The Matrilocal Husband

In the final years of the Wu dynasty, the age was turbulent and the realm in chaos. Jin and Liao stood against each other, and the situation was unstable. After a century of humiliation, the first glimmer of an end had finally appeared. Emperor Tianzuo, Wanyan Aguda, Wuqimai, Genghis Khan Temujin, Jamukha, Chilawen, Mukhali, Borhu, Borchu, Qin Hui, Yue Fei, Li Gang, Zhong Shidao, Tang Ke, Wu Min, Geng Nanzhong, Zhang Bangchang: loyal ministers and treacherous officials vied against each other, heroes and ruthless schemers competed for power. The northern barbarians surged south, a million iron cavalry thundered against Yanmen Pass, the realm fell, and its people suffered. A nation and its people endured a century of humiliation and resistance, while the pioneers wept, cried out, and mourned...

A little before all that, in Jiangning City, undercurrents were stirring. An unremarkable live-in son-in-law in a merchant family was living a carefree life with absolutely no sense of responsibility, wanting nothing more than to eat and watch performances...

The original novel of the hit TV series starring Guo Qilin and Song Yi.