My Husband Is the Villain, and I'm the Wicked Cannon Fodder

Jiang Wenlin transmigrates into a book, becoming the villainous male lead’s wicked husband in an ancient-era version of a novel about a fake heiress adored by everyone.

The original Jiang Wenlin was a deceitful, greedy poor scholar. After tricking Zheng Achun into marriage, he drained his wealth, caused the death of his half-brother, and planned to sell Zheng Achun, who was pretending to be insane, to a brothel for silver, even inviting his worthless friends to enjoy the show.

Now the plot has reached the point where the original Jiang Wenlin has ruined Zheng Achun’s reputation with a scheme. Zheng Achun is beside him, dressed in bright red wedding clothes and bound from head to toe with rope. A ball of red cloth is stuffed in his mouth, and he glares furiously at Jiang Wenlin.

His ill-intentioned aunt is pressuring Jiang Wenlin to sign and fingerprint the marriage contract.

Jiang Wenlin feels bitter. Zheng Achun is a pampered wildflower from a general’s household: delicate and pretty, but strong and resourceful. In the original story, he pretends to be insane and, at the cost of disfigurement and losing an arm, uses a gold hairpin to kill Jiang Wenlin and escape back to the capital. He changes his name and becomes a thoroughly villainous black lotus who opposes the protagonist.

And the original Jiang Wenlin was a despicable, shameless swindler who drove the villain to become evil.

Jiang Wenlin: "..."

All the pressure is on him. He’s just an unremarkable teacher preparing students for the civil service exam. He can’t follow the original plot’s deranged antics!

To avoid being thrown in prison, he grits his teeth and signs the marriage contract. Carrying his newlywed husband on his back and bringing along his half-brother, he leaves the city in a little horse-drawn cart, promising never to return to the capital.

They settle in a small county town, and Jiang Wenlin is so busy every day trying to support this pampered flower from the capital that his feet barely touch the ground.

Who would have thought that even in ancient times, he’d still have to suffer through buying a house and a car, buying clothes and jewelry, and hustling to get the kids through school?

Jiang Wenlin: "...Thanks to the god who sent me here for letting me experience working in ancient times to pay off a mortgage."

To support this delicate flower, he returns to his old profession and takes up part-time teaching. His student body grows and grows, from street vendors to scholars who pass the imperial examinations, and eventually even the Crown Prince...

Until one day, his husband tells him to take the imperial examinations.

His students, now civil and military officials at court: "Teacher, you’re the only one left."

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Zheng Achun is the treasured young master of the general’s household, a pampered darling showered with affection. His aunt is an imperial consort, his cousin is the Crown Prince, and his maternal grandmother is the old matriarch of a marquis’s house. He knows his status is noble, no less than that of some royal sons, and that whoever he marries would most likely be marrying up.

But he never imagined he could marry so far down into a ditch.

He had set his heart on his cousin from his maternal family, a gentle and refined male supporting character. Who knew a swindling hoodlum would plot against him and ruin his reputation?

Just then, the situation at court changed drastically. The Crown Prince was falsely accused of treason, the imperial consort hanged herself in her palace, and the entire Zheng family was implicated. Overnight, some were imprisoned and others exiled. His grandmother, the old matriarch, took ill and never recovered. Only he and his half-brother slipped through the net, and his aunt seized the chance to marry him off to a penniless, deceitful swindler!

The moment he was bound into the bridal sedan, he thought his life was over.

The swindler said he would take him to a small county town to live an ordinary life. Zheng Achun pretended to go along with it, all the while planning to escape at the first opportunity.

Far from the capital, he suffered from the change in climate. Looking at the dilapidated house in the courtyard, the wasteland, and the rats scurrying everywhere, he felt half his soul leave his body.

Day one: He thought, The swindler doesn’t beat, scold, enslave, or order me around. Once I’ve figured out an escape route, I’ll leave at once.

One month later: Damn swindler, he gives me only a tiny bit of pocket money. Once I’ve saved up a little more private cash, I’ll leave at once.

One year later: The swindler has fattened me up and made me look even more radiant. Damn it, I can’t give up. I’ll leave once my half-brother starts studying at the academy.

Two years later: The Crown Prince is exonerated, and the Zheng family is recalled to the capital as part of the amnesty.

Zheng Achun, who had made up his mind to live an ordinary, peaceful life with his husband of convenience: "???"

He returns to the capital with the best husband in the world.

The Zheng family, who had heard that their pampered young master had been kidnapped by a swindler and was missing, and were ready to wreak havoc in revenge: "???"

Jiang Wenlin: "This soft life came late, but it came."

Everyone in the capital, including the emperor, thought they would never see that pampered, haughty flower of wealth again. Who could have guessed he’d return with his utterly ordinary (crossed out) talented and precious husband, and an even more outrageous temper than before?

Everyone: "You call him a swindler?"

