Ten Years as a Neglected Wife: The Laid-Back Fish Gets Spoiled by a Rough-Hewn Man

[Historical era + marriage first, love later + System + building wealth + family life] Jiang Xiaoman has spent ten years in a marriage that’s been celibate in all but name. Then one day, she works herself unconscious in the fields. When she wakes, she discovers she’s bound to the [Lazy Farming System]. The System says: [Host, stop working yourself to the bone! Now all we have to do is slack off to get rich. Our whole thing is “winning while lying down”!] Jiang Xiaoman doesn’t understand or approve. That is, until the System shows her the miserable future in which she works herself to death. To hell with atonement! To hell with being a good wife! Whoever wants this hard life can have it. She’s going to save enough money, dump her cold, burly husband, and live the carefree life of a rich woman! So the villagers notice that Jiang Xiaoman has changed. While everyone else works in the fields until their backs nearly break, she lies under a tree shelling seeds, yet her crops grow better than anyone else’s. Even Lu Cheng, her husband, who used to loathe her, starts acting strange. When she slacks off, he brings her water. When she gets into trouble, he hands her a knife. When she asks for a divorce and tries to run away, the man who’s always been as hard as iron turns red-eyed and pins her firmly in a corner, his voice hoarse and trembling: “Jiang Xiaoman, who said I was going to marry my childhood sweetheart?” “I’ve been done for ever since I fell for you. You want to run? I’ll break your legs!” The whole village is shocked: how did Lu Cheng, who used to treat his wife like she wasn’t even there, turn into a fiercely protective husband? Jiang Xiaoman rubs her round belly and sighs. So much for a celibate marriage. How did it end up like this?