Golden Hairpin, Changed Bones: Baochai Reborn

The perfect match of gold and jade came to naught. Xue Baochai died with regrets, only to open her eyes again in the body of her dissolute older brother, Xue Pan! On one side was her own flesh-and-blood brother, wearing her face and doing nothing but causing trouble. On the other was the Xue family’s declining business empire, in urgent need of saving. Reborn in the twenty-seventh year of Jiajing, she had the trump card of a man’s identity. She cast off the constraints of the inner chambers and, under the name Xue Pan, put the family shops in order, outsmarted unscrupulous merchants, and turned the tide. Why had the Xue family’s eldest son, once mocked by everyone, suddenly become a rising star at court? What kind of outrageous soul lay within the body of a refined young lady? With their lives turned upside down and begun anew, could Xue Baochai change the fate of the declining Xue family and carve out a path to a peak utterly unlike the one she had known before? Content warning: Baochai and Daiyu pairing; the Jia family will be criticized. This book focuses on Baochai’s career.