Chapter Summaries

After transmigrating into the Song Family’s eldest legitimate daughter, Song Yutang confronted her father, Song Ruowei, and Sun Meifang over being forced to marry the Jiang heir. She extracted a ten-million-yuan dowry and valuable family possessions before leaving for the wedding, while Song Ruowei warned that life as the Jiang Family’s daughter-in-law would not be easy.

• Song Yutang recalled that the Song Family had called her back to marry the comatose Jiang heir after Song Ruowei had taken her place in the engagement.
• Song Yutang slapped Song Ruowei and Sun Meifang, then rebuked her father and Song Mingzhe for treating her and her mother unfairly.
• Song Yutang demanded a dowry, rejected her father’s one-million-yuan check, and forced him to write one for ten million yuan.
• Song Yutang took a painting, vases, her father’s Rolex, Song Mingzhe’s cuff links, and Song Ruowei’s jade pendant as additional dowry.
• Song Yutang bid farewell to her family and left for the wedding car as Song Ruowei warned her that marrying into the Jiang Family would not guarantee an easy life.

Song Yutang married into the Jiang family and discovered that her wealthy in-laws were far more down-to-earth than she expected, while the family matriarch immediately began criticizing her upbringing. The chapter left Song Yutang facing the old master and his wife as they insisted she obey the Jiang family's rules.

• Song Yutang rebuked Butler Wang for his contemptuous treatment and rode with the wedding convoy to the Jiang family manor.
• On the way, Song Yutang checked inheritance law and considered how she might benefit if her father and relatives died without a will.
• Li Xiulan welcomed Song Yutang warmly, while an expensively dressed relative disparaged the fruit she had prepared.
• Jiang Guoqiang and his yellow-haired son rushed in wearing informal clothes, and Jiang Guoqiang punched the son after he threatened Song Yutang.
• Song Yutang realized Jiang Guoqiang, Li Xiulan, and the young man were her in-laws and brother-in-law.
• The Jiang family old master's wife scolded Song Yutang for failing to greet her elders and told her to follow the family's rules.

On her first day in the Jiang family, Song Yutang defended her in-laws from Chen Ruyin and secured the old master’s approval during the wedding tea ceremony. After meeting her unconscious husband, Jiang Muyan, she privately plotted to seize the family fortune, and he unexpectedly heard her thoughts.

• Song Yutang slapped Chen Ruyin and Jiang Qingyu after they tried to punish the new bride and insulted Jiang Guoqiang.
• Song Yutang exposed Chen Ruyin’s uncertain status in the family and challenged Old Master Jiang for letting her order his son and daughter-in-law around.
• Old Master Jiang canceled the punishment, moved Chen Ruyin and Jiang Qingyu aside, and accepted tea from Song Yutang, giving her a heavy red envelope.
• Song Yutang served tea to Jiang Guoqiang and Li Xiulan, officially joining the Jiang family, and they gave her money for caring for Jiang Muyan.
• Alone with the unconscious Jiang Muyan, Song Yutang imagined eliminating Jiang Qingyu’s family and taking the Jiang fortune, while Jiang Muyan heard her thoughts.

Song Yutang tried to consummate her marriage to the comatose Jiang Muyan, but his body failed to respond and she left him naked while she slept. Jiang Muyan discovered he could hear her thoughts, while Song Yutang woke from painful memories determined to pursue wealth rather than love.

• Song Yutang inspected Jiang Muyan and attempted to have sex with him, but his physical response faded, so she gave up and went to shower.
• Jiang Muyan realized he could hear Song Yutang's thoughts and wondered if he had gained the ability to read minds.
• Song Yutang fell asleep on the sofa, leaving Jiang Muyan naked and uncovered on the bed.
• Song Yutang dreamed of her mother's suffering in both her past and present lives, then woke resolved to seek wealth and power instead of love.
• Li Xiulan called Song Yutang to dinner, and Song Yutang covered Jiang Muyan with a blanket before leaving the room.

At the Jiang family reunion banquet, Jiang Shiya and the others used Wen Jingyan’s bowl of soup to shame Jiang Guoqiang’s family. Song Yutang saw through their scheme and ended the scene by slapping Jiang Shiya.

• Jiang Guoqiang served Song Yutang homemade chicken soup, and Chen Ruyin disparaged it until Wen Jingyan praised it and asked for a bowl.
• Jiang Shiya pretended to be hurt by Wen Jingyan’s actions and threatened to die, prompting Jiang Sinian, Jiang Qingyu, and Chen Ruyin to blame Wen Jingyan and Jiang Guoqiang’s family.
• Jiang Boyan defended his parents, but Jiang Shiya fell to the floor and accused him of hitting her, drawing more scolding from Jiang Qingyu’s family.
• Song Yutang realized Jiang Shiya and the others were deliberately targeting Jiang Guoqiang’s family and asked Old Master Jiang what he thought.
• Old Master Jiang urged Jiang Guoqiang and Li Xiulan to accommodate Jiang Shiya, and Song Yutang walked over and slapped Jiang Shiya.

