[A distant, cold marquis x an easygoing, lazy couch potato]
[Cozy slice-of-life story]
After transmigrating, Zheng Yu becomes the mistress of a marquis's household in ancient times, with a ready-made son and husband.
Unfortunately, her son thinks he rules the world and refuses to be disciplined. The servants pay lip service and don't take her seriously as mistress of the house. Her husband is a complete absentee, and she sees him less than once a year.
There are also plenty of concubines from both inside and outside the palace. They scheme against, fear, and look down on her as the mistress of the house, and would love to get rid of her.
But none of that matters. No one is going to stop her from lying flat.
Her son skips school. That's perfect, since she can't be bothered to watch his studies all day. "Then let's not go to school. Who says you have to study your whole life?"
The young heir, who was expecting to be dragged off to study relentlessly: "?"
The servants are disloyal? Out of sight, out of mind. "Send every last one of them to the estate to grow crops and vegetables with their parents."
The servants are horrified: "!" It took them so long to get promoted!
The concubines scheme against one another, and before dawn they come disturbing her sleep, chattering away until she's had enough.
Zheng Yu is fed up, so she simply holds a card-game tournament.
Lose once, and you get a date with the marquis.
Lose three times, and you get dinner with the marquis.
Lose nine times, and you get to spend the night with the marquis!
After getting rid of the extra people, Zheng Yu can finally sleep in again.
The only problem is that the marquis, who is rarely seen, suddenly appears.
He smiles. "I hear you've been using your husband as a wager?"
Lin Xianyu is detached and indifferent, caring nothing for worldly affairs. To him, there are only two kinds of people in the world: himself and people who have nothing to do with him.
After completing his duty to produce an heir, he decides to become a monk.
Then the steward reports that Madam has changed completely and turned the household upside down.
Madam? Who?
Lin Xianyu reclines in his chair. "Oh." Either way, she has nothing to do with him.
His son comes running to complain that his mother is terribly cold toward him.
His mother? Who?
They're all just other people to him. Lin Xianyu doesn't care, and even kindly invites the unfamiliar child: "Want to become a monk together?"
That day, he gets his things in order, ready to begin his spiritual practice in earnest.
At the last moment, a group of women he's never met stops him, saying they've come to collect a debt.
He owes them money? Who?
Lin Xianyu smiles, deciding to meet this audacious Zheng Yu.
Later, he learns that Zheng Yu is his wife, and she lives up to her name: as long as she doesn't starve, she won't move a muscle more than necessary.
Even when things get heated in bed, she'll say, "You carry on. I'm going to sleep."
There are still only two kinds of people in the world, but now one kind is him and Zheng Yu, and the other is everyone else.
Theme: Be independent and strong, and respect and love yourself.