The Foolish Girl and the Grand Princess

When He Jiuwei transmigrated, the original owner, a complete fool, had been talked into getting married and having a child so someone would look after her in old age and bury her when she died. Red candles blazed as they were about to bow to Heaven and Earth.

The bride was a breathtaking beauty, a woman from a fallen aristocratic family favored by the former dynasty.

After the old court changed hands, she had been forced into the countryside. Tears in her eyes, she had no power to fight back.

At the sight of the beauty before her, He Jiuwei, who had just transmigrated, dropped to her knees with a thud.

What aristocratic woman? Wasn't she... the male protagonist's aunt from that period-style comic she'd read recently?

In the comic's brief epilogue, the male lead slaughtered his way across the land and restored the Yuan family's rule. The emperor himself welcomed back the Grand Princess, and the story recounted her pitiful life.

Born frail, she was sent to a convent in the mountains as a child to cultivate and never enjoyed any comforts. When she came of age and was brought back to the inner palace to become an imperial princess, the Yuan family's throne had already been usurped by rebels.

She narrowly escaped the imperial city and fled to a remote mountain, where she barely survived, starving all the while. Then a foolish woman forcibly married her and tormented her for some time. In the end, she even lost the ability to bear children forever.

He Jiuwei remembered clearly how beautiful the Grand Princess was in the comic. The author had even given her a special scene as a young imperial princess, at the age when she was just beginning to blossom, with a beauty like an immortal's. He Jiuwei had specifically looked up the fate of the foolish woman who had tormented the beautiful princess.

The male lead, her nephew, captured the woman and brought her to the palace. He had a prison built just for her, where every torture device known to history was used on her in rotation each day, but he never let her die easily.

He tortured the fool until she was neither alive nor dead, driven mad and turned into a wretched thing, with missing hands and feet, and kept tormenting her until she was over ninety.

He Jiuwei at the time: "666! Serves her right! Nicely done!"

He Jiuwei, now transmigrated as the "big fool": ...

Well... it was the sort of thing that could easily keep someone awake all night, night after night, having nightmares...

She felt she had to try to save the situation.

(Top, exclusive pairing, happy ending, romance-focused)

(Plays dumb but is actually clever, straightforward top × a sickly beauty who inspires pity)

Theme: Keep your heart turned toward the light, persevere, and fear no hardship.