Pei Jianjun is very busy. After transmigrating into the body of the "ugly widow" of the wealthy Yan Zhi Wan family in Luoyang, she has to shoulder the family business, look after a household with elders and children, and work on regaining her beauty. She is juggling both career and family.
To help her adopted "eldest son" prepare for the imperial examinations, she decides to hire a tutor. The tutor she brings home turns out to be Zhao Ziyi, a young heir prince traveling incognito in Luoyang.
From then on, she is even busier, juggling her business, her family, and flirting with a handsome young man.
The heir prince Zhao Ziyi is a diligent and accomplished scholar with a strong desire to improve, but this is his first time teaching.
His student, a refined, clever, and eager young man of his own age, is not difficult to teach. It is his mother who is the problem: she is vain and improper, showing herself in public every day and even visiting brothels.
Faced with her passionate gaze and attentive care, Zhao Ziyi repeatedly insists, "I am a distinguished heir prince who has studied the classics since childhood. How could I possibly fall for a shameless, greedy, lustful female merchant? Especially when she's a widow."
Two years later...
Zhao Ziyi: "My lady, you are learned and talented. Please enlighten me: what does this 'wo cao' you keep saying mean?"
Pei Jianjun: "...It means a man and a woman fighting. Would you like to try fighting me?"
Zhao Ziyi: "Nonsense! How could a gentleman lay hands on a young lady?"
And yet, after the lamplight flickered across their shadows and they lay beneath embroidered quilts amid crimson waves...
Zhao Ziyi: "Wo cao, this is amazing."
A few things to know:
1. The heroine is a makeup artist and will regain her looks.
2. The heroine is thirty, the hero is twenty. It's an older-woman-younger-man romance, and she pursues him.
3. The setting is the Northern Song dynasty, but I'm not good at history. Feel free to point out any mistakes, but please don't scold me. I'm very fragile.
Theme: The courage to discover the joys of life.
