[Marriage first, love later + household intrigue + putting scoundrels in their place + sweet romance + devoted couple + she refuses to be a marquis’s wife]
[A money-making, wealth-building female tycoon x a supposedly lazy, human-shaped honeycomb briquette of a chief councilor]
Song Qingran, the legitimate eldest daughter of the Earl of Pingnan’s household, was nothing but a vulgar country girl reeking of money in the eyes of the capital’s noblewomen. Yet she had the fiancé all those noblewomen envied: the heir to the Marquis of Jingbei.
Everyone praised her for her good fortune.
Song Qingran: A fiancé who plans to have her “die of illness” after she marries into the marquis’s household, then bring her stepsister in to take her place? And I’m supposed to become the future mistress of a marquis’s household? Would you like to have this good fortune instead? Because I certainly don’t.
In a prophetic dream before returning to the capital, she learned that this pair of shameless lovers would cause her death. How could she possibly marry him now?
She set up her rotten fiancé and stepsister and caught them in the act in front of everyone, then broke off the engagement without hesitation.
This family of awful people still wouldn’t give up. They forced her to marry a dying man to bring him good luck.
Wait, wasn’t Shen Jue, the sickly man who needed a lucky marriage, the future chief councilor? Song Qingran immediately decided to marry him. Once Shen Jue recovered, she would make her whole family furious.
She agreed to the lucky marriage, thinking she was securing a powerful backer who could earn her a noble title and protect her.
But she soon discovered that her husband, currently just a low-ranking Hanlin Academy scholar, was actually a couch potato.
It was better to rely on herself than on anyone else, so Song Qingran rolled up her sleeves and got to work.
“Wife, I’ve earned you a title!”
When Shen Jue, who had been playing the fool while hiding his true abilities, finally rose from his lazy ways to become chief councilor, he happily presented Song Qingran with her noblewoman’s crown.
But Song Qingran, the biggest backer of the Imperial Arms Bureau and the richest person in the Great Xuan dynasty, said, “A noblewoman’s crown?”
“I already have one of my own.”
Shen Jue: ...
Fine. There was no escaping his reputation as a kept man.
“Wife! Please keep me!”
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It's nice to watch. I feel that today's era is better. At least you can make your own decisions on most marriage matters.
Wuhu, I'm here to read the new book!
The story is good, but the ending is very hasty. Also worth a look. The male protagonist only appears in the middle and later chapters. So there isn't much interaction between men and women. Don't rush the ending. There are many revelations about how the male protagonist became the capital without describing it. The fate of the heroine's stepmother and the three others did not make people very happy either.
It looks good, but it ends in such a rush [what]