I Became the Male Lead's Crazy Ex-Wife

“She is the blue and radiant Sargasso Sea cradled by the North Atlantic, not the green phantom wandering the moors of England, and certainly not the shroud quietly rotting in the attic at Thornfield Hall.” – Chen An transmigrated, unfortunately, into the nineteenth century. She became a disposable villainess in Jane Eyre, the hero’s original wife, imprisoned by him: the so-called “madwoman in the attic.” Bertha Mason. She was just eighteen, not yet Mrs. Rochester, whose very existence her husband would erase, but a wealthy young woman in a British colony. Before long, she was due to leave the sun-drenched West Indies and be taken by her fiancé, Edward Rochester, to the cold, gloomy, ancient moors of England. Of course she refused. Aboard the ocean liner crossing the Atlantic, she made use of a dangerous, mysterious man. With his influence behind her, she took her thirty thousand pounds in dowry and got off the ship halfway through the voyage without a hitch. Farewell, Poseidon! Farewell, my roaring former fiancé! Like a bat escaping from hell, she fled to London without looking back. But this was only the first step toward changing her fate. In the years to come, she invested in emerging industries and doubled her fortune. In a slum, she rescued a pastor surnamed Ai and his pregnant wife, then paid for them to move away from an epidemic zone. She became the unseen fairy godmother of a young Jane Eyre. Years later, when she was delighted to hear that Jane had become an independent teacher, Bertha the Great, commercial magnate of Chelsea and London’s richest woman, imagined the Bertha she had once been, the young woman from Jamaica, finally free of the curse of madness and living on a green ranch carpeted with cinquefoil. This time, their lives held no hardship and no fear. They had no need to fight, nor to run away. “You have to respect me before you can love me.” From then on, the young prime minister’s hawk-like, shadowed gaze remained fixed on her stubborn, steadfast figure. His long, lean, sinewy hand resting against the throne seemed forever poised to join her in the next battle. tips: 1. The heroine is not a strong woman, and the male lead is an original character. 2. You do not need to have read the original novel to enjoy this. 3. The story takes place from the late Regency era to the eve of the Victorian era. 4. Jane Eyre was still in her mother’s womb when Rochester married Bertha, so there is no question of breaking up the original pairing. You can think of Rochester as a random passerby. Theme: Move forward bravely and refuse to be swept along by fate.