[Matriarchy] Noble Sir, Please Behave Yourself!

Zhao Can is a young woman who doesn't quite fit today's beauty standards.

She's 178 centimeters tall. In high heels, she can look down on everyone.

Her friends keep telling her she could be a model.

But her weight doesn't meet model standards. At 135 jin, her BMI is perfect, but in this distorted age when people weighing just 100 jin already cry about being too fat, Zhao Can is considered enormously overweight.

Zhao Can is ordinary in other ways, too. Apart from having fair, smooth skin, she fades into the crowd. At work, she has to wear a uniform, and she'd rather not waste her sleeping time putting on makeup.

When she reaches the age for marriage, her family arranges blind dates. Thirty-year-old Zhao Can is too lazy to argue with them, and after one date after another, she feels as if she's witnessed the rise of an entire galaxy of men.

She tells her friend: All I want is a family-oriented, handsome, rich, responsible, respectful, considerate, kindhearted man with no bad habits. What's wrong with that?

Her friend: Sounds like the final fantasy of a brain-dead office worker right before she dies.

Then Zhao Can dies.

Zhao Can: = =

The good news: she transmigrates.

At first, she's dazed and confused as all sorts of strangers take the stage one after another.

Her mother has just died. Her father is a frail widower. Her mother's male attendants do nothing but cry. Her relatives, fierce as wolves and tigers, want to seize her family's property and covet her position.

Her predecessor, another "Zhao Can," was a wastrel who did nothing but visit brothels and play with crickets. In terror, grief, and despair, he drank himself to death.

Then she arrived.

Zhao Can: ...

Zhao Can: Not happy.

Zhao Can doesn't want to die, so she has no choice but to grit her teeth and get to work. She cleans up her predecessor's mess, buries her mother, cares for her frail father, comforts her weeping male attendants, and tries her best to hold on to the family fortune.

Zhao Can used to work a 996 schedule, but now she's forced into 007. Every night, she wants to hug her miserable self and cry.

So busy working her fingers to the bone, Zhao Can doesn't notice that her reputation in the capital is growing. Her figure and appearance, unwelcome in her old world, are admired in this one. The gazes fixed on her shift from disdain to ever-increasing passion.

Reader's Guide:

Yes, I want to write another matriarchal-world story. Here's the blurb first!

1. The worldbuilding follows the author's previous matriarchal-world novel, but the characters won't cross over. Women give birth. The author firmly believes that women's ability to bear children is their greatest power. For the detailed explanation, see the author's note after Chapter One once the story opens.

2. The heroine is still irresistible to everyone. Everyone loves her.

3. Whoever the heroine chooses will be the male lead. There will be many male candidates, so don't read if that's not your thing.

The author isn't into small, weak men (in terms of physique), but there will be male candidates of this type. The heroine definitely won't choose one of them in the end. Readers who like this type should think carefully before reading. The author respects everyone's kinks, but this is the author's own kink. The author wants to write this kind of story, so the author will write it according to their own wishes. Sorry!

Theme: Where there's a will, there's a way.