Forced to Farm and Do Business to Support My Frail Husband

A frail, cool scholar × a fiery, beautiful village girl Wen Ran and Gu Yanzhi were betrothed as infants. The Wen family stayed behind to farm in Qingxi Town, while the head of the Gu family at the time went to the capital for work, separating the two families. Years later, in the nineteenth year of Tian Ning, when the two were seventeen, Gu Yanzhi's father passed away. With no relatives to turn to, Gu Yanzhi had no choice but to seek refuge with the Wen family. Only one of the sisters, Wen Ran and Wen Xi, could marry him, so Wen Xi hurriedly married someone else, leaving Wen Ran to wed him against her will. After the wedding, however, she discovered that the bookish scholar had a romantic side. The two went from feeling nothing for each other to being utterly devoted, and after weathering the twists and turns of court politics, Gu Yanzhi rose to the highest ranks of the court. As Wen Ran accompanied him through promotions and demotions, she spotted business opportunities and became the richest woman in the land.