Name: The Matriarch's Daily Life of Quietly Enjoying Wealth
Author: Picking Green for the Consort

Synopsis

[Tea-loving charmer of a matriarch + drama-queen couple + palace and household intrigue + raising children + everyday life]

Drugged by her fiancé, Zheng Ying rushes into the Buddhist shrine and snatches Prince Jin's prayer beads... After a night of wild abandon, she gets her wish and becomes the matriarch of his household.

Above her, a ruthless sister-in-law clings to control of the household. Below her, there's a white-moonlight side consort, a reborn woman, and a transmigrator who is a favored concubine or bedchamber maid. Every one of them wants to laugh at the timid matriarch.

But they gradually realize that she's taken control of the purse strings with one hand, holds the concubines' lives and deaths in the other, and has a growing belly.

Zheng Ying knows that to gain power, she must win Prince Jin's body and heart. Then she discovers that the man is only pretending to be a gentleman.

“Weren't you so bold that time?”

“Yingying adores Your Highness...” She's not the only one who can act.

He always thought this woman who had thrown herself at him loved him desperately and couldn't live without him.

Until he heard her laughing with someone else: “That day, the person I wanted to bet on wasn't this blockhead...”

In public, he clenches his fists in fury. In private, he puts everything he's ever learned to use and keeps her busy until midday.

When she's glistening with sweat, her eyes brimming with tears, and she can barely speak through her sobs,

he stops and threatens her: “Yingying, beg me... and soothe me.”

“Dear husband, when you become emperor, what title will you give me?”

“You love money, so I'll put you in charge of the imperial treasury.”

“And what about my rank in the imperial household?”

“The empress has too much to do running the Six Palaces. I'll send you straight to the frontier instead.”

“Sounds great! I'll slay the dragon myself, become the Empress Dowager, and keep handsome lovers!”

[A drama-queen couple who stand together against outsiders and bicker behind closed doors]

Other names

Shh! I Backed the Wrong Lazy Prince, and Now I'm Hooked嘘！押错咸鱼王爷后我真香了Alternate title on Fanqie

Stats

106Chapters

233Reads · 30 days

8.7kReads · all time

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