I Just Want to Take It Easy, but My Husband Keeps Flirting with Me

In the twelfth year of Yongchang, Fifth Princess Yu Zhaoyue wakes up inside a coffin. In her previous life, she was a project manager who worked herself to death. In this life, she's the “most useless” princess of the Fengxiang Dynasty. A soul that only wants to “stay alive by lying low” is forced into the cruelest game of power. She knows nothing about poetry or song, but she's an expert at cost accounting and process optimization. She's no good at political scheming, but excels at institutional design and winning people's hearts. She builds an intelligence network through the “Number One Tower in the Realm,” tears down the clans' barriers with a “New Performance Review System,” and sparks a movement with a “Women's Academy.” Facing an iron-fisted empress, an ambitious fourth sister, and the menacing Dragon Hall, Zhaoyue chooses a path no one has ever taken: She won't fight for the throne, only change the rules; she won't seize power, only build a system. “You're fighting over that chair,” she says from the Golden Throne Hall, tracing the borders on a map. “I'm fighting to make sure that whoever sits in it has to play by my rules.” This is a modern mind's overwhelming assault on ancient order, and the ultimate exploration of the nature of power: The best power doesn't make people kneel, but stand tall; the best system doesn't restrain people, but set them free.