“Wen Yining, you wicked woman! Is this how you teach your child? If anything happens to Yuxuan, you and your daughter get out of my Cheng family’s door!”
“Yifeng, calm down. She’s just a child—it might not have been intentional.”
“I think it’s that bitch teaching her!”
“Mom! Mom—”
…
Amid the shouting, Wen Yining opened her eyes, vision slightly blurred. Her forehead throbbed, something warm trickling down. She wiped it—and saw her hand covered in bright red blood.
Wen Yining stared at her palm. “???”
What’s happening? She remembered undergoing multiple surgeries. After returning to the office to rest, she had lost consciousness… So how did she end up here?
Wen Yining glanced around. An old ceiling fan creaked above, a chipped enamel cup lay by her feet, and a little girl knelt in front of her, eyes red, glaring.
“Wen Yining, get your daughter and apologize to Yuxuan immediately!” another angry voice barked.
Wen Yining frowned, about to respond, when a flood of unfamiliar memories hit her.
Oh… she’d transmigrated.
She had entered a novel called “The Reborn Heiress Pampered by All”, into the body of a timid young wife who shared her name. The original mother was mentally unstable, her health collapsed after giving birth. The Wen family favored sons over daughters; Wen Yining was despised from childhood. If it weren’t for her mother Tang Yuqiong fiercely protecting her, she would have been sold off as a child bride long ago.
When the original character turned 17, her mother arranged a marriage to a soldier stationed in a remote village, hoping to find her daughter a good life.
The Cheng family had only one son, Cheng Yifeng, who was serving at the southern border. Due to strict military discipline, he had no contact with women. His parents arranged the match, paying a bride price of 68, and brought the original girl over.
Tang Yuqiong gave her daughter her bracelet, telling her never to return to the Wen family. A few days later, she heard a body had been fished out of the river…
Cheng Yifeng had submitted the marriage report, preparing to hold the wedding—then his first love returned.
Gu Yuxuan, the plot’s “capitalist heiress,” had been swapped at birth. Raised in a village, she was retrieved at 15 but didn’t enjoy the heiress life long before political turmoil struck her family, and she died in the countryside. She transmigrated two months before the incident and immediately ran away.
The original Wen Yining knew Cheng Yifeng liked her, but when she discovered her true identity as a wealthy heiress, she looked down on him as a rough soldier. Later, while being sent to the countryside, she heard Cheng Yifeng had become a regiment leader.
By the time she returned, Cheng Yifeng had submitted the marriage report. She flung herself into his arms in tears, manipulating him. The wedding was canceled; under Gu Yuxuan’s scheming, she was drugged and forced to sleep with a stranger. Pregnant, believing the child was Cheng Yifeng’s, she devoted herself to raising her daughter Yao Yao and serving her in-laws, while he went off to the military with his first love.
Her in-laws despised her for giving birth to a daughter and pressured her to have a son. Gu Yuxuan feared he’d be forced to sleep with Wen Yining, so Cheng Yifeng voluntarily got sterilized. Even if forced, the original couldn’t conceive.
This time, Cheng Yifeng returned to the small town on leave, Gu Yuxuan accompanying him under the pretense of visiting, but really to keep him away from Wen Yining.
On the last day, she tried to take him back to the southern border. Passing by Yao Yao, who was hanging laundry, Gu Yuxuan “fell” and claimed Yao Yao had pushed her. Cheng Yifeng kicked Yao Yao without question. When Wen Yining ran to protect her daughter, she saw her husband shielding a stranger.
Accustomed to being submissive, the original never stood up for herself. When Yifeng shoved her, her forehead hit a table corner—and that’s when Wen Yining snapped.
After taking stock of the scene, she checked her chest and whether the original had developed nodules from past suffering.
“Wen Yining, get up and apologize!” Cheng Yifeng had panicked earlier when she fell and bled, thinking he might have killed her. Seeing her okay, he relaxed—but quickly returned to his usual stance.
“Your daughter’s little, but mischievous… see, she made me fall!” Gu Yuxuan wailed, pretending to be fragile.
Wen Yining glanced at her. Really, such a terrible wound… almost healed without medical attention.
“Yao Yao, did you push her?” Wen Yining ignored the dramatics, asking her daughter instead.
“No, no! She fell by herself,” Yao Yao shook her head.
“What do you mean…” Gu Yuxuan’s face twisted in anger.
Smack—before she could finish, Wen Yining slapped her hard, making her head ring.
“You… you—” Gu Yuxuan was stunned. This timid woman just hit her!
Recovering, she tried to play the innocent again, hiding behind Cheng Yifeng.
“Wen Yining, how dare you?” Cheng Yifeng rushed to shield Gu Yuxuan. “No wonder Yao Yao lies so much, it’s all because of you.”
“Then your adultery and mistress… is that also taught by your mother?” Wen Yining shot back at Gu Yuxuan.
The reborn heroine knew the plot but wasn’t relying solely on a man—she was ready to fight!
“You’re right, as a mother, I do need to teach my child…” Wen Yining picked up a kitchen knife from the cutting board and charged at the two of them, no longer tolerating weakness.
Experienced with knives, she swung directly at Cheng Yifeng’s chest. Blood sprayed, shocking him—but before Gu Yuxuan’s screams pushed him forward, he instinctively dodged to protect her.
The blade grazed his arm, blood gushing…
Note: This is an alternate universe, set in a sweet, romantic-comedy style story.