Content warning: No court politics. The author can't write court politics.
In her previous life, she was forced to fight monsters in the apocalypse. This time around, she just wants to lie back and take it easy.
Lin He had just been torn apart and eaten by zombies when she opened her eyes and found herself a young bride bought by Li Changhui of Xiang'an Village.
Li Changhui had enlisted at fifteen and returned home only three times in ten years. On his first two visits, he brought home a son each time. On the third, he brought home another son, along with a young bride who clearly hadn't given birth before.
The centipede-shaped scar on Li Changhui's face was the size of a palm. Young women who saw it trembled in fear, but Lin He didn't mind.
Since she's here, she might as well make the best of it. Being a stepmother is better than risking her life every day, right? Besides, aren't zombies a hundred times more terrifying than Li Changhui?
What's more, he said all she had to do was cook, and he wouldn't treat her badly. She wouldn't have to do anything else. Most importantly, Li Changhui wouldn't sleep with her. How great was that?
And so Lin He settled comfortably into her role as stepmother to three boys who weren't hers.
Then one day, she happened to hear Li Changhui naming the three boys, and the names sounded oddly familiar.
After thinking it over, she sat bolt upright on her deathbed in shock. Were those names really the ones belonging to three villains?
And not just villains, but barely mentioned cannon-fodder villains!
