The Marquis's Wife and Her Attendants

Other people transmigrate and dominate palace-intrigue novels, rise steadily in household-intrigue stories, build wealth in farming novels, or come first in the imperial examinations.

When Jiang Nian transmigrates, she doesn't get to be free. Three generations of her family have been hereditary servants in a duke's estate.

Being single isn't an option either. She has children in tow, and her husband is another unlucky transmigrator like her, a student who can't even lift a chicken, is terrible at both the humanities and sciences, and has an enormous appetite.

Her future looks bleak. The mistress who holds the family's contracts of servitude is a powerless figurehead.

And any peace is fleeting. The original couple secretly swapped the gold articles in their master's dowry and used them to cover their gambling debts.

Gu Nian graduated straight into unemployment. She's been to countless interviews but has no work experience, and she's numb to it all. Whatever happens, happens.

Theme: Everyone is the protagonist of their own life.