Transmigrating to the ’70s: Pregnant with the Overpowering Male Lead’s Child

Ye Taoyao, a Peony Spirit who had finally cultivated a human form, wakes up to find herself trapped in a “period novel” as a cannon-fodder character, the hero’s tragic first wife.

In the original story, the “original Ye Taoyao” was crippled by an inferiority complex due to her lack of education. She felt unworthy of her childhood sweetheart, Gu Jincheng—the legendary, “Dragon King” style military hero. After her mother died and she met the novel’s “reborn” female lead (a sophisticated woman from the military), her self-doubt devoured her. Convinced she was holding back the hero’s bright future, she discovered she was pregnant, left a divorce agreement behind, and vanished.

She ended up fleeing to a remote village, marrying a hunched-back, abusive widower, and raising her genius son to be as timid and broken as she was. Meanwhile, the “reborn” female lead stepped in to nurse the hero back to health. Eventually, they married and lived happily ever after, while the original wife remained nothing but a mocking memory—a “ugly, uneducated country girl” who got out of the way.

The “New” Ye Taoyao:

The Peony Spirit wakes up already three months pregnant and on the verge of being forced into marriage with that same abusive widower.

Faced with a future of domestic violence and a miserable death, Ye Taoyao decides to flip the script. Under the cover of night, she makes a frantic phone call to the hero:

“Husband, I’m pregnant. If you don’t come back right now, you’re losing both of us.”

Gu Jincheng, just back from the frontier, rushes to the mountains overnight to rescue his wife.

Three months later, just as he thinks things have settled, he receives a divorce paper from her:

“Come back so we can sign the papers. I wish you a successful career without me.”

Gu Jincheng: “…? Divorce? What exactly did I do wrong?!”

The Antagonist’s Perspective:

Zhou Yaoyao, the reborn “heroine,” always looked down on the country-born male lead in her past life, only to be scammed by a “Phoenix Man” and live in misery. This time, she is determined to seize happiness. She used a few petty schemes to drive the “unrefined” original wife away, then sat back to wait for the hero to get injured so she could swoop in.

But… why did the original wife come back? Why isn’t the divorce happening? And why is the hero suddenly pampering that “country woman” like she’s the center of the universe?

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Theme: A beautiful, “high-maintenance” spirit runs away with her “hidden” pregnancy and ends up winning at life.