Transmigrated as the Cannon-Fodder Ex-Wife of the Protagonist Gong

After being hit by a car, a straight man transmigrated into a danmei novel while on the brink of death. He became the down-and-out protagonist gong's early-dead, gold-digging ex-wife, a cannon-fodder character. He woke up in a hospital bed, his hand wrapped in thick bandages, with a tall, handsome stranger sitting beside him.

He felt that something was wrong with his body. After feeling around, he discovered that he had somehow gained a female organ. He was now an intersex person with a husband, and had been sent to the hospital after slashing his wrists in an attempt to get a divorce.

The man guiltily held his hand. "Axuan, I promised your father I'd take good care of you. Believe me, I'll give you a good life. Can't you stay with me?"

In this unfamiliar world, the straight man could only depend on the other man for now. He would pretend to be his wife and take things slowly, planning to ask for a divorce once he understood this world and could fend for himself.

The protagonist gong noticed that the wife who used to cause trouble at every turn had been much more well-behaved lately. He wasn't refusing to eat or demanding a divorce anymore. The gong had originally married him only because his benefactor, on their deathbed, had entrusted him with their care. Gradually, he found himself drawn to the wife played by the straight man.

The straight man was too embarrassed to sleep with his husband. Ever considerate, his usually gentle husband agreed not to touch him until he had recovered from his hospital stay.

As it turned out, the gong's hard times were only temporary. With his original troublemaking wife no longer holding him back, the protagonist gong, a promising stock, prospered faster than in the original story, his career thriving. He moved into a huge mansion and kept his promise, giving his wife the kind of comfortable life countless people envied.

As time went on, his husband's thoughtfulness melted the ice of resistance in the straight man's heart, like a gentle spring rain. When they finally slept together, he learned firsthand why the book had been shelved in the danmei section on the strength of the protagonist gong alone. The gong was especially good at it. The very next day, the straight man's soul left the body and returned to his own, back in the original world, which had been in a vegetative state.

Back in reality, he saw his family tearfully overcome with joy at his awakening. The straight man looked around in a daze, feeling no joy at having returned to his original world. His heart felt empty.

Life returned to its old routine. He went to work and carried on as usual, but his body gradually began to change, as if being remade. He kept having strange bouts of discharge accompanied by an inexplicable itch, and at night he missed his husband terribly. Even the hospital couldn't figure out what was wrong.

Standing in front of a mirror, he was startled to see a bright red beauty mark appear at the corner of his eye. It was the original cannon-fodder ex-wife's!

His plain looks were growing more and more like the bewitching, tender beauty of the character in the book. Even the people around him remarked that his skin had improved.

The original wife liked to use expensive skincare products, but after the family fell on hard times, his husband couldn't afford to buy them for him. Later, after the straight man transmigrated into the book, his husband used several months' wages from working construction to buy a jar of luxury face cream at a department store as a gift for his wife's discharge from the hospital.

The straight man took it and glanced at it. "Take it back for a refund." When his husband hesitated, he pointed casually at a tin of Snow Cream in the corner of the nurses' station, the kind nurses used to moisturize their hands. "I'll just use that."

He disliked anything feminine. Even after they were better off, he only used Snow Cream. Even without expensive skincare, his face remained beautiful and radiant. His husband, who spent so much time close to him, even began to carry the scent of Snow Cream on his body.

After returning, he stopped using Snow Cream so he wouldn't be reminded of him.

Why did he suddenly remember it after coming home from work and looking at the darkened room?

Because he seemed to smell the familiar, sweet scent of Snow Cream again. A faint fragrance drifted through the air, stirring his thoughts. A sense of danger washed over him. It was as if something lay in wait in the darkness.

He startled and flicked on the light. His once-gentle husband stood before him, eyes bloodshot. The handsome face he had kissed countless times was now cold and sinister, staring down at him.

And in his hand was the report from his hospital follow-up, which had just confirmed that he was intersex.

Theme: Face your heart and make your choice.