A woman who transmigrates wakes to find a baby asleep in her arms. While she is still reeling, a woman with bright eyes and thick eyebrows comes in with a basin of water and grins at her. "Wife, wash your face."
The transmigrator looks at the countless patches on her clothes, then surveys their drafty, bare-walled home and takes a deep breath. Make money. She absolutely has to make money. No one is going to stop her.
But she never expected the biggest obstacle to be not poverty, but her carpenter wife.
Somehow, that honest, simple woman gets hold of a battered book titled The Thirty-Six Ways to Seduce a Woman.
From then on, the atmosphere at home changes completely. The little carpenter starts practicing her fingers, her waist, her gaze, until even their daughter asks, "Mom, is your eye twitching?"
The little carpenter blushes and shakes her head, then keeps practicing.
Three months later, she has abs, a strong waist, and her wife comes home... even less often.
The little carpenter crouches by the door, aggrieved, and opens the last page. It says: Play hard to get and make her come back on her own.
She freezes, then leaps to her feet. So her wife isn't staying away because she doesn't want to come back. She's afraid she'll never want to leave once she does?
The night her wife finally comes home, the little carpenter pins her against the door.
"Wife."
"Hmm?"
"I've learned every trick in the book."
"...And then?"
The little carpenter lowers her head, the tips of her ears bright red. Her voice is as faint as a mosquito's. "Would you... like to see how well I learned?"
The next day, her wife supports her aching waist, face flushed, and hurries straight back to town.
The little carpenter follows her to the door and calls, "Will you come back tomorrow?"
A distant voice answers with one word: "Yes!"
Later, a neighbor asks the little carpenter, "Why is your wife always running off?"
The little carpenter thinks it over, then blushes to the roots of her hair. "She's afraid that if she comes home... she won't be able to leave."
The neighbor: ???
Later still, everyone in the village knows that the honest carpenter on the east side of the bridge has her money-minded wife wrapped around her little finger.
But the little carpenter knows the truth: she's the one who's been thoroughly conquered.
Theme: Treat your wife well and you'll get rich
