Shocking! My Rugged Husband is the Hidden Tycoon in the 70s Novel Novel

Xu Qinghuan never expected to wake up inside her best friend's time-travel novel as the tragic second female lead—the spurned fiancée with a dead father, remarried mother, and a countryside exile waiting in her future. But why play the victim when she could rewrite her own story?

Breaking free from her cheating cousin and a manipulative mother, Xu Qinghuan embraces her rural assignment with unexpected enthusiasm. Life in the Great Northeast's fertile black lands offers honest work, cozy heated kangs, and an escape from corporate rat races. For the first time, she has nothing to lose and everything to gain.

Then she notices him: Jiang Xingye, the rugged, brooding man everyone whispers about. Even the novel's precious male lead respects his quiet power. This hidden tycoon is destined to become the world's richest man—and Xu Qinghuan decides he's worth knowing.

Her plan is simple: become his trusted companion, nothing more. But when he looks at her with those intense eyes and speaks in that gruff, coaxing voice, telling her to wait just a little longer, her careful boundaries begin to crumble. His wealth means nothing compared to the way he actually sees her. His workaholic ambition only makes her wonder what it would take to make him stay.

In a twist no book could predict, the sacrificial second female lead discovers she's the only story that matters.