The Wicked Concubine (Transmigrated into a Book)

It's a happy ending, it's a happy ending, it's a happy ending. Important things are said three times.

In the old days, horses and carriages were slow, letters traveled far, and by the time a woman had just reached her parents' home, her husband had already taken a concubine.

In the old days, horses and carriages were slow, letters traveled far, and in a frantic rush, before she had even made it home, her husband had died.

In the old days, horses and carriages...

To hell with horses and carriages being slow and letters traveling far! Qin Mingyue stayed up late reading a female-led novel called The Tale of General Qingluan. She loved the story overall; it was just the heroine's tragic backstory that was too outrageous.

The heroine's family had been living a perfectly happy life, until her paternal grandparents took advantage of her mother visiting her own family to force a concubine on her father. The matchmaker praised the woman to the skies, claiming she came from a respectable family and had a clean background. But the concubine's brother was a local thug, and he beat the heroine's father to death after a petty quarrel.

Not long afterward, the heroine's paternal grandparents died of grief over the loss of their only son. Less than three months after the heroine's mother returned, she was killed, too.

The concubine took the heroine's family's enormous fortune and lived in luxury, while the poor girl had no choice but to stay by the concubine's side and survive by reading the room.

Before falling asleep, Qin Mingyue remarked that the novel had gone to ridiculous lengths to give its heroine a rage-inducing backstory.

The next day, she woke up in a swaying carriage, with a girl of six or seven beside her calling, "Mother, we're home."

Just like that, Qin Mingyue had transmigrated into the early-dead mother of the heroine.

Waiting outside the carriage was the concubine, Madam Liu. Her foxlike eyes seemed to hook and ensnare people, as if she were ready to suck the marrow from their bones and steal their souls. Even in coarse mourning clothes, her voluptuous figure was impossible to hide. With a slender waist swaying at every step, she approached gracefully and paid her respects to the principal wife.

Many of the male guests who had come to pay their respects couldn't tear their eyes away.

Qin Mingyue immediately decided she would teach this woman called Madam Liu how to behave, for the heroine's sake!

Only later, after the misunderstandings were cleared up, did she learn of all the twists and turns involved. As it turned out, Madam Liu was not the villain everyone believed her to be.

"Madam Liu, how about I give you a courtesy name?"

"A courtesy name?"

"Yes. How about Bilu? Liu Bilu."

"Bilu?"

"It's the finest green tea. Ordinary households can't get their hands on it."

Please add my upcoming novels The Old A Cries and Her Shadow Guard to your reading list.

Theme: Even ordinary people have their moments to shine.