After waking up in an ancient romance novel as its delicate, helpless heroine, Xu Zhaoqin stayed calm. Then she remembered how the plot went...
Xu Zhaoqin: "You expect a PhD from an agricultural academy, a famous online author, a crafty DIY expert, and the eighteenth-generation heir to the Xu family cookbook to play a helpless little crybaby who knows nothing about food or hard work?"
Sorry, she couldn't do it.
A delicate heroine only needs to lie flat, with her brothers protecting her and the hero doting on her, and she'll reach the top. But Xu Zhaoqin believes in independence!
When the family falls on hard times, the plot says she should wait for the hero to bail them out. Sorry, she can feed the whole family by farming on her own.
If bandits ambush her on the road, she should wait for the hero to rescue her. Sorry, who says a woman can't wield a broadsword?
If she wants to survive, she has to become the hero's concubine? No way! A hoe in one hand and a cooking spoon in the other, as long as she's alive, she'll never run out of firewood.
As time went on, the hero grew more and more disheartened. The woman he liked was better than him at everything, never relied on him, and won over the appetites of princes and nobles and the hearts of noblewomen with her own abilities, gathering a crowd of admirers with stars in their eyes.
Si Chengxue: "If this keeps up, what's going to be left of my manliness?" (punches the wall)
Xu Zhaoqin, having strayed far from the main plot, suddenly remembered her mission: to make the hero who wanted to protect her stronger by acting helpless.
Xu Zhaoqin tilted her head and looked at Si Chengxue, who was writing furiously beside her. Now that she was stronger, the hero seemed to be working even harder!
Theme: We help each other become better people
