Transmigrate into High Society: Being a Lady of Leisure Isn’t Easy

Blurb: A modern woman transmigrates to ancient times overnight. She lives by the principle of keeping her head down: if no one provokes her, she won't provoke anyone. But fate has other plans. Born into the upper class, she is destined to marry a man from another noble family, and soon finds herself caught up in one troublesome struggle after another.

Which noble family in ancient times wasn't bound up in a web of relatives, with men taking multiple wives and concubines? Qu Qingyou never imagined she would marry into such a sprawling clan, let alone the foremost of the three great ducal houses. She can only tread carefully, relying on her quick wit to carve out a place for herself.

How could the ancient imperial court ever be peaceful and stable? It is all clashes of blades and shadows, with one struggle ending only for another to begin. As the daughter-in-law of a duke's household, how could Qu Qingyou stay out of it? She has no choice but to carefully navigate the noblewomen of the imperial court.

For herself, her husband, and her family, being a noblewoman in ancient times is no easy task. How will a modern woman manage it?

Excerpt 1:

When he approached with a smile, he saw her pluck a pink hydrangea and toy with it in her hand. He smiled and asked, "Are you going to toss that to me?"

Qu Qingyou had been lost in thought. Suddenly hearing a man's voice, at once familiar and unfamiliar, she looked up and saw Luo Hao standing before her, smiling, his clothes fluttering in the breeze. He rather looked the part of a gentleman. Smiling, she tossed the flower toward him. "Then you had better catch it, young master."

Would he be the one she was destined to spend her life with?

Excerpt 2:

Old Madam Mu smiled. "I don't know whether the Qu girl is lucky or unlucky to have run into you. But You'er is truly exceptional. Our Duke Ding's household needs a daughter-in-law like her if it's to prosper for another hundred years."

"Great-grandmother certainly thinks far ahead." Luo Hao took the ginseng tea from a maid and handed it to her.

"Don't tell me you weren't thinking the same thing, you rascal?" Old Madam Mu narrowed her eagle eyes. After taking a sip of tea, she began teasing her grandson again. "That You'er doesn't seem easy to keep in line. I really wonder which of you will have the upper hand after you marry."

Luo Hao smiled. "Why do you make it sound like two armies facing off? I married my wife to cherish her. What's all this talk about keeping each other in line?"

Excerpt 3:

"Wife, what is love?"

The tipsy Qu Qingyou tilted her head and looked at him, baffled. "You fool, you don't even know what love is?"

"Then why don't you tell me, wife?"

"Love means two people together for a lifetime. This doorway is narrow, with room for only you and me. Hongyu, do you understand?"

His first thought was that she wanted him all to herself. "Wife, you want me to cherish only you forever, right? Why go around the houses?" Love was such an incomprehensible word.

Only then did Qu Qingyou realize that she and he had never belonged to the same world. She had worked hard to fit into his world, but he could not enter hers.

But so what? She would still find a way to make him slowly fall for her, fall for her body, and fall for her heart.