Dressed as a fat girl from a bankrupt family in the Tang Dynasty, my fiancé broke off the engagement the day my creditors blocked the door.
"It's bad luck to marry a fat woman!" He threw down the divorce note and walked away.
I took out the modern accounting certificate in my sleeve and smiled: I just used the dowry as start-up capital.
Kaibuzhuang improved corsets, and the ladies of Chang'an rushed to buy them; a logistics network was built directly to Persia, and caravans carried silk to crush the morning dew.
Five years later, I became the richest man in Chang'an. At the palace banquet, the man who broke off the engagement knelt down and begged to get back together.
Tea King Pei Yan walked out from behind the screen. He waved our marriage certificates and raised his eyebrows: "Madam, it's time to go home and count the 100,000 gold earned today."
Later business history recorded: "Pei Shen was in charge of half of the city's wealth, and her husband spent all his wealth just to build her the largest accounting room in history - because she said the sound of the abacus was the most pleasant to listen to.
