(Matriarchal Society) The Scheming Villain's Laid-Back Husband

Chen Nian is a people-pleasing doormat who swallows every grievance just to keep up appearances, until she is betrayed by her own family and dies in an “accident.”

Only after her death does Chen Nian realize that her miserable life was all because she was the heroine’s greatest obstacle in a book. In short, she was the villain.

Now she has been given the chance to be reborn.

Thinking of how she tried so hard in her past life only to gain nothing and meet a tragic end, she decides she’s done pretending.

To hell with being nice. This time, she wants it all.

She gives up on the impossible dream of a loving mother-daughter relationship, but the family fortune has to be hers.

She throws away the fake sisterly affection, while maintaining a good reputation in public.

She kicks aside the male lead and his rivals, who treated her like bait, and chooses the one who loves her most.

At first, the people in the household notice that the eldest legitimate daughter has changed. She goes from proper and courteous to recklessly causing trouble, making a nuisance of herself and offending everyone, leaving no one in peace.

They assume she’s like a grasshopper in autumn, with only a few days left to show off. But later, she manages to climb to a position second only to The Outcast, looking down on everyone else.

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Lin Banban, the eldest legitimate son of the Marquis’s household, is famously easygoing and devoted to tending his flowers and plants. He wants nothing to do with worldly affairs and is practically ready to renounce the world and become a monk.

Unfortunately, he has been saddled with a strange System that insists on making him complete missions.

At first, when he is betrothed to Chen Nian, he is unwilling. Then he hears the System shrieking in his head: Chen Nian is a villain and will die soon. You must not marry her! Your goal is to enter the palace and become a noble consort!

Lin Banban only catches the first half and immediately perks up. “There’s an opportunity like that?”

System: “?”

After marrying Chen Nian, Lin Banban pretends every day that he can’t live without her, that he loves her so much he’d die, and that he can’t bear to be away from her for even fifteen minutes. He wants to put on a convincing show, so that when Chen Nian dies, he can find a devoted excuse to mourn her for the rest of his life.

But he waits and waits. Chen Nian stays full of life and even gives him twins, showing no signs of dying.

Lin Banban: “...”

Instead, she causes so much trouble that she brings down her enemies and turns herself into a powerful minister.

Lin Banban: How is this not going the way I imagined?

At first:

Chen Nian: Pretending to be devoted to me? I’ll play along.

Later:

Chen Nian: That’s right, you’re head over heels for me!

A story about a scatterbrain and a sourpuss.

Both leads are each other’s only partners.

A silly, sweet, feel-good story. Don’t take it too seriously, or you’ll lose.

[A sweet, feel-good story. Just enjoy it (bows).]

Theme: The best years of your life should be spent striving and working hard.