[Marriage First, Love Later] [Redemption] [Household Intrigue and Revenge] [Farming and Sweet Romance]
Shen Zhuohua's ideal life: wearing gold and silver, and being buried in money.
Too bad her family is dirt poor. Her father is selfish, her mother is timid, and her younger sister is a couch potato.
The noblewomen of the capital all laugh at her for returning to the countryside to marry that bumpkin, Goudan.
She doesn't want to go back.
Shen Qizhen's ideal life: lie down whenever she can, and eat her fill until she dies.
Too bad her horoscope is so auspicious that she's dragged off to bring good luck to a sick man.
The general's mansion is enormous, the old matriarch is inscrutable, and none of the others are easy to deal with.
She doesn't want to go.
Who could have guessed...
The dirty little bumpkin, Goudan, has grown into a tall, powerful bandit who comes to snatch his fiancee.
He takes the wrong one.
Shen Qizhen can't be bothered to run, so she simply lies down in the bandits' stronghold.
Shen Zhuohua calmly combs her hair and takes her younger sister's place.
Later...
In the general's mansion, Shen Zhuohua counts her silver and orders her sister-in-law around: Go buy some more rare medicinal herbs. Don't let your brother die.
Young Master Wen: She depends on me so much. I'll put off dying for a while.
In the bandits' stronghold, Shen Qizhen flips through her storybooks and orders the man beside her: Gentler. And rub my shoulders, too.
Chief Zong: She needs me so much. I should make our home even more comfortable.
Later still...
Young Master Wen, who had been sick enough to die, rises through the ranks and smiles as he watches his wife count their money.
The emperor personally appoints the court's most troublesome bandit as a general, and their spacious mansion is filled with the storybooks his wife loves.
The people of the capital: Which bodhisattva do we pray to for a daughter this lucky?
Two couples.
Clever, calculating money-lover x world-weary beauty who overthinks everything
Reserved, lazy faux-lady x wild, handsome wife-doting fanatic