Modern Wall Street financial analyst Lin Chuan travels back to Lin Zhao, a down-and-out scholar in the Qingzhou Prefecture of the ancient Ning Dynasty due to overtime work. Faced with the dilemma of family members occupying family property and powerful people monopolizing business, with modern financial knowledge, he started from selling homemade rouge at a street stall and gradually established a business empire covering rouge, silk, grain, transportation, and overseas trade. In the process, she develops emotional entanglements with the glamorous businessman's daughter Su Qingxue, the gentle prime minister's daughter Chu Wanning, the enchanting oiran Liu Ruoyan, and the eccentric Jianghu girl Ye Xiaotang. Through business warfare, she bullies her relatives, corrupt officials, and monopoly powerful people, and eventually becomes the "Business Sage" of the Ning Dynasty. She embraces beauties, promotes the dynasty's business legislation, and achieves a counterattack in life.