Song Yutang took charge of the Jiang family dinner, silencing Jiang Shiya and rebuking the household for its favoritism and disorder. Old Master Jiang let her actions stand, then asked her to come with him after dinner.

• Song Yutang slapped Jiang Shiya and Jiang Sinian for disrupting dinner and accusing the eldest branch of mistreating Jiang Shiya.
• Song Yutang called Jiang Shiya mentally ill and urged the family to send her to a psychiatric hospital, forcing Jiang Shiya to fall silent and eat.
• Song Yutang rebuked Chen Ruyin as an outsider and ordered Butler Wang to remove her place setting, prompting Chen Ruyin to leave in tears.
• Song Yutang confronted Old Master Jiang over favoritism and disorder in the family, and he told Jiang Shiya to stop making a scene and ordered everyone to eat.
• After dinner, Old Master Jiang stood up and asked Song Yutang to come with him.

Song Yutang secured the old Jiang family's patriarch’s approval to act as its mistress of the household and turned him against marrying Chen Ruyin. Back in her room, she tried to conceive a child with the supposedly vegetative Jiang Muyan, whose body reacted and whose eyelids began to flutter.

• Song Yutang argued that the Jiang family needed proper household leadership, and the patriarch offered her the inherited jade bangle if she proved herself.
• Song Yutang warned the patriarch that an adopted heir lacked the blood ties needed to preserve his legacy, then left him to reconsider his relationship with Chen Ruyin.
• Chen Ruyin urged the patriarch to marry her, but he refused and decided to see what Song Yutang could accomplish as mistress of the household.
• Song Yutang examined Jiang Muyan and resolved to have a child to secure her place in the family.
• Jiang Muyan's body reacted when Song Yutang touched him, and after she began having sex with him, his eyelids fluttered as if he might wake.

Song Yutang tried to make her comatose husband Jiang Muyan father a child, then tricked an online scammer into sending her money while searching for ways to consummate their marriage. The chapter ended with her considering how to improve Jiang Muyan’s virility, leaving him alarmed that she might force questionable medicine down his throat.

• Song Yutang tried repeatedly to make a baby with Jiang Muyan, but his brief response vanished, and she blamed herself for the failure.
• Song Yutang searched online for a way to make a man in a vegetative state father a child and contacted Perfected Zhang, who advertised Rejuvenation Pills.
• Song Yutang pretended to be a superstitious village woman, persuaded Perfected Zhang to send her a red packet, then blocked and deleted him.
• Song Yutang searched for marriage-consummation tutorials, but pop-up ads and a video’s commercials led her to consider kidney tonic tablets for Jiang Muyan.
• Song Yutang abandoned the kidney tonic tablets after learning they required prolonged use, while Jiang Muyan worried she would try some other dubious medicine.

Song Yutang studied an instructional video while comparing the men on-screen to the vegetative Jiang Muyan and touching him, while he struggled to wake up. After the video ended, she returned from the bathroom intending to fulfill her duties as his wife, leaving Jiang Muyan in dread.

• Song Yutang abandoned her search for a potent folk remedy after reading reviews about its harmful effects.
• Song Yutang watched an explicit video to learn about conceiving and examined Jiang Muyan as she compared him to the men on-screen.
• Jiang Muyan desperately tried to wake himself, and his eyelids trembled as his fingers curled slightly, but Song Yutang did not notice.
• Song Yutang finished watching the video and went to the bathroom, then returned, thinking she should serve Jiang Muyan as his wife.

Song Yutang cared for her vegetative husband, Jiang Muyan, and began settling into life with his family while he quietly reconsidered his view of her. The peaceful morning ended when a spiteful voice criticized her for sleeping late on her first day as a bride.

• Song Yutang cleaned and changed Jiang Muyan, trimmed his nails, and promised to care for him and investigate the accident that left him incapacitated.
• Jiang Muyan listened as Song Yutang fell asleep beside him and began to think she might be more interesting and considerate than he had assumed.
• Song Yutang woke late and worried she had failed to follow the custom of serving tea to her in-laws, but Li Xiulan brought her breakfast and urged her to rest.
• Song Yutang admitted she was unfamiliar with Western food, and Li Xiulan replaced it with Chinese dishes that she enjoyed.
• The family doctor confirmed Song Yutang was merely overexerted, and Li Xiulan told her not to worry about serving tea.
• A spiteful voice outside the room criticized Song Yutang for sleeping late on her first day of marriage.

