Hold on, don't click yet. I'm going to make major revisions.
Song Yao, a young civil servant who had just passed her probation, woke up to find she had transmigrated into a book as a doomed maid with the same name.
Bad news: She was doomed from the start.
Good news: Her fellow captive was the powerful second male lead.
Using the whereabouts of her birth mother to pressure the powerful man into rescuing her from the bandits' stronghold, Song Yao attached herself to him.
The prince's illegitimate son and head of the imperial secret service, the powerful man in the book, was endlessly used by the male lead to clear obstacles and advance. After the male lead ascended the throne, he ended his story by killing himself. He was undoubtedly the book's most compelling, hapless victim. The sort that made the real fans furious!
Anyway, he's an insanely capable tool, so let me put this hapless man to work first.
Gathering evidence, doing business, starting charities... Song Yao, a desperate workplace warrior, kept stirring things up until she threw her benefactor, the powerful Gu, so far off the original plot that he avoided his early death and took a different path. His merit was immeasurable!
It's just that the powerful man was too generous. A little gold, jade, jewelry, or land deeds would have been enough. Why did he even send a pair of wild geese? That's a pretty unusual thank-you gift...
Xiao Qi: It's not a thank-you gift. It's a betrothal gift.
Theme: Defy fate and change your destiny, starting with yourself!
