The Cannon Fodder Supporting Lady in an Exile Story

Veterinarian Lin Xuexi transmigrates into the body of Lin Danyue, a cannon-fodder supporting female character in a story about exile to Lingnan. When she opens her eyes, she's in an inn. They've only been out of the capital for a day. The guards escorting the prisoners are drinking and eating meat inside, while the female lead, covered in mud, is hiding in the stables. As for her, she's a concubine, wearing prison clothes but running her fingers through her hair, with skin like jade and a slender waist, looking every bit the seductress as she prepares to entice a richly dressed young master at the inn into helping her escape. In the book, the original owner succeeds. She becomes the young master's concubine, earning the envy of the other exiled women. But within days he grows tired of her, and she is sold from one man to another as a concubine until she contracts a venereal disease and meets a horrific end. When the female lead and the others learn what happened to her, they all sigh over her fate. Now that Lin Xuexi has become Lin Danyue, she is the most beautiful of them all, and hasn't had time to cover herself in mud like the female lead. With such breathtaking looks, even if she doesn't choose the richly dressed young master, the guards nearby are also watching her like hawks. She steels herself and looks toward the man from Mobei sitting opposite the young master. He's tall and powerfully built, with a full beard and mismatched golden and silver eyes like a Persian cat. To outsiders, he looks especially frightening. The delicate woman throws herself into the arms of the man from Mobei and cries, "My lord, please save me." * Dugu Shuo is the emperor's cousin's son and has been made Marquis of Jingbei. After saying goodbye to a friend, he is on his way to his fief when a frail woman accosts him. Proud and upright by nature, he takes pity on her and brings her to his fief in Mobei, restores her status as a free citizen, and gives her fifty taels of silver so she can head south with a Jiangnan silk merchant caravan. He thinks the matter is settled, but then an inn called Tongfu opens beyond the pass, selling the strongest liquor in the world and the most fragrant roast meat. The herders even call her a divine envoy. The proprietress is a force to be reckoned with. She sells strong liquor, raises horses and cattle, keeps bees for honey, buys land and clears it to grow rice. She's practically a local landowner. She even claims to be... his outside woman, and no one around dares to cross her. * "I'm just a weak woman, and I don't care about those empty titles. You're a grown man, so why should you care about your reputation?" With a powerful tree to shelter beneath, Lin Danyue, who goes by the title of "outside woman," lives a life of utter comfort. She doesn't plan on getting married anyway. She'll enjoy being a proprietress, with fertile land and thousands of cattle and sheep. Every day she muddles through is another day of bliss. But somehow, she muddles her way into becoming a marquis's wife... and the founding empress. Screenshot saved on 2025.6.13. Theme: Live life with optimism