Song Yutang defended Li Xiulan from Wu Caixia’s insults, then searched for the history of Lady Song, the Jing dynasty’s crown princess. She learned that the historical figure had died on the night her young son became emperor and resolved to live well in the present.

• Li Xiulan defended Song Yutang after Wu Caixia mocked her for sleeping late and accused her of disrupting the household.
• Song Yutang slapped Wu Caixia, asserted her family’s seniority, and threatened to have Wu Caixia sold off if she defied her again.
• Wu Caixia stormed away, and Li Xiulan hurried off to prepare Song Yutang more food.
• Jiang Muyan overheard the argument and wondered whether Song Yutang’s old-fashioned talk about family rank reflected her true nature.
• Song Yutang searched online for Lady Song’s history and found that the crown princess had died on the night her son ascended the throne.

Song Yutang enjoyed Jiang Guoqiang and Li Xiulan’s cooking and decided she was willing to remain part of their family. At lunch, she rebuked Chen Ruyin and her allies for their contempt toward Chinese food and had them sent away from the main table, leaving Old Master Jiang subdued and the family of three eating together.

• Jiang Guoqiang served Song Yutang spicy dry-pot lobster, and she praised the meal while thanking him and Li Xiulan for their care.
• Song Yutang reflected that her parents-in-law cherished her and that she was willing to stay in the Jiang Family.
• Chen Ruyin, Wu Caixia, and Jiang Shiya disparaged the family’s Chinese food and praised Western meals, prompting Song Yutang to scold them for disrespecting the family’s traditions.
• Song Yutang ordered Butler Wang to send Chen Ruyin, Wu Caixia, and Jiang Shiya to Dining Room Eight, and Old Master Jiang agreed that Jiang Shiya needed to learn manners.
• Jiang Guoqiang served Song Yutang pea shoots, and they excitedly discussed cooking hot pot together as Old Master Jiang sat apart and tried to join their conversation.

Song Yutang discovered that the Jiang family’s servants were making her in-laws do their work and stood up for them. She ordered Butler Wang to discipline the staff and fired Auntie Chen, leaving the kitchen stunned.

• At dinner, the old man left feeling excluded as Song Yutang and Jiang Guoqiang shared a warm moment.
• Song Yutang followed Jiang Guoqiang and Li Xiulan into the kitchen and found them cleaning and cooking while the servants lounged around.
• Song Yutang told her in-laws they should not have to do the servants’ chores, but the servants mocked them as freeloaders.
• Song Yutang summoned Butler Wang and warned him to ensure the servants respected the family and their duties.
• When Auntie Chen insulted Song Yutang, Song Yutang fired her and ordered her to leave immediately.

Song Yutang asserted her authority in the Jiang household by firing servants who bullied Jiang Guoqiang and Li Xiulan, then recruited Butler Wang to help her raise money by appealing to his troubles and offering him a commission. Jiang Muyan recognized her calculated approach and began to suspect that her sudden change in temperament concealed something.

• Song Yutang ordered Butler Wang to fire Auntie Chen and three other servants for mistreating Jiang Guoqiang and Li Xiulan.
• Song Yutang reassured Jiang Guoqiang and Li Xiulan that they deserved respect and had a rightful place in the Jiang family.
• While treating Li Xiulan's burn, Song Yutang learned about Butler Wang's financial and family burdens, including his daughter's mental illness.
• Song Yutang warned Butler Wang that rumors about hereditary mental illness could threaten his position, then gave him a check and bank card to handle and antiques and a painting to sell for a commission.
• Butler Wang agreed to help Song Yutang, while Jiang Muyan admired her tactics and wondered why she seemed so different from the timid country girl described in the earlier investigation.

Song Yutang used suggestive audio in hopes of stimulating Jiang Muyan, then left for her customary third-day visit to her maiden home. Trapped listening to the recordings all day, Jiang Muyan fought to awaken and finally opened his eyes a sliver.

• Song Yutang silenced Jiang Sinian and Jiang Qingyu at dinner, and Old Master Jiang ordered them to join the others in the side dining room if they objected.
• Song Yutang played suggestive videos through earbuds placed in Jiang Muyan’s ears, while she read law and thought about securing the Song Family’s assets.
• Li Xiulan reminded Song Yutang that it was time for her return visit to her maiden home, and Song Yutang left without taking her phone.
• The family medical team found Jiang Muyan’s earbuds and left his phone charging, mistakenly assuming Song Yutang had provided music or audiobooks to aid his recovery.
• After enduring the sounds all day, Jiang Muyan focused all his will on waking up and slowly opened his eyes a sliver.

Song Yutang prepared to return to the Song Family with Jiang Guoqiang and Li Xiulan, who gave her a precious jade set and offered their support. At the Song Family villa, her relatives dismissed her and ordered her to kneel outside the gate for three hours before she could enter.

