Has Mrs. Gojo Been Phoning It In Today?

Question: Would you be willing to have a husband who gives you several million yen a month for living expenses, but never comes home or sees you?

Answer: Eat, drink, and have fun every day, with the occasional trip. Keep strict social distance and know when to give each other space. Make some desserts now and then to placate your husband, and absolutely do not call or bother him. Keep your words of concern superficial, and turn a deaf ear to the family nagging you to have a baby. Put on a show of being a kind stepmother, and half-heartedly play the devoted wife.

If he raises the allowance to tens of millions, I could even look after his mistress... no, his younger sister during her postpartum confinement!

I know how to be a virtuous wife.

And I know how to raise children, too.

Sasuke: Is that so, Auntie?

Ichigo: Really, Aunt?

Fushiguro Megumi: Mom, who are they?!

Tohsaka Sakura: They're enemies, silly little brother!

Jiang Cheng used to be a mission-taker. In one world after another, she saved girls who were desperate and bullied, foiled the schemes of ambitious Shinigami, and even wielded the blade in her nephew's place, slaughtering her own clan, including her elder brother...

After retiring, all she wanted was an easy life.

"Yeah, life really is easy after running into people from my past..."

Content warnings: An arranged marriage between families, a melodramatic marriage-first-love-later plot, and the male lead is in the title.

Lots of original worldbuilding, and some settings from the source works have been changed to serve the plot. OOC warning.

Theme: Marriage requires communication.