Gu Mingzhu transmigrated into a Mary Sue novel.
She wasn't the heroine, nor the supporting female lead—in fact, she didn’t even have a name in the entire story. And Gu Mingzhu was perfectly fine with that. If she just kept her head down and behaved, maybe she could live out her life quietly and die of old age.
But then, at a matchmaking banquet, she ran into one of the novel’s villainous male side characters—Prince An, Han Min.
Han Min was the classic "tragically beautiful" villain.
Though a prince by birth, he was never favored. His mother had been a dancer who died young, and his stepmother was a madwoman who delighted in tormenting the weak. He only began to live slightly better after aligning himself with the Crown Prince.
But that didn’t last. While saving the Crown Prince and his consort, Han Min nearly crippled both his legs, becoming a man discarded by society.
In his life, Han Min never truly gained anything—only lost more and more.
Growing darker and more bitter, he thought: If I can’t live well, then no one else should either.
But just then, he realized—he wasn't completely empty-handed. At the very least, he still had his face. And just with that… he’d attracted a dazzling little gem named Gu Mingzhu!