Genres:
Meticulous plotting + business and trade + travel between eras + restoring the Ming and overthrowing the Qing
The Eight Great Imperial Merchants + brutal warfare + smart characters + romantic tension
Premise:
The male lead doesn’t know the female lead has transmigrated, and the female lead doesn’t know the male lead has transmigrated.
Through a twist of fate, they meet amid turbulent times, and destiny binds them together.
The male lead relies on the female lead to turn goods into gold and silver, make money, support the family, and build his business.
The female lead relies on the male lead to move supplies, overthrow the Qing, restore the Ming, and advance technology!
Synopsis:
It all begins with a mysterious time-travel ring! In the first year of the Kangxi era, the Southern Ming emperor Yongli is killed by Wu Sangui at Jinchan Temple. The male lead, Wei Zi'an, unexpectedly acquires a priceless treasure and transmigrates to the scene of Emperor Yongli's execution. Entrusted by the emperor with his dying wish, Wei Zi'an takes on the mission of restoring the Southern Ming, embarking on an extraordinary journey of time-spanning business warfare and Southern Ming revival. He opens shops and establishes escort agencies, sells modern goods, cleverly rescues Ao Bai, takes on the Eight Great Imperial Merchants, wages trade and currency wars, outmaneuvers Burma's Toungoo Dynasty, recovers the Ming territories of the Three Pacifications and Six Tributes, plots to drive Wu Sangui into rebellion, and expels the Qing court, restoring the Ming empire to its former glory. In the modern world, Wei Zi'an uses his vast fortune to invest in industry with his beloved wives and concubines, revitalize technology, unify northern Myanmar, establish a Southern Ming Special Zone, and revive China! Just when everything seems settled, the two leads are astonished to discover that the true challenge is only beginning, far across the ocean...
I am the first commenter by nature, and I promise to keep updating as soon as I finish writing! On November 1st, the first overhaul: In response to a problem raised by a die-hard fan: the plot rhythm is too slow, some side plots that are not closely connected with the main plot will be cut off to speed up the advancement of the main plot;
The author writes very well.