A 24-year-old laid-off worker with no ambition to do anything but slack off transmigrates in the time it takes to nap. Less than fifteen minutes later, the original owner dies. The Heavenly Dao rejects her like a returned package and sends her back to when the original owner was nine. Wait, did I transmigrate or am I reborn?!!!
Fortunately, Fu is levelheaded. Well, as the daughter of a great noble family, I can slack off in peace. But her birth mother is dead, and her stepmother doesn’t seem like a good person. After all, the stepmother played a major role in the original owner’s tragic death in her previous life. How can she protect herself? Relying on her memories, she thinks of her grandmother, who is living out her retirement far away in Yunzhou. A life of slacking off and retirement together: the future looks bright.
Then she finds herself in some mountain village so poor it has nothing but houses. Wasn’t this supposed to be a retirement plan? Her grandmother can barely walk, and neither can the old maidservant.
Still, hard work brings wealth, and Fu is convinced she can work her way into a life of doing nothing. By winning goodwill for the Fu family of Lingzhou, she single-handedly turns them into one of the four richest families.
The newly wealthy family joyfully brings their daughter home, presenting a painfully sweet picture of a loving father and filial daughter.
And then she meets Lingzhou’s most notorious wastrel, Duke Jiang’s young heir, who is basically a professional slacker. The man has the means to do as he pleases. How unfair! The two even marry. Looking at her idle husband and the treacherous currents in court, she finally decides to whip him into shape. Soon, every corner of Lingzhou echoes with Jiang Yunxiao’s cries: “My lady, no, no! My lady, I was wrong!” The washboard is a wonderful thing.
As Fu grows busier and more hardworking, her inner monologue is: I’m so done. I just want to slack off.
It's so exciting, the more I read, the more I get into it.