When the Rain Stops, the Pear Blossoms Return with the Clouds

[Strong heroine + devoted couple + pure historical romance + clear-headed heroine]

Gu Jiayitang was the legitimate daughter of the Gu family. She took over the family business at thirteen, and from then on, the Gu family rose swiftly from modest wealth to become one of the richest families in the Great Xia Kingdom, blessed with prosperity and glory...

Yet behind that dazzling success lay a secret no one knew: she was not truly of the Gu bloodline. Over the decades she spent with the Gu family, she had smiled as she cut off the corrupt hands of greedy officials, personally entered refugee camps and witnessed the suffering of the common people, her heart filled with compassion, and ventured behind the high walls of grand estates, where she saw with her own eyes the extravagant excesses of the powerful and the fickleness of the world...

She once believed that in this bustling mortal world, all she wanted was to settle debts and repay kindness, keep her promises, love deeply, enjoy favorable weather, and see peace across the land. If she had all that, she would have no regrets in this life...

But life is unpredictable. She had no choice but to proceed cautiously and plot every move, all for the sake of...