Su Lan, a modern-day slacker and overworked office drone, wakes up to find she has become Ula Nara, the principal wife of the Fourth Prince Yinzhen during the Kangxi era. Faced with the famously workaholic, stone-faced Fourth Lord, Su Lan's mind is going wild: "Help! The ultimate workplace grind is my husband?"
To stay alive in the deadly struggle among the nine princes for the throne, she decides:
In public: act dignified and virtuous, and keep the household running smoothly (in reality, she uses KPIs to manage the servants and tricks the kitchen into making spicy hot pot by claiming it's mentioned in ancient texts).
In private: lie flat and enjoy the gossip, munching on pastries while complaining about the Fourth Lord's icy expression (until the day he catches her in the act...).
Yinzhen thinks his wife has been acting strangely lately. She keeps muttering about being an "office drone" and "lying flat," and even tries to teach Honghui "Radio Calisthenics, Set Eight." But when she coaxes him into staying up late to review memorials with a bowl of chilled double-skin milk, he suddenly finds himself thinking: Maybe life isn't so hard after all?
