[Reborn + siheyuan courtyard + period setting + golden finger + building a fortune + feel-good novel + two strong leads + play the pig to eat the tiger + face-slapping and punishing scumbags + business warfare + abacus genius versus black-hearted schemer]
Su Jinsuan opens her eyes to find she has been reborn at the entrance to a hutong in 1980. Holding her abacus, she sneers: Auntie’s fake account books are due for an audit!
[Hutong memories unlocked] Her golden finger activates, revealing every plot hatched over the next three days:
Auntie plans to smuggle the account books tonight? Open the cellar’s hidden door before the storm hits!
The black-hearted landlord will try to seize the family home tomorrow? Slip the deed into the neighborhood office archives ahead of time!
Her sickly adopted sister plans to smear her the day after? Turn the tables and shove her into a pickle vat so she can put on a show of suffering!
But then there’s that quack who keeps showing up and messing things up for her. He’s got her abacus beads flying off the rails
“Doctor Jin, are those acupuncture needles you’re using to treat patients stuck into my account book?”
“Miss Su, the hand you use to work your abacus is touching my weak spot.”
The smooth-talking charlatan Jin Wuji sees through her schemes every time. Then one day, she sees with her own eyes this libertine rallying the forces of all Eight Great Hutongs with a coded message.
Then he takes a knife meant for her from her aunt, and a jade abacus passed down in the Su family for a hundred years falls from his bloodstained white shirt.
Then he grips her waist and pins her against a faded vermilion door: “Su Jinsuan, do you really not recognize the beggar your father threw out of the money house all those years ago?”
When a thunderclap cracks through the hutong cultural festival, she foresees the cruelest truth
The man who always says, “You’ve got some nerve,” is the heir to the Su family’s century-old nemesis!
And in the hutong community they protect together lies a shocking secret that could upend the business world of Beijing...
Fiery, money-loving shopkeeper × ruthless, unhinged strategist
In this love story that began with schemes, who will be the last one standing?
