During the Tiansheng period of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the world was prosperous and prosperous on the surface, but in reality, the imperial power and aristocratic families competed for promotion channels, the rise of merchants impacted the traditional hierarchy, and the influence of Jianghu infiltrated the economy. Su Mingtang, the legitimate daughter of Suji Silk Village in Yangzhou, jumped into the Qinhuai River out of hatred because she believed in the marriage between aristocratic families in her previous life, causing Suji to be annexed. Reborn in this life, she takes the memories of her past life and modern business thinking and vows to build a business empire.
At the Flower Goddess Festival, Su Mingtang disguised his identity and exposed the fake silks of the Cui family in public, burying his hatred with the Cui family of the Qingliu family. She discovered that the truth about her father's death involved the princeling's embezzlement of military pay, so she cooperated with Xiao Jingheng, the leader of the secret guard of the third prince pretending to be a businessman, to fight against the salt merchants, and founded the "Su Ji Pawn Shop" to launch an inclusive financial model.
After that, Su Mingtang embarked on a journey of business battles, power intrigues, emotional entanglements, and the righteousness of family and country. She fought against the monopoly of Yangzhou salt merchants and developed the Maritime Silk Road; she revealed that the prince colluded with the countries in the Western Regions to smuggle arms and that the three princes made money through water transportation reforms; she and the male protagonist went from profit cooperation to falling in love and killing each other, and together they cracked the secrets of the royal family twenty years ago. During this period, she went through many hardships such as being forced into a marriage and feigning death to escape, being asked by the leader of the Shadow Pavilion for a secret road map, discovering that she was of the bloodline of a princess from the previous dynasty, and the male protagonist being poisoned and losing his memory.
In the end, Su Mingtang united with the caravans from the Western Regions to solve the grassland plague crisis, quelled the border rebellion with business roads, replaced the old aristocratic system with a business alliance, and worked with the male protagonist to rebuild the Shadow Pavilion, becoming a behind-the-scenes guardian, and leaving his own legend in the great Zhou world.
