After Jiang Suiwan, a corporate drone worked to death in the modern rat race, dies from overwork, she opens her eyes to find herself a low-profile concubine in Prince Yong's residence at the end of the Kangxi era. Faced with the endless competition among the prince's secondary consorts and concubines, she decisively chooses to lie flat. She opens a delivery kitchen to earn a markup, dismantles Western clocks to make jewelry, and invents fever patches to build up her private savings. She only plans to save enough money to escape, but the cold-faced Fourth Prince Yinzhen catches her and makes her his household accountant. From then on, she takes charge of everything in the prince's household, from daily necessities to the accounts, and uses modern comforts to build a peaceful life with the Fourth Prince. When a modern slacker's mindset collides with an ancient emperor's statecraft, will this lighthearted story of marriage before love turn on the Fourth Prince's flawless schemes, or Jiang Suiwan's philosophy of winning by lying flat?
This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.
