A Splendid Business Career

Modern investment consultant Ruan Zhiwei works overtime late into the night. On her way home, she gets into a car accident. When she wakes, she discovers she has transmigrated to the ancient Ruan household as an unloved concubine-born daughter. Through her maid, Chuntao, she learns about her new circumstances: her birth mother died early, her stepmother is harsh, and she is about to be married off as a widowed official's second wife.

- Ruan Zhiwei draws on her modern business knowledge to analyze the household's finances. She discovers flaws in its management and secretly makes a note of them, planning to use them as leverage.

- Her stepmother summons her and announces that she intends to marry her to the Vice Minister of Rites as his second wife. Ruan Zhiwei appears to comply, but is determined to change her fate,