[Debut work, written without much experience]
[Historical romance + household intrigue + mutual devotion + doting husband + happy ending + strong heroine + crushing scumbags]
The Yang family has served the country with unwavering loyalty for generations. Yang Yaoyao, the orphaned daughter of a military family, marries into the Earl’s household. She serves her mother-in-law, manages the household, and supports the whole family.
Her husband is abducted by bandits while traveling to take up his post. She waits for him for three years, only for him to return with a woman who transmigrated into this world, installing her as his secondary wife.
The transmigrated woman opens a teahouse and attracts male customers with pole dancing, but her husband says, “Shu Li can make money for the Earl’s household. Our future success depends entirely on her.”
The transmigrated woman storms into her shop and argues with scholars about freedom of speech, but her husband says, “Shu Li’s ideas are ahead of her time. With her around, my official career is sure to soar.”
The transmigrated woman couldn’t hurt a fly, yet she steals the credit for protecting the emperor. Her husband says, “Shu Li is full of clever plans. She can take on assassins and kill bandits. If the Earl’s household gets involved in the succession struggle, we’re guaranteed to win.”
They not only dote on the concubine and neglect the wife, taking away her authority over the household and plotting to seize her dowry, but also want to use the loyalty and honor of her dead father and brothers as a stepping stone!
Yang Yaoyao is furious. Do they really think a fierce daughter of a military family like her is a pushover?
She tears the scumbag man to shreds, kicks the shameless woman aside, buys up the Earl’s household’s valuable properties, and leaves them with a mountain of troubles.
Yang Yaoyao returns home, picks up her spear again, and sets out to build a career and restore her family’s fortunes.
Who could have guessed that a shameless man would cling to her, weeping and begging her to become the Crown Princess, insisting on giving her both the empire and the throne?
Zhao Yizheng: Yaoyao, in this life, I’m yours, heart and soul. The throne and the empire are all yours!
[The leads are both chaste, and the hero is utterly devoted to his wife]
From ancient times to the present, it has been a principle that if you have the right path, you will get more help, but if you have the wrong path, you will get less help. Ingratitude will be punished. Bankruptcy and divine punishment are inevitable.
Not bad, a bit interesting