Liu Qinghe transmigrates into a domestic-strife novel. The protagonist attempts suicide, is reborn, and gets caught up in bloody turmoil. It's all very exciting.
But Liu Qinghe... becomes a nobody with no connection whatsoever to the protagonist.
Liu Qinghe is more than happy to stay out of it. She settles into her quiet life as a servant in a large household and carefully picks a good husband. But on their wedding night, her husband is seized and conscripted into the army.
Liu Qinghe: "..." She'd been enjoying the good life for so long that she'd forgotten this was part of the plot.
It's fine. They'll win the war. Just wait!
Five years later, the army indeed returns in triumph after crushing the Northern Rong. Liu Qinghe's husband has even earned the greatest merit, and once his rewards are bestowed, he'll have a bright future ahead of him!
Everyone envies Liu Qinghe for having made it through hardship and come out on top. Now she'll get to be an official's wife.
Liu Qinghe is delighted, too. Just the day before, she'd cooked porridge for her husband, all sweet and happy. But when she wakes the next morning, she's in the arms of the General of Dingbei, the original male lead, Fu Jiuyuan!
Liu Qinghe is stunned. Did I transmigrate again?!
No.
It turns out her husband has offered her to his superior in exchange for a promising future.
Liu Qinghe is devastated: Couldn't you have offered me to any other superior?!
Fu Jiuyuan, a man fated to die young, is a born harbinger of death, ruthless and decisive, with a fearsome reputation. He's personally cut off the heads of tens of thousands of Northern Rong soldiers.
In the original novel, the original heroine, Luo Wenshu, is afraid to marry him and hangs herself. Only then can the modern heroine be reborn in her body.
Liu Qinghe: "..." She's spent over a decade taking it easy since transmigrating. How could she possibly compete with the heroine and the other female characters for a terrifying male lead like this?!
Run! She has to run! And keep running without stopping!
*
Her eleventh escape attempt.
Now the general's wife, Liu Qinghe carries a bundle and is just about to slip out through the back courtyard gate when she sees Fu Jiuyuan waiting outside, sitting astride his horse with a saber at his side.
A smile hides in Fu Jiuyuan's eyes as he raises an eyebrow. "Qingqing, you can run if you like, but leave my child behind first."
Her plan falls apart. Liu Qinghe frantically covers her belly. I'm doomed, I'm doomed, I'm doomed! How did this bastard find out I'm pregnant? Is he going to cut the baby out of me?!
Fu Jiuyuan: "???"
Reader notes:
1. Both leads are sexually inexperienced.
2. A sweet story, with no angst, really.
Theme: Rely on a mountain and it may crumble; rely on people and they may leave. Only by standing firm on your own can you be secure.