Overworked office drone Qin Ruoqing is reborn in the womb and becomes the most revered eldest legitimate princess of the Daye Dynasty. With no ambition for power and no taste for extravagance, all she wants is to keep to herself and live like a lazy salted fish. Instead, the court and the people mockingly call her the "Salted Fish Princess."
But the Daye Dynasty has an ironclad law: anyone who remains unmarried at twenty must be forced by the authorities into a marriage arranged without either party's consent, and divorce is forbidden for three years. With her nineteenth birthday approaching, she is forced to go on one blind date after another, and she's had enough.
Just as the emperor and empress are at their wits' end over her marriage, they both have the same dream: a century-long catastrophe is coming to the dynasty, and the only way to avert it is for the Salted Fish Princess to travel to the Protector of the Nation Temple, stopping to bow at every step as she prays for blessings.
Her own brother forcibly marches her up the mountain, but she unexpectedly binds herself to a Dramatic Matchmaker System. To avert the catastrophe threatening Daye, she must bring people together, set the chaotic world right, and find her own destined partner.
Three shackles also bind her: she must not use her authority, she must not seek shortcuts, and she must not match people who are wrong for each other.
The princess who once wanted to lie flat is now forced to get to work as a matchmaker.
She has to dodge marriage, bring couples together, and find her own destined partner all at once.
This salted fish may never get to laze around again.