New novel coming soon, number two:

Synopsis one:

Pei Xingxuan is a pitiful little ghost. His parents don’t get along, his family is a mess, and he’s had a fate that brings misfortune to his relatives since childhood.

When he was five, his biological father was imprisoned, exiled, and died on the way. His body was never found.

When he was seven, his father coughed up blood and died, his soul gone.

When he was eleven, his grandfather fell gravely ill and cursed him as the bane of the Xie household before dying.

When he was twelve, an earthquake struck. His child bride and he were buried together beneath the collapsed walls, bringing about the tragic end of his entire family.

When he woke again, Pei Xingxuan was bound to a Little Pitiful System. He had been reborn, returned to a time before his two fathers had even conceived him.

This time, he swears to defy fate and change his family’s tragic ending. His first step is to ruin his parents’ relationship, preventing the birth of this ill-fated child and eliminating himself in the most literal sense.

His second step is to find the child bride who was kidnapped by human traffickers, help him reunite with his family, and end their engagement.

But he gets stuck at the first step, when he meets his young parents. Can someone tell him...

That village hoodlum who steals his money and is obsessed with gambling is actually his father, the eldest young master of the Xie household, a spoiled second-generation heir?

That village beauty who gathers herbs and saves lives, with peerless medical skills and a ruthless, domineering streak that makes everyone afraid to cross him, is actually his mother, the sickly, aloof heartthrob adored by everyone?

That weak, pitiful, undernourished child who looks like a kitten is actually his child bride, a domineering, fierce fighter who can take on ten people at once?

Pei Xingxuan is plunged into deep confusion about himself.

Thankfully, even after two lifetimes, his parents are still making a mess of things and can’t stand each other.

Pei Xingxuan thinks he’ll complete his first task soon. So he works hard to feed his pitiful little child bride, hoping to make him stronger so he can leave in peace.

He waits and waits for the moment when he can change fate and vanish in peace. But why does it seem like his parents’ relationship is getting better? And why is his child bride getting slimmer and more delicate, and becoming more and more attached to him?

Pei Xingxuan can’t make heads or tails of it.

A farming and child-rearing story: pitiful little Pei Xingxuan x child bride Bai Yue

Transmigrated, amnesiac, rich second-generation dad who does whatever he wants x aloof, adored-by-everyone mom who always gets his way

Synopsis two

Looking back on his brief twelve years of life, Pei Xingxuan thinks everything changed when he was five. After hearing that his biological father, Xie Zongyan, had died in an accident while being exiled, Pei Lanshu, who had always insisted on separating from his husband, spent five years traveling along the borderlands, but never found his father’s body. Everyone in the capital said his father would remarry and take him, the burdensome child, along.

Five years later, even as he lay dying, his father still murmured the name of the place where Xie Zongyan had been exiled.

In this life, rebellion breaks out in Zhongzhou. To escape the disaster, his two fathers take the whole village to the place of exile ahead of time. They set up camp, guard the border, and farm the land. Crossing snowy mountains and deserts, they lead the villagers in establishing a trade route through this bitterly cold region.

The story is told from the child’s point of view, so he is the top.

New novel coming soon, number one:

In his fourth year of college, medical student Fang Han flees abroad to study and switches fields to pursue a graduate degree in plant protection. His relatives are appalled, convinced the kid has gone crazy! He could be wearing a white coat and earning a salary of over ten thousand a month, but instead he insists on jumping into the agricultural college’s notorious pit and becoming an overseas student who farms? Going abroad just to farm?

With the inheritance his parents left him, Fang Han flies to an obscure Central Asian country. He plans to lie flat in the countryside abroad, but then the apocalypse arrives.

He has just one obsession: If I have to die, I’ll die as close to home as possible! And then he really does collapse in the place closest to his homeland. Just beyond a border marker, the earth suddenly caves in, burying him underground forever along with the dust.

When he opens his eyes again, eighty years have passed.

A group of people dig Fang Han out of the ground.

As soon as he wakes, he hears astonishing news: In the past eighty years, Blue Star has suffered countless disasters, including zombies, natural calamities, and asteroid impacts. Fang Han managed to avoid them all by lying flat. Now, although the world has entered the reconstruction era, the eighty-year apocalypse has left behind a pollutant called "Corrosion." It contaminates genes and causes species across the globe to mutate. Every plant that can be eaten is toxic, and humanity faces a severe food crisis. Farming is the only way to pull everyone back from the brink!

Even more absurdly, Fang Han is actually ninety-eight years old, an elderly gentleman eligible for a pension, but a bone-age test reveals he’s only eighteen!

Fang Han is stunned: So much for my promise to lie flat forever!

Get out there and farm!

And so the ninety-eight-year-old gentleman takes up his hoe and starts farming again. He farms and farms, and then, huh? How did I become a perfect evolution? Huh? How can I eliminate pollution? Huh? How did I become the God of Agriculture?

Theme: The universe is in ceaseless motion, and a noble person should strive without rest. You can’t live off your spouse.