Because she got so angry at how weak and pathetic the delicate female lead was in the novel she stayed up all night reading, Xia Zhiyuan fainted right there in her bathroom from rage!

System: "Host, please choose the character you want to romance..."

What? She could choose the character herself? Then she definitely wasn’t going to pick that two-timing scumbag!

So, Xia Zhiyuan boldly chose the most alluring villain in the novel — Princess Changyi, the Eldest Princess!

And so began her daily life of getting close to the villain. Xia Zhiyuan kept dragging her sickly, frail body in front of the princess, constantly playing the pity card and throwing herself into her arms.

But the villainous Eldest Princess remained completely unmoved… until, just when Xia Zhiyuan thought her strategy had failed and was about to leave—

Her wrists were suddenly seized tightly by Princess Changyi.

“You dared to provoke me… and now you want to leave?”

“Too late!”

As soon as Shen Qing opened her eyes, she panicked:

Can someone please tell her what to do now that she’s become the vicious mother-in-law she always cursed?

A mud hut with a thatched roof, patched-up clothes layered with more patches, every meal consisting of corn porridge with not a trace of meat or oil in sight.

On top of that, there were floods and an impending famine. No money, no food—how were they supposed to escape?

Immediate Priority: Stay alive!

Long-term Plan: Live well!

She had to put every family member to work and start making money as fast as possible!

Earn silver, buy pork, render lard, purchase cows, donkeys, fabric, oilcloth… Stock up, stock up, stock up!

Empress Xiao Lingshuang stumbles upon a bustling county town and stumbles upon a shocking secret. Not only is the county magistrate fake, but even the county town itself is fake. Gu Fei: "What's fake or not?... Our things are real." People: "There are so many festivals, Women's Day, Goddess Day, Men's God Day... and even holiday gifts... Does this even exist in a real county town?"

Lin Yuxin transmigrated into a book and became the real daughter of the Shangshu family, who had been swapped at birth.

In the original plot, she was framed by the fake daughter, trusted the wrong people, and ultimately led her entire family to ruin.

Now that Lin Yuxin had arrived, she was determined to change her family’s tragic fate and lay the foundation for a better life.

So, she first went to find her mother to reveal the truth:

“Mother, the fake daughter you’ve raised for years is actually Father’s illegitimate child!”

As a result, her mother immediately divorced her scumbag husband, leaving him penniless!

Then, she went to warn her eldest brother: “Oh, my poor brother! You were set up by that scumbag father and the woman you loved. In order to save her, you ended up losing both your legs and lived a lonely, miserable life!”

Upon hearing this, her brother immediately entered the palace to request an imperial decree to lead a crusade against the bandits…