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by john1208·Translated by Novel AI Studio
The 1979 Mudanport underworld is tearing itself apart, but Kuo Tzilan just wants to eat pork buns and sleep for twelve hours. Dragged to a chaotic syndicate funeral by her terrifying but doting husband - who is convinced she possesses a dangerously fragile constitution and forbids her from working - Tzilan fiercely refuses to participate in the gang war. Told in alternating third-person perspectives, the story follows Tzilan and Liao Bixue, an ambitious transmigrator exhausting herself to monopolize the booming shipping industry. While Bixue works twenty-hour days, Tzilan stays in bed, furiously sketching random scribbles to pass the time. When an eccentric avant-garde artist exhibits Tzilan's "doodles," Bixue realizes they are perfect blueprints of their enemies' hidden vaults. As assassins repeatedly interrupt Tzilan's naps - prompting her to violently dispatch them before her husband returns - the rival women form an unlikely alliance. But as the bodies pile up, a shocking truth emerges: Tzilan's past self intentionally wiped her own memory and orchestrated this entire war just to secure a peaceful retirement. Can Tzilan protect her fragile facade and her newfound ally without missing her afternoon nap?