Wife-Lord, Why Is She Like This?

In her previous life, Yang Jing died at thirty.

She died outside the office where her husband was cheating with a female subordinate, in a pool of her own blood, while her mother-in-law cursed her for having a "useless womb."

When she opened her eyes again, she had become a noble heiress.

Women held power, served as officials, and inherited their families' estates.

Men? Hah. They were merely playthings in the inner court, competing to outshine one another and begging for the smallest scrap of favor.

A gentle young attendant gazed at her through tearful eyes. "Please take pity on me, my lady. Give Xi'er a corner to call home."

A peerlessly beautiful courtesan declared his devotion with his life. "If you cast me aside, Zheng Lin has no choice but to die."

Even the haughty princess clutched her sleeve. "Yang Jing, take me with you! I'll go with you to the ends of the earth!"

Her cheating ex-husband had become utterly meek. "If you'll only marry me, I'll put up with anything."

Yang Jing looked at this completely reversed world and smiled.

So the pregnancy once considered an original sin was, here, the source of power.

So a woman's identity, once treated with contempt, was here the highest honor.

The things that once crushed her had become her sharpest blades.

In this life, she would savor the taste of power, and the experience of being a "man."

More than that, she would show everyone that a woman's world should never be confined to the household. It should reach across the four seas and all lands.

[Reader's Guide]

Follow the heroine's journey of awakening after being reborn, from using the rules to breaking them. Her ultimate goal is to build a new, equal order.

There are several male leads with different personalities and backgrounds, but in the end they all become the heroine's partners in her work or kindred spirits, rather than merely members of a harem.

The setting is fictional, designed to serve the story and its themes.

Premise: Take the wheel of your own life.