[Cool, Money-Loving County Lady x Black-Bellied Power Minister]
After transmigrating, Jiang Mei became a "troublesome young lady" in a remote county: she rode around showing off and was notorious for refusing marriage proposals. Faced with the honest, simple-minded live-in son-in-law her father tried to foist on her, she flipped the table. "Buying a man? I'll pick one myself!"
At the execution platform in the marketplace, Xiao Yuan, the son of a disgraced official, stood proud against the wind. His phoenix eyes were stained with blood, and though his bearing was refined and noble, he had become a pawn discarded in a power struggle.
"Ransom me, and I'll give you half the realm." He mouthed the words soundlessly, schemes roiling in his eyes.
Jiang Mei raised an eyebrow and smiled, tossing a silver coin to the ground. "I want this one."
From then on, the county magistrate's residence became a chessboard for their schemes.
She used her modern business savvy to make bamboo salt and open up trade routes, while he deployed the hidden pieces of the previous dynasty and wove a web, calculating the hearts of all around him.
The night the live-in son-in-law's marriage contract was stamped with a red seal, Xiao Yuan caught her hand as she moved a chess piece. "Since my wife wants to turn the world upside down, then I, your husband, will send you up to the highest heavens."
"Who says a live-in son-in-law can't rule the realm? I insist on wearing that golden crown, and you will place it on my head yourself."
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---The peace and prosperity you want is a marriage contract we will write together.
A story of a powerful heroine winning in both love and career, full of schemes and partners fighting side by side from beginning to end.
