The 1980s: My Rise Begins with a Substitute Marriage

Xu Ni, a modern-day corporate drone from the twenty-first century, transmigrates into a book, landing in the body of a cannon-fodder character from a melodramatic period novel. She's now a pitiful village girl forced to marry in place of someone else, to a comatose villain.

After learning the original plot, she keeps her head down and plays it safe so she can stay alive. Usually, she just listens to gossip. She would never dare run away with someone or swindle her in-laws out of all their money.

All she asks is that, once her villainous husband wakes up, he'll see that she never did anything to wrong him and agree to a peaceful divorce, so she can live her own quiet life.

But when her comatose husband really does wake up, he won't let her go.

His stand-in bride is just too entertaining. Rather than let her go and wreak havoc on someone else, he might as well keep her for himself.