Chapter 1
“My lady! Something terrible has happened! The young master has brought a woman home!”
When my maid Xiaomei rushed in, I was still completely dumbfounded.
Anyone who slipped off to the restroom at work to read a novel, only to be transported straight into it, would be stunned!
Especially when the novel in question was so breathtakingly idiotic that it made you want to applaud.
The heroine, Hua Yan, was hopelessly in love. Her husband, Qi Sanyuan, brought home a scheming woman and forced Hua Yan to accept her as a concubine, doting on his mistress while neglecting his wife.
Later, Qi Sanyuan offended the emperor, who confiscated the entire Qi estate.
The Qi family fell into utter misery and survived only because the heroine took in laundry for other people.
She still loved him desperately and refused to divorce him no matter what anyone said, even breaking with her own family over it.
Qi Sanyuan felt no gratitude for her devotion. The schemer was the only woman in his heart.
In the end, that woman found herself a more powerful patron and dumped Qi Sanyuan.
Only then did the bastard come to his senses and notice the “pure, kind, beautiful” heroine who had never abandoned him.
But just as the two were about to reconcile…
Hua Yan got so happy that she keeled over and died on the spot.
Honestly, the author could have simply abandoned the story, yet still went to the trouble of slapping together an ending.
A little professional integrity, but not much.
I had been so outraged by what I was reading that I smacked the office toilet.
The toilet collapsed…
And I transmigrated…
I could already picture the day’s trending headline:
Public Company CEO Falls to Her Death While Slacking Off at Work to Read an Idiotic Novel!
The mind that had spent years making ruthless decisions in the business world began spinning at full speed.
Today was the day Qi Sanyuan brought the schemer home. According to the plot, the imperial decree confiscating the Qi estate would arrive in three days.
There was still time!
At that thought, I shot to my feet.
“Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today! Come on, we’re moving!”
Xiaomei jumped nearly three feet in fright.
“My lady… perhaps there is no need to go quite that far…”
Judging by the pity in her eyes, she clearly thought the shock had driven me insane.
Just then, a commotion arose outside. Faintly, I heard a woman say,
“Third Brother, I’m sure Sister must hate me.
“If Sister refuses to accept me, I’d rather be a mere maid and serve you for the rest of my life.
“As long as I can be by your side every day, Lan’er will ask for nothing more.”
Serve him, my foot!
After the Qi estate was confiscated, she would not even go out to buy groceries!
She claimed a respectable young lady should never show her face in public.
Never mind that she herself had been trained as a Yangzhou courtesan.
Yet Qi Sanyuan thought she knew propriety and when to advance or retreat.
Compared with Hua Yan, who had to show her face in public to earn money, Lan’er was apparently infinitely superior.