Shen Ruqing is a gifted painter who transmigrates into the body of a wicked woman: a lazy glutton who abuses her son, beats her younger siblings, and lusts after other men.
Her sickly, handsome husband wants a divorce. Just wait a little!
I’m rolling up my sleeves and getting to work!
I’ll earn money to support the family, be a good wife, and raise the children. Just you wait!
Though she’s notorious, she does good deeds and builds up virtue. Though she’s useless, she works hard to improve. Her husband is frail, so she helps him prepare for the imperial exams.
Farming, cooking, business, criminal investigations, medicine: she’s good at all of them.
The land falls into chaos, and rebel kings seize power.
Shen Ruqing cries, “Fight all you want. What does any of this have to do with us country folk? What did you say? My son is the bloodline of the deposed crown prince? My sister-in-law is the late empress’s legitimate daughter? Fu Sanlang, what have you been up to behind my back?”
From the countryside to the capital, they fight corrupt officials and overthrow a tyrant. Have they taken things a little too far?
“Sanlang, how about I win an empire for you?”
“What would I do with that?”
“Then what do you want?”
“Out of three thousand beauties, I want only you. And it’d be nice if you gave me eight or ten sons.”
“Then you might as well become emperor!”
At last, all the chaos is resolved. She turns back and smiles, and you are still the same as ever.
