Why Is My Marriage Partner Still Laying Low?

After retiring from the transmigration-into-a-book bureau, big shot Ji Ye was assigned to a melodramatic novel.

As a minor character unrelated to the plot, all he had to do was wait for his marriage partner to die, inherit the estate, and lie flat.

Ji Ye: Get rich when my husband dies? There's no better way to enjoy retirement.

Ji Ye: And as for the inheritance, the more the better.

So...

His husband's nephew fell head over heels and begged his uncle to fund a company for his scumbag boyfriend.

Ji Ye stepped in front of his husband and, expressionless, signed the nephew up for a competitive reality show. If you love him, win the startup money with your own hands.

His husband's parents entered the film industry and ran into a crooked producer, so they asked their son for more funding.

Ji Ye stepped in front of his husband and, expressionless, tore up the contract with the original producer. If you can't make the film, it's not because you don't have enough money. It's because you're no good.

Of course, every other expense had to be optimized too.

Custom-made daily necessities were overpriced? Invest in a factory and make them in-house.

A hot-spring villa was overpriced? Buy land in the mountains and build one from scratch.

He even invested the leftover living expenses in a project, hoping foreign currency would protect them from inflation...

General Gu Qicheng suddenly found himself in the modern world, with a beautiful wife.

He had led troops into battle since childhood and had long since become cold and hardhearted. He didn't want a wife, but his wife was just too warm and wonderful...

He helped the nephew get over his love-struck obsession, fulfilled his parents' dream of making movies, invested in a household goods factory that created plenty of jobs, and bought land to build homes that would make it easier for children in the mountains to get an education. Even the project he invested in by living frugally was meant to open up overseas markets and spread their culture abroad.

Gu Qicheng: Spending the rest of my life holding hands with a wife like this might not be so bad.

Gu Qicheng: But why does my wife look at me with three parts regret, three parts indifference, and four parts like she wants to say something but doesn't?

Later...

Gu Qicheng found the answer in a yellowed calendar.

One month... one week... one day until he inherits the estate... Huh? Why hasn't Gu Qicheng died yet? Never mind. It's so comfortable with him around, so inheriting later is fine.

Gu Qicheng: ...

Gu Qicheng: To make my wife give up on inheriting the estate for good, I'd better put in more effort at night from now on.

Theme: Love and growth are always life's most important themes. Embrace love and growth, and experience the splendor of life.