• Li Xiulan gave Song Yutang her bridal jade jewelry and said she and Jiang Guoqiang would accompany her to support her.
• Butler Wang prepared suitable return-visit gifts, and Song Yutang thanked him for his consideration.
• On the drive, Song Yutang reassured Li Xiulan and applied lipstick for her.
• At the Song Family villa, Sun Meifang, Song Mingzhe, Song Ruowei, and Father Song disparaged Song Yutang and assumed she had come to ask for money.
• After learning the Jiang Family convoy had arrived, Father Song ordered Butler Wang to make Song Yutang kneel outside the gate for three hours before entering.

Song Yutang returned to the Song Family with Jiang Guoqiang and Li Xiulan, where her father had made her kneel outside the gate. After forcing her way in and punishing Sun Meifang and her children for insulting her in-laws, she prepared to make them follow the old rules and pay their respects.

• Song Yutang ordered Butler Wang to ram down the Song Family gates after her father refused to let her and her in-laws enter.
• Song Yutang walked into the Song Family residence with Jiang Guoqiang, Li Xiulan, Butler Wang, and the bodyguards, stopping her father from attacking her.
• Sun Meifang insulted Jiang Guoqiang and Li Xiulan, so Song Yutang slapped her and ordered a bodyguard to slap Song Ruowei.
• Song Yutang ordered the bodyguards to beat Song Mingzhe after he charged at her, and Jiang Guoqiang and Li Xiulan challenged her father's double standards.
• Song Yutang led her in-laws inside, made Sun Meifang and her children stand, and ordered them to pay their respects in order of seniority.

Song Yutang humiliated Sun Meifang and her children during her homecoming visit, while Jiang Muyan secretly secured his room and contacted Zhao Chuan after waking from his coma. Jiang Muyan learned that his second uncle likely arranged the crash and an attempt to kill Zhao Chuan, then began planning to counter the Jiang family as an alarm sounded near his room.

• Song Yutang rebuked Sun Meifang, Song Mingzhe, and Song Yuxin for their status and had Butler Wang give them cheap gifts.
• Song Yutang ordered Sun Meifang and her children to serve the Jiang family elders and herself, and Father Song made them comply.
• Jiang Muyan searched his room for surveillance, accessed the estate's security feeds, and called Zhao Chuan using a phone he checked for tapping.
• Zhao Chuan told Jiang Muyan that the truck driver had been paid and that someone had tried to poison him with anesthetic at the hospital.
• Jiang Muyan and Zhao Chuan discussed Jiang Qingyu's suspected schemes, the concealed evidence, and Hengxing Technology's progress.
• An urgent alarm sounded while Jiang Muyan was speaking with Zhao Chuan.

Jiang Muyan continued pretending to be in a vegetative state while secretly investigating Jiang Qingyu, but Song Yutang’s sponge bath and massage left him struggling to hide his reactions. After finding obscene content on her phone, Song Yutang wondered whether he could hear and feel things.

• Jiang Muyan told Zhao Chuan to investigate the suspicious car accident involving his third uncle and track the overseas accounts before pretending to be unconscious again.
• Song Yutang returned home and changed clothes while Jiang Muyan secretly opened his eyes and saw her changing, causing his heart monitor to alarm.
• Song Yutang gave Jiang Muyan a sponge bath and massage while he stayed still, and he considered whether she might become an ally before hearing her thoughts about getting pregnant and claiming the family wealth.
• Song Yutang noticed Jiang Muyan’s physical reaction during the massage, while Jiang Muyan panicked and remembered her murderous thoughts about men.
• Song Yutang found obscene content on her phone, noticed Jiang Muyan still wore his earbuds, and wondered whether he could hear and feel things.

Song Yutang paused her efforts to conceive during her safe period and began studying the modern world, while Jiang Muyan grew more accepting of their marriage. After Butler Wang reported that her dowry assets had been sold or sent to auction, Song Yutang was summoned downstairs because the eldest young lady had returned.

• Jiang Muyan watched Song Yutang read and heard her plan to have a child so she could gain leverage over the Song Family.
• Song Yutang calculated that she was in her safe period and went to sleep without trying to conceive; Jiang Muyan later ended up sharing the blankets with her when she clung to him in her sleep.
• Jiang Muyan adjusted to his situation, and Song Yutang spent her free time studying modern subjects in a study she had set up.
• Butler Wang gave Song Yutang a bank card containing 13.8 million yuan and reported that her antiques and paintings, valued at about eight million, had been sent to auction.
• Song Yutang agreed to attend the auction next month, then a servant told her that the eldest young lady had returned and Madam wanted her downstairs.