The Cannon Fodder Matriarch Just Wants to Get Rich (Female-Dominated World)

Steady and dependable bonsai artist heroine // obsessive, teasing hero

Lian Qian transmigrates into a female-dominated novel as a high-level cannon-fodder character. The hero's family falls from power and ends up in her village. Since they once helped her family, her father takes them in.

As the years pass, the hero's exquisite good looks catch the eye of a high-ranking official. The only way to resolve the situation is for the two of them to marry. Lian Qian has raised him, after all, and can't bring herself to refuse. She thinks, "Being a cannon-fodder wife isn't so bad." Once the hero's mother and childhood friend have their cases overturned, the two of them will divorce and go their separate ways.

She isn't interested in the hero. She only wants to make money. All she can think about is: I want to achieve financial independence in ancient times! I'm not going to be a wage-slaving workhorse.

One day, a bonsai she made using what she learned in her previous life glows green. Only then does Lian Qian realize it is showing the object's "fortune value."

Different colors represent different levels of fortune. "Green is the best." "Black is the worst."

She works outside the home and saves money. As soon as she has enough, she leases a mountain to grow ornamental trees, then rents fields to grow flowers, and eventually builds a kiln, too.

Gradually, her bonsai attract the attention of the rich and powerful, even the imperial family. They want her to become an official, but Lian Qian refuses. "I only want a peaceful country life with financial freedom."

Lian Qian opens one bonsai garden after another. She has long since achieved financial freedom.

*

Mu Chen is brought by his father from place to place before they finally end up in Sui Family Village. He is clever and knows that the family's livelihood depends on the eldest daughter working away from home, though he has never seen her.

That changes the day he and his younger brother are about to be sold. A person appears like a deity and rescues them. From that moment on, she takes root in his heart.

When he learns they are to marry, Mu Chen is content, even though the marriage is fake. But his wife seems to have no interest in him. Then one day, someone drugs her, and he realizes his chance has come.

*

Lian Qian props her forehead up, clinging to her restraint as she leans against the bed. Her cheeks are flushed like peach blossoms, heat and desire tormenting her. Her eyes fix on the person not far away. "Mu Chen, get out!"

"Get out?" The man in the room has a handsome, refined face, but when he smiles, his eyes hold a seductive charm. He raises a hand to remove his outer robe, then reaches to undo his inner garment and slowly approaches.

"I've been waiting for this for a long time."

"Let me take good care of you, my wife."

PS

Both leads are each other's only partners. A warm, cozy farming-life story about everyday family matters. Women can bear children, but only if they choose to. Women are taller and stronger than men, and women hold the important positions. The society's reproductive system is similar to that of hyenas.

The heroine is five years older than the hero and has a slight everyone-loves-her quality. The original novel's protagonists have nothing to do with the hero. The hero is not an innocent person. Neither lead bears children. Please avoid this if these points bother you.

(Blurb written March 30, 2025)

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Everyone says Helian Guan is lucky. At thirteen, she was taken in by the Nan family, the sea's most powerful clan. While still young, she became the wife of Nan Yan, the young master of the Nan family. Yet a year later, they divorced.

After the divorce, Helian Guan left the Nan family and formally entered the Buddhist order. She became the only disciple of Master Yuanhui, taking the name Guannan.

Three years later, Guannan travels to Lingnan to help a friend suppress the Japanese pirates. There, she encounters Nan Yan. When they meet, he is even more beautiful than before, dazzling and breathtaking, yet more composed. His eyes are full of hatred and fury as he looks at Guannan. "What? You heard I'm getting married and can't even offer me your congratulations?"

Guannan's eyes are like mist in the depths of the mountains, remote and ethereal. She quietly looks at Nan Yan. "Congratulations." His resentment only deepens. Gritting his teeth, he says, "You should congratulate me. She's not as frail as you. I'm sure I'll be able to have children with her."

A faint smile touches Guannan's lips. Her eyes lower, and she seems entirely at peace.

The Nan family has a rare bloodline, and Nan Yan is the only one of his generation. He has been doted on since childhood. But after meeting Guannan, all he wants is every bit of her love and desire.

As young spouses, they once tentatively explored every aspect of married life together. But they were young, and cracks gradually formed between them. The greatest problem was that they still had no children, and the Nan elders grew increasingly dissatisfied.

During an argument, Nan Yan lost his temper and said the word divorce. Overcome by anger, he fainted. By the time he awoke, half a year had passed, and everyone told him he and Guannan had divorced.

To keep Guannan, Nan Yan relied on the effects of the Wife-Binding spell to share her bed once a month. But after six months of this, Guannan forced him to swallow a pill that would break the spell.

Wrapped in panic and fury, Nan Yan shouted, "Am I in your way because you're looking for someone new? Is that why you're so desperate to get rid of me?"

Guannan looked down at him, calm and impassive. Without a word, she pinched his mouth open and forced him to take the pill. Her voice was indifferent. "You need to have a child."

Nan Yan hates Guannan, but at the height of his hatred, love follows close behind. If the Nan elders forced Guannan to leave him because their bloodline needed an heir, then he will personally bear a child with Guannan, whatever it takes.

1. Both leads are each other's only partners. Strong warning: the woman can bear children but will not; the man bears children. Very melodramatic.

2. Major warning: the hero is very unhinged, and the heroine will discipline him physically.

3. There is a transmigrator, and that person is not a good person.

Theme: Stay true to yourself