[Supporting heroine's comeback | Wealth across the worlds | System | Powerful official pursues his wife | Transmigration across multiple lifetimes]
After transmigrating as Xue Baochan, an illegitimate daughter of the Xue family in Dream of the Red Chamber, she finds her stepmother about to marry her off to an old widower in exchange for a salt-trading license.
Xue Ruixue activates the [World-Spanning Trade Network Compendium] in response. Family intrigue? She'd rather make money. Romance? She'd rather build a monopoly.
From improving fabrics and reforming canal transport to controlling the imperial merchant trade and taking on the Eighth Prince's faction, she turns Dream of the Red Chamber into a thrilling business-war saga.
But she can't seem to shake Shen Moyan, the cold-faced powerful official.
He confiscates her ledgers: “Miss Xue, where did you learn this bookkeeping method?”
He takes an arrow for her: “Your life matters more than my career.”
Then the birthmark on her wrist begins to burn, and the System announces: [First life complete. Jump countdown,]
He grips the heirloom jade pendant, his eyes dark with resolve. “Whether you're going to Shanghai in 1935 to exchange dollars or Shenzhen in 1978 to get permits, you have to take me with you.”
[Reader's Guide]
1. The heroine is level-headed and rational, with making money as her top priority. The System's assistance makes sense.
2. The male lead has the same soul across lifetimes, bound to her from one life to the next. Their relationship goes from loving and fighting to sharing life and death.
3. Each world focuses on making money by seizing the opportunities of its era, ultimately connecting trade routes across all worlds.
“My lady, your ledgers account for all the heavens, but my name is the only bad debt you have.”
