Chapter 1: 第1章 穿越，冤种炮灰？

"Mm..."

Inside a room adorned with large red "Double Happiness" symbols, where everything in sight was bathed in festive hues, a woman lay on the bed with her brows slightly furrowed. A faint groan escaped her lips as a somewhat thin hand pressed against her temple.

"Eh?"

In her daze, sensing that something was amiss, the woman froze visibly. "This is? Ugh..."

As she abruptly pushed herself up, the dragon and phoenix candles still burning in the room instantly caught her eye. Her pupils contracted, and her eyes, which had been somewhat listless, suddenly widened. Before she could grasp the current situation, a massive influx of memories that did not belong to her surged into her mind, nearly bursting her skull.

Shen Xiangwan? Shen Xiangyue? The Prime Minister's Estate?

Wei Chengyi? The Prince of Weiyang's Manor?

The Tianqi Dynasty?

After an unknown amount of time, the throbbing pain in her head gradually subsided. Shen Xiangwan briefly organized the extra memories in her mind, keenly grasping several keywords. Her face—not particularly fair, even somewhat thin, but possessing deep and striking features—was instantly filled with bewilderment.

Had she transmigrated?

And into a historical rebirth novel, becoming the "cannon fodder" real daughter who was framed by the reborn fake daughter, forced into a substitute marriage to a sickly prince of a different surname who was about to be exiled, and ultimately died a tragic death on the road to exile?

In the original story, the fake daughter, Shen Xiangyue, was a regressor. In her previous life, after the real daughter—the original host—returned to the Prime Minister's estate, Shen Xiangyue feared she would be sent to the countryside and abandoned. Desperate, she rushed to marry the Prince of a different surname, Wei Chengyi. Unexpectedly, on the very second day after the wedding, the Prince of Weiyang's Manor was raided and the family was exiled for treason, forcing her to follow.

Furthermore, she had only just married into the manor when the seizure and exile occurred. Her husband, Wei Chengyi, was also killed by the Emperor's schemes during the exile. Many in the Wei family viewed her as a jinx and a bringer of calamity. Her life was miserable; she endured years of hardship before finally passing away.

In contrast, the real daughter, despite being raised in the countryside and being disliked by the Prime Minister's estate, relied on her optimistic and resilient character, along with her status as the legitimate daughter of the estate, to marry the Third Prince and eventually become the Empress, mother of the nation.

Shen Xiangyue was unwilling to accept this. In her eyes, the original host was merely a wild girl raised in the country—how could she live such a good life? Meanwhile, Shen Xiangyue, who had been pampered by the Prime Minister's estate, was to be exiled, tormented, and ultimately die a miserable death in a dilapidated mud hut.

Carrying this intense resentment and jealousy, Shen Xiangyue was reborn, returning to the time before she married into the Prince's manor. She did not want to be exiled or live such a wretched life again. Thus, she used手段 to drug the original host—who had only recently returned to the estate and was still somewhat timid—and orchestrated a scheme to send her into the bridal sedan chair.

To completely trample the original host into the mud and to demonstrate her own innocence and grievance, making everyone in the Prime Minister's estate loathe the original host, Shen Xiangyue waited until she calculated the host had already been sent to the bridal chamber. Then, she went crying to the Prime Minister and his wife, pinning everything on the original host, claiming that the host had drugged her and usurped her place to marry into the Prince's manor.

How could a young girl who had just returned to the estate and hadn't even found her footing possibly have the audacity to scheme a substitute marriage? And how could she have done it so stealthily?

Despite such a full-of-holes explanation, not a single person in the entire household suspected a thing; they all believed it. One could only say that no one in the Prime Minister's estate truly regarded the original host as family.

As for the original host, she woke up to find herself in a bridal chamber, and before she could even figure out what was happening, the imperial decree for the seizure of property arrived. To make matters worse, the most fatal blow came when the exile procession had just left the city; the Prime Minister's estate sent a letter of severance, completely cutting ties with her. This left the original host in a daze throughout the journey. Coupled with the resentment from certain members of the Wei family, her husband Wei Chengyi—already poisoned—was crippled of his martial arts and limbs by the Emperor's design, leaving him unable to protect her. Before long, she died on the road to exile, becoming a literal piece of cannon fodder!

"Cannon fodder, huh?"

A wicked curve traced her lips. Under the flickering candlelight, Shen Xiangwan's deep and striking features looked quite eerie. As a twenty-eighth-century genius medical doctor and a spatial ability user, she never dreamed that after dying together with a foreign spy, she would transmigrate into a book to become the cannon fodder real daughter with the same name.

However, now that she was here, those who had wronged her better wash their necks and wait. She was not someone who would allow herself to be bullied!