Bringing the National Treasury to the 1960s, I Play the Fool While Outsmarting Everyone

Shen Shishu transmigrated, or more precisely, from a fallen dynasty to the 1960s.

When enemy forces attacked the palace, Shen Shishu, a princess, was hiding in her bedchamber with the key to the imperial treasury in her hand. She was prepared to swallow it and give her life for her country when the enemy broke in.

As footsteps drew closer, Shen Shishu gritted her teeth and swallowed the key. When she woke, everything had changed.

She had transmigrated. She was alive, and she still had the treasury key, which let her come and go from the treasury and take whatever she wanted.

But this was an entirely new world. Because of the times, everyone around her was poor. Her new status was even lower: her parents had just died, leaving her an orphan with nothing but a little thatched hut.

Shen Shishu knew she absolutely couldn't reveal who she was. She had to keep pretending to be poor. She'd perfected the art of playing the pig to eat the tiger back in the imperial palace.

To solve her work-point problem and deal with all the matchmakers who kept turning up, Shen Shishu decided to find herself a prince consort.

Her criteria were simple: he just had to be good-looking. So she set her sights on Xie Yiqing, the most handsome, poorest, and frailest young intellectual at the Educated Youth Station.

Shen Shishu was bold, too. Forget the matchmakers: she grabbed some sweets and meat and charged straight into the Educated Youth Station, blocking Xie Yiqing's path in front of everyone. They all waited to see her make a fool of herself.

But Xie Yiqing wasn't actually poor. He'd only been sent to the countryside so his family could keep him out of trouble. As his mother put it, he had to play the pig to eat the tiger and make sure he didn't give himself away.

And so these two masters of pretending to be harmless got together, putting on an acting contest every day…