The Commandery Princess Goes Laid-Back and Pretends to Be Poor in the 1970s [Pocket Dimension]

[My new novel, From the Start, I Was Kidnapped with the Female Lead of a Period Novel, is now underway. Please add it to your reading list and follow me~]

--Novel blurb--

The Great Liang Dynasty really had come to an end.

Rebels had reached the city walls, and the gates were about to fall. The easygoing Prince Shen Shaoyuan and his daughter were crouched in the treasury, trembling as they prepared to die for their country.

But the rebels did not break into the treasury for a long time. Even the distant sounds of fighting gradually faded into silence.

At last, the father and daughter worked up the courage to open the treasury door.

A neighbor passing by with a hoe called out, "Seventh Brother Shen, the sun's up. Time to go to work!"

The good news: They had transmigrated, their lives were spared, and they still had their treasure.

But...

The bad news: Everything here was completely different from Great Liang. Flaunting their wealth would be pure suicide.

Shen Shaoyuan declared firmly, "We're poor. Our family is very poor!"

As a princess of Great Liang, Shen Mo'er had been promised in marriage before she transmigrated. Her potential matches included the son of a grand secretary, a general's youngest son, a newly graduated top scholar, and even the second prince of a neighboring country.

Shen Mo'er had only one requirement for her future husband: He had to be handsome.

Unfortunately, just as a stack of portraits was delivered to the prince's residence, the rebels attacked the city.

After transmigrating, Shen Mo'er looked at the treasury behind her, then at the neighbor grunting as he hauled manure, and sighed deeply.

Fine, she would change her requirements: First, he had to be handsome. Second, he had to be poor.

Before long, Shen Mo'er had a target: Fu Zhiqing, the educated youth at the settlement. He was fair-skinned and handsome, and he wore ragged clothes every day. His family had to be very poor.

He's the one!

Fu Mingze had been sent to the countryside by his family during a time of great unrest. Before he left, his elders earnestly advised him, "Everything else is fine. Just act poor. If you meet someone suitable, you can get married and settle down in the countryside. Don't be too picky about the conditions, as long as she's poor."

Fu Mingze looked at the girl in front of him. She was disheveled and dressed in rags, but her bright charm still shone through. Her family was also known as one of the poorest in the village.

She's the one!

Later...

Shen Mo'er spotted a courtyard house in the capital. "I want to buy this place. Money's no object."

The door opened. Her husband, who was supposedly back home to visit his impoverished father, stood beneath an osmanthus tree in a suit, his handsome face wearing a slightly impatient expression. "Who said my family was short on money? It's not for sale!"

They looked up and stared at each other.

Shen Mo'er: Poor? An impoverished father? Yeah, right. I can't believe I fell for that!

At least they didn't have to pretend anymore.

September 4, 2023

[Reading Guide]

* Slow burn, with daily life and career-building.

* Set in a fictional world. The characters' values do not represent the author's, and the world of the novel is not the real world.

* Protect wildlife and cherish the natural environment.

* I'm honored if you like it, and it's perfectly normal if you don't. No need to tell me if you're dropping the story. See you in another life if we meet again.

--Upcoming Novel Blurb 1--

From the Start, I Was Kidnapped with the Female Lead of a Period Novel. Please add it to your reading list~

This was Shen Banyue's eighth year after transmigrating into a post-apocalyptic world. She had awakened several abilities and struggled to survive in a world overrun by zombies.

One day, while searching for clean water, Shen Banyue encountered zombies. One moment she was fighting them, and the next, everything went black. She had transmigrated into a period novel.

The good news: Although this era was poor, it was incomparably better than the apocalypse. At least clean water was everywhere, and she still had the abilities she'd awakened in the apocalypse.

The bad news: She had transmigrated into a nine-year-old girl locked in a dark room with the novel's female lead by human traffickers. The female lead was only a three-year-old toddler.

According to the plot, the female lead would be rescued after a kindhearted person caught the traffickers in the act of selling her. After failing to find her birth parents, she would be adopted by that kindhearted person. Shen Banyue's cannon-fodder character, however, would be sold into a remote mountain village and wouldn't be rescued for decades.

After reviewing the plot, Shen Banyue realized that even if she escaped the traffickers, she had nowhere to go.

Her original body's parents had died, and her uncle had sold her to the traffickers. If she went back, he'd just sell her again. Even if he didn't, she'd be worked like an ox by her unscrupulous uncle and his family.

So Shen Banyue punched the tall, burly trafficker and knocked him flat.

The trafficker wiped his bloody nose and wailed, "I'll let you go! Isn't that enough?"

Shen Banyue shook her little fist. "No! Tomorrow, you're taking me with you to meet the buyer!"

Trafficker: "???"

He'd never heard such an outrageous demand!

--

After the traffickers were arrested by the police,

Shen Banyue held the female lead's little hand and said, her eyes red, "Those people gave me a lot of knockout drugs. They messed up my brain, and I can't remember anything. I only remember that she's my little sister, and I can't be separated from her."

Trafficker: "..."

She's lying! She's making it all up!

--Upcoming Novel Blurb 2--

Before the Cannon-Fodder Female Supporting Character in a Period Novel Runs Away with Her Lover

Liu Mianmian transmigrated into a book, becoming the cannon-fodder female supporting character whose life was changed after she was switched at birth.

In the novel, after the original girl was brought back to her birth family, years of estrangement kept her from fitting in. Her parents favored the adopted daughter they'd raised, and eventually, for the sake of the family's future, they sacrificed her by marrying her off to a sickly young man from a military compound.

The original girl grew to hate her parents. Just days after the wedding, she stole her husband's family's belongings and ran away with another man. But she trusted the wrong person, and after he swindled her out of all her money, she was sold to a remote mountain village, where she died a miserable death.

When Liu Mianmian arrived, it was the first day of her marriage.

Her new husband was coughing weakly inside the room, while her lover waited at the end of the alley outside to meet her.

Liu Mianmian: Well, this is exciting!

-

Shen Weizhou had been reborn. More precisely, after he died, he went to the apocalypse and then came back.

In his previous life, he had been frail. Just days after he married Liu Mianmian, she stole things from the house and ran away with another man. The shock and anger killed him before long.

After death, he transmigrated to the apocalypse. Having completed countless difficult missions, he finally increased his life points.

At the moment he was reborn, he had just married Liu Mianmian. He had 82 hours left before she stole his things and ran away.

-

After transmigrating into the book, Liu Mianmian discovered that the Shen family was not only well-off, but that her parents-in-law were good people, too. Her husband was gloomy and hard to approach, but at least he was not long for this world.

This was the perfect family for a happy-go-lucky slacker like her!

Why run away? She was putting down roots in this household!

But why did her supposedly terminally ill husband seem to be getting healthier by the day?

Reborn Shen Weizhou watched Liu Mianmian coldly. He had already set his trap and built his cage, just waiting for that foolish woman to walk right in.

But 82 hours passed, then 82 days, and instead of running away, the woman seemed to be living better and better.

#TheCannonFodderFemaleLeadJustWantsToBeALazyFoolAndWaitToBeWidowed#

#Shocking!TheHusbandWhoWasSupposedToDieSoonIsGettingHealthierByTheDay#

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