Help! The Cold, Ascetic Heir Has Fallen for Me

From the start, all they have is a rickety, run-down restaurant. Their short, stout father is the proprietor, and their burly mother is the chef.

Their four grown-up daughters are too fierce, lazy, greedy, or foolish to find husbands.

Then there's Bai Jiao. She's amazing: gluttonous, lazy, greedy, foolish, and fierce. She's got every vice in the book.

The family's youngest son has been driven to villainy by them all.

Bai Jiao, who transmigrated from the apocalypse, says this is nothing. Business is her specialty, because she has a Business System and there's no customer or deal she can't win over.

A month later, the Bai family's “Aromatic Home” in Su County has taken the whole city by storm. The eldest and second eldest sisters marry successfully, and Magistrate Xuanyuan nods in approval at Miss Bai's achievements.

A year later, Bai's Department Store sweeps the prefectural city and stands shoulder to shoulder with the famous Ningbo merchants, breaking the old saying that no market can thrive without Ningbo traders. The third and fourth sisters are carried off in grand sedan chairs, the youngest son passes the county-level examination, and Prefect Xuanyuan nods approvingly: Miss Bai really is capable.

Another year on, Bai's Trading Company takes on the Chaozhou merchants. With a million taels of silver, they build ironclad warships to fight a world-class pirate fleet, sail across the seas, and bring back technologies from many foreign countries. They open spinning mills, cotton mills, dye works, glass factories...

The heir to Prince Jin can finally hold back no longer. “Miss Bai, in recognition of your substantial tax contributions to the Great Yuan Dynasty, how about rewarding you with the title of Crown Princess?”

Bai Jiao's bright eyes dart about, and her gaze shimmers with flirtatious light. “I hear you keep yourself chaste and stay away from women. Isn't this just repaying kindness with betrayal?”

Xuanyuan Muxi pins her against the wall. His clear, cool voice is intoxicating. “Let me prove that your claim about my chastity is completely unfounded...”

Bai Jiao blushes, her heart racing as she pants for breath. She immediately changes her tune. “G-given that Heir Xuanyuan is handsome and exceptional, and won't take concubines or keep a secondary wife, I-I'll accept the title.”

Otherwise, she fears he'll take her right here and now!