“It’s my fault for making you go to the countryside and suffer with me. Tomorrow, I’ll apply for a divorce. You shouldn’t have to endure this.”
The man’s voice was stiff. His handsome face was covered with fresh scratch marks, making his striking features even more eye-catching beneath the dim yellow light.
Lin Ranran looked up. The man before her was dressed in a crisp military uniform, standing as straight as a pine tree. Even though he was filled with anger, his natural bearing as a soldier could not be concealed.
With looks like his, even the legendary Pan An would pale in comparison.
Suddenly, a flood of memories that did not belong to her rushed into Lin Ranran’s mind.
She had actually transmigrated into a novel!
Not only that, she had entered the period novel Space in the Seventies as the vicious supporting female character—the breathtakingly beautiful yet venomous wife of the male lead, Ji Junxiao.
In the novel, the original owner was hopelessly infatuated with her cousin. In order to help him become a regiment commander, she secretly drugged and framed the male lead, hoping to ruin his military career with a scandal.
Unexpectedly, the male lead ended up marrying her instead.
The supporting character was furious and became determined to destroy him.
Relying on her beauty that rivaled Daji herself, along with her talent for acting cute and playing innocent, she quickly wrapped him around her finger.
She had worked as a clerk in a factory but quit immediately after marriage to become a military officer’s wife.
Whenever she had the slightest headache, fever, or stomachache during the day, she would call him at work and demand that he come home to see her.
He caught on to her tricks several times, but she would throw her arms around him, kiss him repeatedly, and pout sweetly.
“Honey, I just miss you so much. Don’t you miss me? How about… you spoil me a little?”
In the end, he never had the heart to scold her.
Not only that, she even tried to persuade him to resign from the military, but he firmly refused.
Because of that, she constantly made trouble, turning the Ji family upside down.
A month later, she became pregnant.
The Ji family, who had disliked her before, immediately began treating her like a treasure because of the baby.
The men of the Ji family had long suffered from weak fertility.
The male lead’s father had been the lucky exception, having four sons and one daughter. His brothers, however, all remained childless.
By the male lead’s generation, all four brothers underwent medical examinations and were diagnosed with the same result:
Infertile.
After becoming pregnant, the supporting character’s emotions became extremely unstable. At the slightest dissatisfaction, she would curse the Ji family without restraint.
For the sake of the baby in her womb, the Ji family silently endured her terrible temper.
When she was four months pregnant, her cousin instructed her to finish the plan.
He framed the male lead, his father, and his grandfather on charges of corruption.
Because there was insufficient evidence, they were merely sent to the countryside.
Her cousin then ordered her to quickly abort the baby, divorce her husband, and marry someone else.
With the Ji family suffering such a devastating double blow, they would surely be completely destroyed.
But who could have imagined that less than three years later, the three men of the Ji family would be reinstated to their former positions, and the Ji family would rise to become the wealthiest and most sought-after family in the country?
The male lead and the reborn heroine lived happily ever after and had three children together.
As for the vicious supporting character, after marrying her cousin, she was unloved by her husband and abused by her in-laws.
Eventually, the entire family was arrested.
Her husband’s family blamed everything on her, naming her the mastermind behind it all.
She was sentenced to twenty years in prison.
Unable to endure life behind bars, she ultimately took her own life.
What a tragic ending!
Lin Ranran instinctively touched the baby in her womb before glancing at her impossibly handsome husband.
She immediately rejected that fate.
Who in their right mind would throw away such a handsome husband and a future of wealth and honor?
“I refuse!”
She absolutely could not get divorced.
Otherwise, her ending would be unimaginably miserable.
Ji Junxiao looked at her suspiciously.
For the past few days, she had cried, thrown tantrums, and even threatened suicide—all for the sake of getting a divorce.
Now that he had finally agreed, what game was she playing?
“Lin Ranran, what else do you want?”
Ji Junxiao was genuinely furious.
He was afraid he might lose control and strangle her.
After all, she had drugged and framed him.
He should have reported her to the authorities.
But if he had done that, her life would have been ruined.
Believing that he had taken a young woman’s innocence, he ignored his family’s objections and married her out of responsibility.
During their first month of marriage, they had been inseparable.
Those sweet days had made him believe she had truly fallen in love with him.
Only later did he realize it had all been an act.
Her real goal had been to corrupt him and destroy his family.
“Honey, let’s not get divorced. I only acted that way because I wanted you to care more about me. I promise I won’t abort our baby.”
Lin Ranran desperately tried to explain, hoping to calm the man standing before her.
Ji Junxiao looked at her coldly.
Even now, she was still pretending.
There had never been a place for him in her heart.
It had long since been filled by her cousin, Pei Yu’an.
She had sacrificed so much just to help her cousin take his position.
How touching.
He had originally intended to spare her dignity.
But he had reached his limit.
“Lin Ranran, you married me, seduced me, disrupted my family, and made me completely defenseless against your cousin, Pei Yu’an. Then he could easily frame my father, my grandfather, and me. That was your plan all along, wasn’t it? How can you be so vicious?”
The more Ji Junxiao spoke, the more agitated he became.
His tightly clenched fists had turned white from the force.
The deeper his love had once been…
…the deeper his hatred was now.
At that moment, Lin Ranran clearly saw the killing intent in his eyes.
Her legs went weak, and she nearly collapsed.
After all…
That vicious scheme really had been the original owner’s idea.
Author, you really did me dirty!
Her face turned pale as she hurriedly explained,
“It’s not like that, honey. Please listen to me.”
Ji Junxiao let out a cold laugh.
“What is there left to explain? The Ji family has already fallen. Now you can abort the baby, divorce me, and marry the man you love. You can trample our family into the dirt, turn us into everyone’s laughingstock, and make sure we never recover. That was your final goal all along, wasn’t it? Lin Ranran, congratulations. You succeeded. Tomorrow, I’ll submit the divorce application. From this day forward, you and I will have nothing to do with each other.”
Ji Junxiao hated her.
He wanted nothing more than to strangle her.
But he was a soldier.
His discipline and sense of duty told him he could never do such a thing.
Suppressing the violent impulse inside him, his body trembled from the effort.
Seeing him like this, Lin Ranran’s heart ached.
What terrible sins had the original owner committed?
How could she bear to hurt such an incredible husband?
If it were her…
She would cherish him with all her heart.
She made up her mind.
Throwing caution to the wind, she wrapped her arms tightly around him and pleaded softly,
“Honey, I really know I was wrong. Please believe me this one last time…”
The man struggled to restrain himself.
“Let go.”
“I won’t. Honey, unless you promise not to divorce me. I truly know I was wrong. I’ll change.”
Change?
A person’s nature is hard to alter.
If she could really change…
Then pigs could climb trees.
“Let go!”
“No! I won’t! Even if I die, I won’t let go!”
Ji Junxiao’s entire body tensed.
What was she trying to do now?
“Honey, I was wrong. I lost my way before, so I helped my cousin. But now I regret everything. I swear I will never abort our child. I will face every hardship with the Ji family. Please… believe me one last time.”