The Wealthy Wife in the Palm of His Hand

Wen Xian, the only daughter of Jiangnan’s richest man, has spent seventeen years since being reborn in the womb planning her future. Her abacus beads click faster than anyone’s: make money, take male favorites, and never marry. That’s the perfect life.

Unfortunately, a childhood betrothal binds her to Shen Jue, a low-ranking ninth-grade official. He is warm on the outside and fierce within, with an eight-pack under his clothes and a keen mind capable of solving any case under heaven.

She offers him five hundred taels to call off the engagement. Instead, he seals the marriage contract: “If you think I’m too poor for you, then I’ll earn enough to deserve you.”

Salt boats impounded, an embroidery workshop drenched in blood, a bandit stronghold demanding lives, exam fraud... She calculates profits while he probes hearts; she wants freedom, while he seeks an untarnished name.

Later, in the imperial palace, he strikes the grievance drum to protect her and takes thirty strokes of the cane. She loses all her capital for his sake. At last, his vow, “The rule of the Shen family is that I may give up my office, but I will never take another wife,” makes her abacus come up short and her heart surrender.

Ten thousand taels in copper coins are no match for one sweet-talking remark from her husband.

From ninth grade to third, he rises step by step, all so he can stand beside her and look over the account books together.

This is a wealthy wife and an official flirting and bickering with each other, and a tale of silver notes and the law joining forces to make legends:

“Wen Xian, I’ll put myself on credit to you. Let the interest compound, and I’ll repay you for the rest of my life. How about it?”