After transmigrating, Shen Ye, once a top strategist in his previous life, becomes a lowly live-in son-in-law in Jiangzhou, Great Xia. Faced with his noble-born, breathtakingly beautiful yet icy wife, the gifted Lin Xiyue, Shen Ye only wants to lie flat. “Tea, fishing, plays, and chess. What could be better than that?”
Yet the more he yearns for a quiet life, the more trouble comes looking for him. Powerful nobles close in, the court teeters on the brink, and foreign enemies pound at the gates... Everyone is forcing him to act. Watching his peaceful days fall apart, Shen Ye lets out a sigh. “Fine. Since I can't have a quiet life, I'll have to keep this realm in order myself.”
From cracking strange cases and cleaning up the bureaucracy to crushing rebellions and expanding the borders...
