A Beggar from the Start: Defying Fate and Building a Business Empire

Ye Feng, a double-degree academic prodigy, transmigrates into a beggar starving on the streets. While going hungry, he furiously tinkers with black technology! He uses his chemistry knowledge to refine fine salt and make gunpowder to crush local tyrants, then uses financial tricks to get rich without spending a cent!

A fallen young lady manages his accounts, a swordswoman heiress guards his estate, a noblewoman from the imperial family secretly lends her support, a kindhearted girl revolutionizes production, and a beautiful widow offers her shop and joins forces with him! From a beggars' den to a business empire, the five heroines help him seize control of the Sheng Dynasty's economic lifeline. "A prince? A tycoon? Under my joint-stock company, they're all just employees!"