I Run a Charity in Ancient Times

[Mutual aid among the underclass + women growing stronger + a gradual journey of growth]

[Pure romance and warmth + ensemble cast + fictional setting]

[Genius young schemer of a younger brother + hot-tempered merchant older sister]

She accidentally transmigrates to an unfamiliar dynasty that never existed.

The original owner is the beautiful but meek daughter of a minor official, easily bullied.

The only person she can trust is a young maid by her side.

She cannot read the writing, learn embroidery, or figure out the deadly battles in the inner household.

On her wedding night, she even drinks nuptial wine laced with crane's crown poison.

Though Fang Zhiyi desperately tries to keep a low profile and injures her own wrist to fake severed tendons,

she still cannot escape being cast off and driven from the Duke's mansion.

*

She flees with Xinglan to a small village far from the capital, where they struggle to survive.

She thinks she will spend the rest of her life in poverty,

but an influential patron sees the surrounding forests as the perfect place to build a hunting lodge,

giving Fang Zhiyi an unexpected source of startup capital.

Thus begins her life of building a business and making a fortune in ancient times.

*

A quick-witted boy who helps the two of them settle in the village.

A poor mother and daughter they find on a freezing winter night.

A beautiful young woman driven from home by her stepfather.

A young lady from a prominent family who has suffered from household infighting.

And a genius boy they happen to meet on the street.

As well as his mother, sister, steward...

The warmth of the human heart can drive away the cold of three winters.

When Fang Zhiyi returns to the capital,

she beats her ex-husband's whole family to a pulp and severs ties with her heartless birth family.

She has the people under her charge beat the drum of grievances and berates the officials outside the palace gates.

Then she stops a decorated general in the street and makes it clear they will be enemies to the death.

Step by step, Fang Zhiyi brings herself and Xinglan to the position of titled ladies.

At last, everyone finds happiness and peace.

*

[The chapters are long and there are many of them. Please bear with us.]