I'm back."

Xu Shizheng has crumbs from a pastry stuck to her face, and hasn't had a chance to wipe them away. ...Has a corpse just come back to life?!

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By day, Xu Shizheng manages the marquis's household accounts and uses her wits to deal with the Zhou family's awful relatives, working hard to fit into the capital's upper circles.

At night, she has to be intimate with her "dead husband," who appears and disappears mysteriously while carrying out secret missions for the Emperor. She hasn't had a single full night's sleep.

Lying on the bed, she yawns again and again, her soft, broken voice tinged with tears as she asks her husband when he can return home openly.

He keeps moving, gently brushing his fingertips over her hair and back. "A Yuan, just hold on a little longer. It'll be soon."

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Until one day, she catches sight of a flash of red official robes on the street, and an extraordinarily handsome profile.

Someone nearby says that's the only son of the Princess Royal, the newly crowned top scholar, Lord Xue Lin.

Xu Shizheng frowns. The top scholar... why does he look so much like the husband who sneaks into her room every night?

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Before her engagement, Xu Yining has a dream. She dreams that after marrying the young General Zhou, she becomes a widow. Unable to endure the loneliness, she secretly meets someone and is caught and reported by her mother-in-law. The Empress is enraged and confines her to an estate outside the city, where she suffers terribly and dies of cold and hunger.

Meanwhile, her timid concubine-born younger sister, who was the least noticeable person in the family, is casually married off by their father to a newly graduated scholar. She follows him out of the capital to take up a post. A few years later, he earns great merit in river management and rises through the ranks, becoming a second-rank river commissioner before the age of thirty, two ranks higher than their father.

Xu Yining does everything she can to switch marriage partners with her younger sister. Sure enough, not long afterward, news arrives that the young General Zhou has died at the border. She laughs aloud at home.

But she waits and waits. Not only does she fail to see her younger sister suffer as a widow, she watches her thrive in the capital as a marchioness.

Then, at court one day, the Princess Royal's only son, the newly crowned top scholar, actually asks the Emperor for permission to marry her widowed younger sister, despite his brotherly bond with the young General Zhou?

Xu Yining falls apart. After being sent away from the capital, she forces her husband to work harder every day: Go manage the rivers, now!

Her husband is completely baffled. He's spent over a decade studying for the civil service exams. What does he know about water conservancy?

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Reader's Guide:

Sisters switch marriage partners / forced love / first X, then love / steals his brother's wife / groveling after his identity is exposed

The male lead is very bad! But he'll get down on his knees and beg to be the female lead's dog :)

Focused mainly on romance, with the female lead's career gradually unfolding later on.

Set in an alternate world. Everything serves the plot.

Initial inspiration from February 2023, screenshots saved as proof.

Theme: Learn to put yourself in another person's shoes and communicate sincerely. Only then can you exchange hearts.