A Guide to Self-Rescue for the Sickly Supporting Female Character

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Chu Miao transmigrated into a melodramatic tragedy. In the story, the male and female leads tortured each other and swung between love and hate for over a million words before finally reaching a happy ending.

The good news: she wasn't the female lead.

The bad news: she was the wicked stepmother who caused Qin Mingcheng to go from a model young man to a sinister, powerful official. She abused him when he was young, then framed the female lead and sabotaged her repeatedly after being driven from the household. In the end, she was executed by a thousand cuts, a truly gruesome fate.

When Chu Miao found this out, she was already seated in a red bridal sedan, about to marry Qin Ji Yan, the male lead's father. The Marquis of Ding'an held overwhelming power and commanded a mighty army. She was to become his second wife.

Qin Ji Yan was just as the rumors described: uninterested in women, stern, and dull. On their wedding night, he merely said, "Take good care of Mingcheng and manage the household. As long as you behave yourself, I'll ensure you live in wealth and comfort for the rest of your life."

Her husband was rich and never came home.

As Chu Miao lay pretending to be ill and spitting blood, trying her best to avoid taking charge of the household, she looked at the thick ledgers. ...Maybe being a stepmother wasn't so bad after all.

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Qin Mingcheng was reborn, back to the time when that woman had just married into the family.

He knew his stepmother acted gentle and frail in public but was really a snake-hearted viper. This time, he wanted her to live a long life and suffer the hatred he'd accumulated over two lifetimes.

On the second day after the wedding, Qin Mingcheng knelt in front of her, waiting for her to splash hot tea on him as she had in his previous life. As he calculated how to get revenge, he heard her make a delicate "tsk."

"Get up," she said, giving him a strange look. "If little kids kneel too long, they won't grow tall."

A crack appeared in Qin Mingcheng's icy expression. Who are you calling a little kid!

When the results of his local examination were posted and he earned first place, Chu Miao, who should have framed him for bribery and cheating, rented out every restaurant in the capital. She hung banners and had people beat drums and set off firecrackers, the noise stretching from the eastern end of the city to the western end.

She even gave the academy's teacher a silk banner.

Qin Mingcheng: Excellent, her schemes have evolved... How is this not just another way to humiliate him?

He saw it all as the woman's sinister ploys and guarded against her even more. It wasn't until one day, when he saw her deathly pale and unconscious, that he realized a long life was a luxury she might not get.

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All Qin Ji Yan knew was that his seemingly frail and kind wife had a terrible temper. She flew into a rage at the slightest provocation and cried if anyone touched her. Her attempts to feign illness were full of holes, and her affected manner was enough to make one's scalp crawl.

He thought he would hate women like her most of all.

Until Chu Miao frowned and complained, "That's too heavy. Switch sides."

Qin Ji Yan was massaging her shoulders. He obediently eased his pressure and leaned close to her ear. "Since I've been so well-behaved, can I come back to our room tonight?"

#A lazy fish scrambles to stay alive and becomes a winner in life# #Seeking tips for coughing up blood into the wind, urgent# #What do I do when my husband comes home every day? I can't take it# #A single-from-birth woman confidently teaches her sickly, obsessive stepson how to date... Who taught you to lock someone up before asking them out!#

Notes:

1. Both leads are virgins; the son is not her biological child. Age gap and size difference.

2. The male lead is a stern, fatherly type; the female lead is sickly and spoiled; the son is a sinister madman. Nobody is normal.

3. Sweet story, sweet story, happy ending.

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Theme: A good life depends on you