Good Fortune for a Widow

After working herself to death from overdoing it at her 996 job, Ji Rong transmigrates into the legitimate daughter of the Prime Minister Ji, married into a general's household.

Ji Rong sees that she wields great power and has no bothersome in-laws or family squabbles to deal with.

Her only boss (crossed out) husband rarely even shows his face at home.

She marvels: Can life really be this good?

She happily decides to lie flat, spending her days eating and drinking to her heart's content!

Every now and then, she just has to write a letter to her boss (crossed out) husband to keep their relationship warm!

Unfortunately, the good times don't last. News soon arrives from the front that General Cen has died in battle!

Ji Rong: ...

All sorts of people coveting the General's household wealth come crawling out of the woodwork. Her birth parents also show up, wanting to take her back home.

As if! Why wouldn't she want to be her own boss?

Ji Rong pretends to be deeply devoted to her dead boss (crossed out) husband,

weeping bitterly at his funeral and retching nonstop.

Before long, joyful news spreads through the General's household: The Madam is expecting!

The emperor takes pity on the Cen family, loyal servants of the empire for generations, and grants the unborn child a marquisate.

Lying on her chaise longue, Ji Rong smiles: In ten months, she'll adopt some random baby, and this iron rice bowl will be secure.

A year later, the beautiful young mother with a child has become the most tasteful and elegant layabout in the capital!

Her lust gets the better of her, and she sets her sights on the rising, refined beauty Ye Zhiqing, inviting him to become her lover!

The dignified young lord Ye crushes the teacup in his hand to pieces.

Known as Ye Zhiqing but actually the great general Cen Mubai, he discovered the truth behind his family's brutal deaths, endured humiliation while investigating for years, and finally had no choice but to fake his death and escape.

He knew that this eldest daughter of the Ji family was in love with someone else, and he hadn't so much as touched a strand of her hair on their wedding night.

Who would have thought that once he reached the front lines, he would receive one affectionate letter after another from Madam Ji?

Cen Mubai: ... He really couldn't figure out what was going on in Madam Ji's mind.

At the funeral, she wept so bitterly, tears streaming down her face like pear blossoms in the rain, that his heart ached. He almost believed her feelings were genuine!

That is, until the General's household soon announced the great news that the Madam was pregnant.

Cen Mubai: ... I really fell for her trick!

For the sake of revenge, he put up with the outrageous cuckolding.

But then this woman turned around and tried to seduce him, her stand-in, Lord Ye?

Unforgivable!

Hah. Woman, you clearly have no idea what death means!

From now on, let this general teach you personally!

(Blurb written on April 14, 2023, and already screenshotted.)

Theme: Building a beautiful life together