Lin Wanxing, a workaholic from the twenty-first century who lives to make money, opens her eyes after an all-night shift and an electric shock to find herself in the Great Jing Dynasty, as the love-struck principal consort of Prince Jing.
The original owner was the legitimate daughter of a Grand Tutor, blessed with both beauty and family status. Yet she had relentlessly pursued and pressured the cold-hearted Prince Xiao Jinyuan into marriage. Three months after the wedding, he had shut her away in the cold palace. Then she fell and hit the back of her head over the prince’s beloved secondary consort, and died on the spot. Taking over the body, Lin Wanxing immediately understood: a man’s love is worthless. Freedom and riches are what really matter!
Faced with a scheming secondary consort who makes trouble in the prince’s manor, maids who throw their weight around as informants, and noblewomen across the city laughing at her, she tears into the false-hearted beauty, gives the servants a piece of her mind, and lies flat. Her motto is not to compete, not to fight, and not to please anyone. Xiao Jinyuan had been disgusted by this marriage forced upon him and wanted only for his princess consort to know her place. But after hitting her head once, she changed completely.
She used to follow him everywhere; now she turns and flees at the sight of him. She used to weep with jealousy over him; now, at the mere mention of his name, she only wonders how to make off with the prince’s silver and escape. He deliberately ignores her to test her, but she enjoys the peace and packs her bags, even offering him a divorce agreement and asking to be set free. For the first time in his life, Prince Jing Xiao Jinyuan is stumped: he meant to freeze her out until she gave up, so how did he end up driving her to focus entirely on escaping?
The clingy princess consort of old has become a cool, CEO-like expert at making a getaway, and the prince switches to pursuing her in reverse, closing in step by step to keep her from leaving. Lin Wanxing: “Don’t come near me! I don’t want to spend one more second in this prison of a manor. Once I’ve saved enough money, I’m leaving to travel the world!”
Xiao Jinyuan (holding her captive, laughing low and imperiously): “I tore up the divorce agreement. I’ll give you half the manor’s fortune. You’re staying, and you’re not going anywhere.”
