[Transmigrate into a book + hilarious + mother can read minds + pampered family favorite + inner-court intrigue]
Yan Jin transmigrates into a book as a cannon-fodder baby who is killed right after birth.
The good news: Thanks to her tenacious spirit, she survives.
The bad news: Her mother is a resentful supporting character who's spent half her life working herself to the bone for the marquis's household. She gives them all her money and even raises the concubine's child!
After living most of her life, she ends up with nothing and is exploited to death.
When Yan Jin learns her identity, she can only sigh inwardly. She looks at her mother with sympathy and can't help muttering to herself.
"Mother, that scumbag is faking his death and spending your money!"
"Mother, that child belongs to the concubine. He's an ungrateful wretch!"
"Mother, your mother-in-law is actually a poisonous black-hearted woman. She keeps poisoning you."
As Yan Jin goes on, she realizes her mother has changed.
Not only has she become stingy to the last copper, she also ruins the scumbag's reputation.
The ungrateful child gets sent packing, and the wicked mother-in-law meets her just desserts and is poisoned to death.
Yan Jin: ???
Why is the plot different now?
Wait, who is that handsome man standing beside Mother?