Gu Nan Xi dies from overwork and wakes up inside a book after binding a “Kind Mother System,” only to find she’s now the matron of a marquis’s household fated to be executed to the last person.
Since dying sooner or later makes no difference, she decides to lie flat and enjoy what time she has left. Her eldest son, once a hesitant romantic doomed to ruin himself for love, suddenly becomes obsessed with studying and follows her around demanding she sign his practice exams. Her sickly second son, originally destined to run off into the martial world and get everyone dragged down with him, gets pulled into sunbathing, reading wuxia, and accidentally chasing the kind of “real-life opportunities” that build true skill. Her youngest daughter, who was supposed to scheme her way toward becoming empress and end up imprisoned, gets handed the household keys and a strategy book—because if she can’t manage a home, she has no business managing a country.
The system keeps trying to force Gu Nan Xi into saintly motherhood, but her deadpan laziness, blunt advice, and refusal to overextend somehow knock her children off their doomed tracks. The marquis’s estate descends into chaotic self-improvement, and the family’s tragic ending quietly collapses: the eldest rises to become the youngest Grand Secretary, the second becomes a border general, and the youngest becomes a famed virtuous empress—all because their mother stubbornly refused to struggle the way the plot expected.