If You Don't Work Hard and Do Nothing, How Can You Get Yourself a Wife?

In the Han Kingdom, despite the nationwide push to build a moderately prosperous society, 5.51 million people still live in poverty, and there are more than 800 impoverished mountain villages.

To help villages overcome poverty, Wang Ning, a recent university graduate, is chosen to go to the countryside as a village chief. Along with the daughter of a business owner whose company is taking part in a poverty-alleviation project, and carrying a 50,000-yuan poverty relief fund, he arrives at Fish and Rice Village, a small mountain village nestled by the water, with more than a hundred households.

At first, Wang Ning is brimming with confidence and enthusiasm, eager to lead the villagers to prosperity and out of poverty.

But he discovers that many of them are idle, and there are even more bachelors. They spend their days doing nothing, living off the government’s minimum-income assistance. They even boast that the country won’t let them starve and will keep supporting them. “Hey, if we’ve got food and a roof over our heads, why bother working?”

Some even shamelessly ask Wang Ning when the government is going to send them each a wife.

That makes Wang Ning furious!

“Poverty relief starts with changing your mindset. If you’re this lazy and greedy, how do you expect to find a wife?!”

[The blurb doesn’t do it justice. Read the story to find out.]

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.