Clear the High-Difficulty Female-Dominant Dungeon in Three and a Half Minutes!

Xie Binghuan was shipwrecked during summer vacation and transmigrated into an unfinished matriarchal novel.

The good news: The original character was the second-in-command of a marquis's household, a person of noble status.

The bad news: This character was cannon fodder, and the household was about to be ruined. If she couldn't fulfill the original character's wish and save it, she'd be ruined too.

Xie Binghuan, with a calm expression: Other than math, which hasn't improved by a single point despite three months of practice problems, nothing can get to me anymore.

She got a disastrous start. Aside from a useless System that could only shout, "Nice!", she was a naive, clueless college student with zero social experience and no redeeming qualities to speak of.

Fortunately, it wasn't a big deal. The villainous husband she married, who hadn't turned evil yet, was not only stunningly beautiful, but also perfect in family background and talent, and his skills at fighting for power within the household were off the charts!

Doing missions isn't shameful.

But... what's going on? How did a thoroughly ordinary person like me suddenly become a legend revered by everyone? No! I just want to lie flat and be a lazy fish!

And you, stupid System! Why didn't you tell me sooner that my teammate was reborn? That's important!

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To sum up Cui Anmei's previous life: he did no good deeds and loved killing and setting fires.

After luring his lecherous mother-in-law into a trap and killing her, then poisoning his lame wife, Cui Anmei finally became the powerful head of his household, able to get anything he wanted.

But in the end, he hesitated for a moment because of feelings he had held since childhood, and lost. He met a miserable end, with no place to bury his body.

Reborn, Cui Anmei didn't want to repeat his previous life's mistakes. He schemed to marry Xie Binghuan, the second legitimate daughter of the Marquis of Jinling.

He had no limits and nothing left to lose in this life. He planned to drag everyone who had hurt, harmed, and tormented him down to hell with him. The Marquis of Jinling's household and his so-called wife were nothing but stepping-stones.

But whenever the depths of hatred threatened to drag him deeper, his wife in this life would tug at his sleeve:

Help me, darling! I promise this is the last (billionth) time!

Cui Anmei (smiling, keeping up his virtuous-husband act):

Your Ladyship, didn't you say that last time? If you have so much free time, you could find yourself a job.

Half a year later:

Xie Binghuan, just recovered from a serious illness: No, really, you don't have to. I can dress and eat by myself. Why don't you go check the account books instead, darling?

Cui Anmei: I don't believe you. You need me. You can't live without me.

Xie Binghuan: ...

She sighed and opened her mouth to be fed.

Cui Anmei sighed. "What would you do without me?"

#Weren't you saying this was a high-difficulty dungeon? How did I speedrun it?

#Oh, the boss became my teammate

Reason for entering the contest:

The heroine goes from being a useless wastrel at the beginning to using her agricultural knowledge to save people from famine and realize her own worth by the end.

Reader advisory:

1. The male and female leads aren't perfect characters.

2. The original male and female leads are portrayed negatively.

3. Matriarchal society, men can give birth.

4. Primarily a sweet romance.

5. The male lead's previous life may be hard to accept. He wasn't a virgin in his previous life!

6. Both leads have character growth arcs. Neither is a helpless vine.

****Coming soon: When a Soft Heart Gets Stuck with a Lovesick Fool

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Female lead's perspective:

Yi Feitai knew from early on that she was a character in a book, but she didn't want to follow her predetermined fate.

She didn't want to be a puppet on Heaven's strings. She only wanted to be herself.

One day, while out on a mission, she met Ying Xiaoli, one of the heroine's love interests. This hopeless romantic once said in the original story: "As long as I can be with the person I love, even if it's for a year, a month, a day, or the time it takes to burn one incense stick, I'd gladly give up all my cultivation."

Yi Feitai saw him nearly lose his life trying to improve the heroine's spiritual roots, while the heroine was still flirting with her other targets. She felt sorry for the poor fool and reached out to save him.

She never expected him to become attached to her.

Yi Feitai: Lovesick fools, stay away! It's contagious!

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Female supporting character's perspective:

Cheng Wei was someone who had transmigrated into a book. Her mission was to win over the domineering male lead.

So she appeared during the helpless boy's childhood, gave him warmth, and helped him find opportunities. Eventually, she became the most important person in his life. Even if she wanted the stars in the sky, Ying Xiaoli would tear a hole in the heavens to pluck them for her.

In front of other people, the male lead was a cold-blooded wolf, but with her, he was as docile as a puppy. Cheng Wei thought she had everything under control, so she decided to make a big move.

She would die in front of the male lead, sacrificing herself for him, and that would complete her final romance points.

But Cheng Wei never expected that, before she could do that, the male lead would suddenly tell her he had fallen for someone else.

Damn it! I'd spent eighteen years with you, taking hits for you and changing you, and it still doesn't compare to the three months you've spent with that woman?

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Male lead's perspective:

Ying Xiaoli was killed by the woman he loved.

He abandoned his bonded partner, Yi Feitai, on their binding day to save Cheng Wei, who had given him a whole new life.

So when Yi Feitai shut herself away in seclusion out of anger, he accepted it.

When her seclusion lasted three hundred years, he waited.

But he never expected that, on the day Yi Feitai emerged from seclusion, she wouldn't give him a chance to explain and would plunge a sword straight into his heart.

He thought that was the end of his life. But when he opened his eyes again, he had returned to the day he and Yi Feitai first met, hundreds of years earlier.

On the first day of his rebirth, Ying Xiaoli thought that they were too different, and it was best to go their separate ways.

On the second day of his rebirth, Ying Xiaoli thought that before cutting ties, he should find out why Yi Feitai had killed him. Of course, that definitely wasn't because he still had feelings for her. He just didn't want a devil in his heart to interfere with his cultivation.

One month after his rebirth, Ying Xiaoli heard that the senior brother of Yi Feitai's sect had feelings for her, and rushed out in the middle of the night with a sword to duel him.

Later...

Ying Xiaoli placed in her hands the same sword Yi Feitai had used to kill him in his previous life. "If one stab isn't enough, you can stab me again."

#He was once captivated by Cheng Wei's warmth. It felt so wonderful that he thought she was the only one who had it, so he risked his life for her.

Until he met a second person who had that same warmth.

But the second person with that warmth asked him, "Do you love the feeling of being in love, or do you love me?"

Theme: Love and growth are the eternal themes of life.