Lin Wei transmigrated into a book.
She became the scum cannon-fodder who forced the vicious female supporting character into marriage in the original story.
The vicious antagonist Yu Zhizhi could at least be called a beautiful madwoman. But Lin Wei abducted women, committed every kind of evil, and had even snatched Yu Zhizhi away herself. She was a character who wouldn't survive past the first chapter.
The scum of all scum, the strongest fighter among cannon fodder.
On the day Yu Zhizhi returned to her parents' home, she was tricked into a fire and burned to death, neatly written out of the story.
Lin Wei's vision went dark. There were still three months until Yu Zhizhi's return visit.
To stay alive, she spent the night writing herself a survival guide, also known as The Twenty-Four Filial Rules for a Devoted Wife. She followed it day after day, never daring to take a single step out of line.
Yu Zhizhi had no chance to put her medical skills to use, so Lin Wei paid for and helped establish a clinic for her.
When people slandered Yu Zhizhi, Lin Wei argued with them all and shielded her fiercely, like a mother hen guarding her chicks.
In outsiders' eyes, Lin Wei loved her wife more than life itself. They said the Wei in Lin Wei meant that she always obeyed her wife. But only Lin Wei knew she was doing it all just to survive.
Together, they made the clinic more and more famous. And at last, Yu Zhizhi met the person she had loved desperately in the original story.
Lin Wei stayed up all night writing a letter, then laid the divorce papers before Yu Zhizhi:
"The clinic is yours. I don't want anything. Zhizhi, from now on, we owe each other nothing. You're free."
Lin Wei thought Yu Zhizhi would be happy to leave a scoundrel like her. But Yu Zhizhi gazed at the divorce papers, her long lashes casting shadows beneath her eyes, as if her heart were being torn apart. Then she gave a faint smile:
"What is Wife talking about? Zhizhi doesn't understand."
How could they owe each other nothing?
At first, she had hated Lin Wei to the bone. But after Lin Wei stood in front of her time and again, encouraging her again and again, Yu Zhizhi realized that she could no longer take her eyes off Lin Wei.
On countless nights, Yu Zhizhi had tossed and turned. Lin Wei seemed to love her, but she had never once seen herself reflected in those bright eyes.
So Lin Wei had planned to divorce her from the very beginning.
So all those sweet words and vows Lin Wei had spoken were lies meant to fool her.
Yu Zhizhi tore up the divorce papers with her own hands. That night, she put on the sheer gauzy clothes she had once found disgusting and sat in Lin Wei's lap. Lin Wei's face was flushed, and she had been affected by the scent of yilan incense.
Those slender, pale hands that had healed the sick and killed countless people stroked Lin Wei's cheek, then guided Lin Wei's hand to undo her clothes.
The once proud and ruthless villain Yu Zhizhi breathed sweetly against her, her voice gentle yet dangerous:
"Wives are supposed to consummate their marriage."
"Let's have a child. Then Wife won't leave Zhizhi."
* This is a women's kingdom. After consummating their marriage, women can have children by drinking a special kind of water.
* The antagonist has gone mad and will really have a child.
* A warning: Yu Zhizhi is a real antagonist, a real antagonist, a real antagonist!
Advance preview: After Selling My Wife for Glory, My White Moonlight Turned Dark
Mei Zhihan transmigrated into a book, becoming the vicious antagonist doomed to lose her family and be exiled a thousand miles away by the male lead.
And the ill-fated maid in her household, Wen Fei, would eventually become one of the women in the male lead's harem.
To save her own life, Mei Zhihan decided to act first. Before the male lead could ask for Wen Fei's hand, she forced her into marriage with a marriage contract, changing both their fates from that moment onward.
Much later, Prince Yong came to the capital looking for his daughter.
Mei Zhihan knew Wen Fei's chance to rise to greatness had arrived. She personally set Wen Fei free and handed her divorce papers that read: "Having no children, I request a divorce."
To protect Wen Fei's reputation, she would rather bear the mockery of being unable to perform as a husband.
She had calculated everything, except Wen Fei's heart.
Wen Fei, who had raised Mei Zhihan with great hardship, never imagined that in the end she was nothing more than an object Mei Zhihan traded for a promising future and rewards.
She hated Mei Zhihan for deceiving her again and again.
When they met again, Mei Zhihan had risen in rank and grown rich. Matchmakers were beating down her door, and she was about to remarry.
That very night, the newly appointed and exalted princess had her bound and dragged back to her private residence.
On the bed, Wen Fei, reeking of alcohol, straddled her. She gripped Mei Zhihan's throat and poured medicinal wine that stoked desire down her throat, her eyes wild with madness. "Let's see what happens when someone who can't perform as a husband drinks this."
Mei Zhihan's clothes were soaked through. She coughed in a miserable heap, yet forced herself to stay composed. "Why would a princess of your standing debase herself? What will you do if word gets out?"
"Pregnant? Since you can't perform as a husband, how could I possibly be pregnant?"
"But if I really were... that would be a crime of deceiving the throne. Mei Zhihan, would you still be able to keep your head?"
Core message: Cherish the person by your side.
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