The Matriarch’s Life on Her Own Terms

[Transmigration + rebirth + mind reading + leisurely daily life + household intrigue + fictional setting + no romance] After a dream that lets her live an entire lifetime at the age of thirteen, Ye Liyuan awakens and begins preparing for everything to come. Returning to the capital from Jiangnan, she goes along with her half-sister’s scheme and marries Jiang Xingyu of the Duke of Zhenguo’s household. He is a dissolute and notorious heir who has vowed to spend his life with the transmigrator Xu. On their wedding night, sticking to her own plan, Ye Liyuan needs the heir only once. With the help of fertility medicine and an ovulation-inducing incense, she successfully conceives. After that, everything unfolds exactly as she planned, without the slightest deviation. While the heir is still wrapped up with the transmigrator, playing at “you run, I chase; you’ll never escape,” she has already won over the duke, the old madam, and the lady of the house, and steadily secured her position as mistress of the household. Because each of them wants something different, whether it is the transmigrator’s antics at first or her sudden change of heart, things proceed as they do, right up until the transmigrator returns to the modern world with help from the formidable daughter Ye Liyuan gave birth to. After the transmigrator disappears, the heir briefly sinks into despondency, then becomes even more debauched. One woman after another, each resembling the transmigrator in some way, is brought into the duke’s household, setting off wave after wave of domestic intrigue. As the mistress of the household, Ye Liyuan remains utterly carefree each day. After giving birth to a remarkable daughter who lets her hear people’s inner thoughts, she has two sons in the same birth, officially called her older brothers but, in practice, disciplined into being her little brothers. Even the concubines in the inner quarters who try to stir up trouble end up being spoiled rotten by her formidable daughter, who is determined to pamper her mother to the skies. Truly, truly, in the end her daughter becomes the ruler of the country, and Ye Liyuan herself is pampered to the skies. As for that heir who claims to be devoted and faithful, but is actually absurd and laughable? The blurb barely does it justice. The story is the real treat!