Matriarchy: Starting Out as a Nanny

Pure romance + mild angst + a little sweetness

When Lin Yan opened his eyes beneath a gilded chandelier, he had to face more than just this body’s overly delicate beauty, with its moon-shaped hollows at the collarbones and pearlescent fuzz along the neck. He also had to accept that he had transmigrated into a world turned upside down, where women held power.

Here, women wore suits and made decisions that shaped the world, while men were labeled “beauties” and displayed like exquisite ornaments in shop windows. And he had become the most conspicuous one of all.

When they first met, Su Qingci had a cigarette between her lips and spun a lighter in her fingers as she teased him, saying the corners of his eyes were “red like a poor thing who’s been crying.” Once they grew close, she gripped his chin and declared, “You dare lay a hand on my man?” She was a business tycoon who could turn the tides in Xinghua City, yet she would bend down to straighten his crooked tie and get angry over the way he was mistreated. When he said, “I want to protect you,” rare tenderness appeared in her eyes.

He fell until he was covered in bruises in the fighting room, was subjected to whispers and judgment at banquets, and sobbed with insecurity over not being “tough enough” (angst). Yet with her protection, he grew from a timid boy who hid behind her into someone who could grip a laser rifle. When he rose on tiptoe to kiss her at the shooting range, the tips of his ears were as red as if they’d been seared by fire (sweetness).

When a former teammate in camouflage appeared, smelling of gunpowder, when a matching tie sparked unfounded suspicions, and when the rules of this woman-ruled society kept pressing in, he asked, “Do you like her more because she’s stronger?”

Su Qingci held his trembling shoulders and kissed the tears from his lashes. “I love you. It has nothing to do with how strong or weak you are.”

This is a story about a transmigrator awkwardly growing up in an upside-down world, and a mutual rescue between a domineering female CEO and a fragile beauty.