COO 68 Rate 2/5

Summary: There is a common trope in old-fashioned romance novels—where the female lead must have a rough life, be beautiful in appearance, suffer from being forcibly taken by a wealthy man, and run away after being pregnant…

One morning, Jiang Rao wakes up to find herself unfortunately transmigrated into the novel “The CEO’s Beloved”, which was once extremely popular. She became the substitute bride who was abused both physically and emotionally by the male lead, and had desperately wanted to escape his clutches. However, the original female lead was delicate and weak, and the greater her heart was, the less action she took!

Before the transmigration, the original female lead said, “Even if you can have my body, you can never have my heart!” After transmigrating, Jiang Rao smiled indifferently like a Buddha, “With money to spend and a villa to live in, I don’t need to worry about anything or wander around aimlessly. I don’t plan to run away anymore. It’s too tiring and terrifying to follow the original plot. I’ll just wait to die and be reincarnated early.”

She thought that by deviating from the original plot, the real fiancée would return to take her place perfectly after the one-year contract ends. One night, she heard a low murmur in her ear, “My sweetheart…” Jiang Rao, “???”

Review: At first the story seems okay. Typical CEO style, substitute. Then it just felt forced and no further interaction between ML and MC. Both of them are focusing on 1 thing. ML forcing MC to stay with him, MC want to run away. Then the absurd thing is the ending where MC suddenly said okay she loves him. MC thought she transmigrated to a novel where she is the heroine. The novel is about abused love story. MC is a stand in for ML wife. ML real wife is an artist and got depression. She was sent abroad by her mother. Then the mother find MC as ML wife stand in. ML never care about his wife. He was forced to marry by his grandpa before he died. His parent also already died. He only has his grandma. MC thought she'll just stay until the real wife comes back. MC and ML keep dreaming their previous life aka the novel story where ML forced, locked MC until she can't get pregnant. ML tried to avoid his bad behavior in the dream. He become much patience with MC. Then MC switched back with the real wife. ML found out and divorced her. ML found MC several months later and forced her to stay with him. MC refuse. She join a film crew to avoid ML. ML followed and pester her. MC then said she want to try with ML but ML knocked her out. He asked priest to wipe her memory. MC lost all her memories and stayed with ML. She celebrate ML birthday then run away with her brother. She found out that she is just a substitute. ML suicide by slashing his wrist before he let MC run out. He survived, MC still on the run. ML make his grandma notice his suicidal. ML grandma talks to MC. MC remembered everything and fact that she is not transmigrated but it's her own past life memories. MC asked 4 years before she can go back to ML. MC went abroad. ML tried to find her but his grandma forced him to stay in the country. 4 years later MC comes back and reunite with ML. The end.