Matriarchy: Forced to Become Her Plaything

Everyone’s favorite + Faithful to each other + Matriarchal Alternate World + Court Intrigue + Household Rivalry + First Love

Night after night, Zhao Suining is tormented by nightmares in which the Zhao dynasty is usurped by powerful ministers and the family’s foundations totter on the brink. The only person who can defy fate and change everything is named Wei Wuyu.

Fourteen-year-old Wei Wuyu looks like an ethereal little fairy, but beneath that face he’s a thoroughly rebellious young wastrel.

He climbs trees to raid birds’ nests, challenges Confucian propriety, refuses to marry, and spends every day running wild. He even dares to criticize The Exemplary Men’s Biographies in public for its absurdity.

He considers himself the county magistrate’s legitimate son and dreams of following in his mother’s footsteps to serve as an official and patrol the streets. He has no idea that the Wei family has been hereditary servants in the marquis’s household for generations. His so-called status as the magistrate’s son is merely a favor granted by the Zhao family in remembrance of an old kindness. Though they live outside the estate, they remain registered as servants, and the fate of the entire family rests on the Zhao family’s whim.

The innocent boy is still resisting marriage, unaware that he has long since become someone else’s destined one.

Zhao Suining gazes at this little beast, all sharp edges and heedless of the rules of rank, and makes up her mind.

Let the dynasty fall, let the powerful ministers rebel. She holds the reins of power and will clear every storm from his path, sheltering this rebellious, unruly little creature beneath her wings and letting him live as freely and boldly as he pleases.