Qin Huiyin found herself transmigrated into a novel. Her mother was a beautiful widow who had married three times, famed as the village's most enchanting woman. After her mother’s second marriage, Qin Huiyin gained a villainous stepbrother. With the third marriage, the male lead became her stepbrother, along with a pair of step-siblings destined to die young, mere cannon fodder in the story. Her mother, a side character fated for tragedy, danced on the edge of danger every day before both the villain and the male lead, unaware that they had already devised hundreds of ways to bring about her end. In order to survive, Qin Huiyin made a decision: she would cling to the male lead’s thigh, but also to the villain’s. With both strategies at work, perhaps she could truly secure the protection of someone powerful. However, raising both the grassroots male lead and the villain proved no easy task—it was enough to drain her completely. As time went on, Qin Huiyin looked at the villain and the male lead, now fair and plump thanks to her care, as well as the once-doomed step-sister and step-brother who had flourished under her watch. With her mission accomplished, she was ready to withdraw quietly, her merit hidden from the world. As the richest woman in the land, she wanted nothing more than to find a handsome ancient gentleman to be her live-in husband and finally reach the pinnacle of life. But unexpectedly, every matchmaker in the capital shut their doors to her. Infuriated, she swore to use her wealth to break through all obstacles. But one night, as she lay in her room, someone slipped in quietly, loosened his clothes, and whispered, “Isn’t it enough if I come to you alone?”
"Woo…woo… how could I have been so blind? So many decent men with good prospects, yet I had to pick you, you wretched scoundrel! You talked a good game back then, boasting of your two taels of silver in monthly wages and promising that if I married you, my daughter and I would never go hungry. But look at us now! It’s only been a few days, and you got into a fight and crippled your leg…
To heal your leg, we spent every last bit of our savings and are now drowning in debt. Chen needs money for his studies every year. Xiao is a sickly child, always needing medicine—a bottomless pit! I've prided myself on my wits all my life, yet I’ve ended up trapped by the likes of you. I can’t go on… woo…"
Qin Huiyin sat beneath the eaves, mending a patched and tattered garment. From inside came the sound of a woman’s weeping and cursing—every word a complaint, but the tone was soft and coy, more like she was seeking attention from her husband. The honest, simple man inside tried to placate her, begging her forgiveness, his attitude humble.
Two months ago, the mother of this body, Peach Blossom Li, married the widower Daifu Tang from the village.
The original owner of the body had knocked her head while moving things. When she next woke, her soul had changed, and she had become Qin Huiyin, a web influencer from the twenty-first century.
This world was one she knew from a book she had read. In it, Qin Huiyin was a minor character, the stepsister of the grassroots male lead, Yichen Tang.
Creak! The door opened. Peach Blossom Li, dressed in