Get Rich, and Men Will Come Running

In her previous life, Ji Yunzhuang was the most free-spirited heiress in Yunzhou. When her family went bankrupt, she fell from the clouds into the dirt. Carrying a marriage contract made by their fathers, she married Xiao Yuanjin, heir to the Duke of Chen's mansion. Xiao Yuanjin was handsome, aloof, and noble, the dream husband of countless young women. For five years after their wedding, Ji Yunzhuang endured her mother-in-law's cruelty and the servants' abuse, just to keep a lonely lamp burning through the long nights as she waited for him. In the end, all she got was a divorce letter and a banknote. She was paid off and sent far away to make room for another woman to become the heir's wife. Only then did she understand that Xiao Yuanjin had never loved her. His grand wedding procession had been nothing but an act. Reborn, she vowed to live for herself! The swindler who drove her family to bankruptcy? Dead. The hooligan who abused her maid? Crippled. That ill-fated, unlucky marriage contract? Broken. This time, Ji Yunzhuang took over the family business, opened a beauty store, sold jewelry, and styled the noblewomen of the realm, becoming the undisputed trendsetter of ancient fashion. As for men... Get rich, and men will come. Become wealthy beyond belief, and you'll have men galore. Yet the man who had been so cold-hearted in her previous life held her tightly around the waist from behind after she'd had a little too much to drink, his voice low and hoarse. "Jiaojiao... I regret it." Xiao Yuanjin had known for a long time that the path he had chosen was a dark road with no way back. But at the end of bloodshed and ambition, he realized that all he truly wanted was the lonely lamp silently waiting for him on a night of howling wind and snow.