From the Start, Cast Aside: I Return to My Family Home to Throw My Weight Around

Female lead: Zhao Ruoshui Male lead: Xiao Lingchuan Completed [Sharp-tongued, calculating female lead who doesn’t lose her head over love + devoted, faithful male lead who pursues her across lifetimes and finally wins her over in the modern era] The eldest daughter of the declining Duke of Ning’s household had been raised by a scheming stepmother to be lazy, gluttonous, and uneducated. She also liked borrowing money at exorbitant interest to gamble. After two years of marriage to the second son of the Marquis of Ding’an’s household, to whom she had been betrothed as a child, she finally received a letter of repudiation. Modern-day tycoon Zhao Ruoshui transmigrated into the eldest daughter’s body at the very moment she was being divorced. Faced with being cast off from the start, she smiled calmly, elegantly tore her ex-husband Xiao Lingchuan’s letter of repudiation to shreds, and scattered the pieces to the wind. Then she coolly wrote her own letter of divorce, turning the repudiation into her own decision to dump him. After divorcing Xiao Lingchuan, Zhao Ruoshui opened a pharmacy, a clothing shop, a hotpot restaurant, and a fast-food joint… Her businesses spread across the capital. At the same time, she matched wits with her stepmother, stripped her of control over the household, helped her younger siblings succeed, restored the family’s fortunes, and built a thriving life for herself. Xiao Lingchuan quietly followed Zhao Ruoshui’s transformation. Wherever her businesses went, his gaze followed. One day, he burned the letter of repudiation and the divorce agreement, then shamelessly showed up at the Duke of Ning’s residence to mooch a New Year’s Eve dinner. Calmly and cunningly, he announced to everyone, “Ruoruo and I are still husband and wife.” Zhao Ruoshui’s jaw nearly hit the floor. What was wrong with this man? How had she never heard that they were still married?