# After a plane crash on a business trip, Du Weiwei inexplicably transmigrates into a book, the Dream of the Red Chamber, and becomes Jia Tanchun, a concubine-born daughter of the Jia family! She is the unlucky Tanchun who was sent to marry the daughter of Prince Nan'an in the Kingdom of Java! Even more astonishingly, her best friend transmigrates into the book too, becoming the sorceress Lin Daiyu. In this life, she swears to escape the marriage and save the Jia family with her friend.
# A concubine-born daughter needs money in her pocket to stand tall. Using her modern knowledge of beauty products and medicine, she works relentlessly to make money, opening a rouge shop and a clinic to help the sick. Once she has saved enough, she seizes the opportunity when Jia Yuanchun visits her family and joins forces with the servants to bring down Wang Xifeng, gaining control of the household early. Immersed in reforming the Jia family’s affairs, she roots out parasites and clears away old abuses. Her elder brother Jia Baoyu and younger brother Jia Huan embark on the path of official examinations, earning places at court. For a time, the Jia family flourishes once more.
# She keeps close ties with the military Feng family and Prince Zhongshun’s household, and she and Feng Ziying, the son of a military family, fall in love. But Feng Ziying’s father, Feng Tang, launches a rebellion, and the entire family meets a tragic end.
# Skilled at navigating social circles, she believes she has carefully preserved her family’s position. Just as she is about to complete her System mission and return to the modern world, however, she discovers that the emperor has never trusted the Jia family’s loyalty. A century after helping to found the dynasty, the family still faces the fate of being replaced when a new emperor takes the throne. At this critical moment, what path should the Jia family take?
# The arrival of Liu Xianglian brings a whole new force. Through their pawnshop and escort agency businesses, Tanchun builds an information network for political and commercial dealings in Jinling, and learns to forge alliances and resist opposition among the great clans. After all she has been through, she finally understands: feudal aristocrats must adapt in time, stop relying on imperial power, and take another path in the world of the jianghu. Remembering her adventures there with Liu Xianglian, she gives up Feng Ziying, the ideal match she once had.
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