When Jiang Li opens her eyes, she has become the biggest wastrel in a matriarchal dynasty, running wild and doing whatever she pleases.
Jiang Li, a good young socialist, is quite pleased with her new identity.
Her family is wealthy and powerful, earning the empress’s suspicion and the aristocratic clans’ disdain, but Jiang Li says none of that matters.
The first thing any professional wastrel does is empty her father-in-law’s house!
The second is to loot every gambling den in the capital!
The third is to snatch a few handsome men and bring them home!
The turbulent capital is won over by Jiang Li’s unconventional approach, after years of being denied a proper life.
Everyone waits to laugh at her and watch her die:
“Her? She might be able to take them, but she’ll never win their hearts!”
“Just wait and see. A melon forced off the vine will never taste sweet.”
But as they wait, her husbands one by one become utterly devoted to her, warming her bed, making money for her, and finding ways to amuse her.
Jiang Li goes completely wild and embraces her true nature. Then, as a storm gathers and the city crumbles, she raises her blade with a sinister grin...
Have you all eaten your fill? I’m about to start chopping!
The empress, reborn, trembles with fear. Something’s wrong. What on earth is wrong? How did the whole plot go off the rails...?