Tags: Rough man × fair, delicate rich girl × 1v1, both devoted × bickering couple × love grows over time × sweet romance × reunion after separation
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Xu Yanyan, a million-follower internet influencer, transmigrates into a period novel as a cannon-fodder character.
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The original host was a pampered young lady from a capitalist family—fair-skinned like jade, voluptuous and stunning. Yet, in that era, her full figure was considered out of place, earning her the label of a “plump beauty.”
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But in Xu Yanyan’s eyes, this is clearly the kind of top-tier, soft-and-alluring figure that people decades later would envy. She feels deeply wronged.
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Before she can even lament fate’s joke, the tides of the era sweep her into despair.
Her family is destroyed, she has no one to rely on. In this desperate situation, she recalls a briefly mentioned childhood engagement in the novel—
a rough worker named Kang Zhijie, who becomes the only lifeline she can grasp.
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Meanwhile, Kang Zhijie is happily planning to marry the diligent and proper widow Li Meihong. Unexpectedly, this desperate “former fiancée” clings to him like a vine, and with one move, completely ruins his marriage plans.
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Furious yet unable to shake her off, he’s stuck with this troublesome burden. By day, the two pretend to be cousins in public. By night, the irritated rough man finds all sorts of ways to make things difficult for her, often bullying her to tears, determined to drive away this pampered young lady.
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Xu Yanyan grits her teeth—for the sake of survival, she endures.
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Step by step, using both softness and strategy, she turns this “lifeline” into her own towering tree of support.
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But as time marches forward, will this era—one that makes her heart flutter and tempts her to let down her guard—ultimately bear sweet fruit?
