Jiang Weiyue transmigrates into a period novel about a male lead fighting monsters and leveling up, and thinks, No big deal. I'm not worried.
But then she learns that in this story about the male lead, she's the vicious, dark-moonlight character who serves as the stepping-stone that pushes him to grow.
She gives up completely.
Thinking about how the male lead will take revenge on her in the future, leaving her mentally unstable and facing a miserable death,
she swears she'll change her fate and make money.
Before the male lead finishes leveling up and becomes the richest man in the country, she'll make plans of her own.
But before she can get ready, the male lead, Song Chuanhe, comes back.
And he wants her to be his secret lover, available whenever he wants and at his beck and call.
In other words, his mistress.
With no choice, she agrees, hoping the original female lead will show up soon and distract Song Chuanhe.
But even after the original female lead returns, Song Chuanhe, that devil, still refuses to let her go.
He torments her until she's in unbearable pain, expertly manipulating her emotions, controlling her by alternating slaps with sweet rewards.
In the end, she can't take it anymore and tries to leave.
Song Chuanhe presses his thin lips to her ear and says each word with utter seriousness: "Want to leave me? Only if I'm dead."