A heroine who defies convention: a middle-aged matriarch with a modern mindset, decisive and ruthless, and no slave to romance
A satisfying business-building story: System + building up the family + breaking economic deadlocks, with plenty of development and growth
Patriotism: an ensemble of women + political maneuvering + parallel storylines of war and commerce
A striking reversal: the path from despair in a mourning hall to taking control of the nation’s economic lifeline.
Yu Sai, a PhD in history, wakes up as She Taijun, a middle-aged widow. The first thing she sees is a mourning hall draped in white. Her family is on the verge of ruin, the court is watching them like hawks, and the Liao army is pressing at the border.
Bound to the [Eternal Military Family System], she looks at the Yang family’s withered family tree and smiles. “Who says women can only mourn the dead?”
Pig farms, soap workshops, veterans’ camps… Using a modern mindset, she quietly builds her fortune in ancient times. The Pan family poisons them? Kill them and bury them. The court tries to suppress them? Tie them together economically and make their interests inseparable.
When the Liao cavalry invades south once more, the emperor is horrified to discover that the women of Tianbo Manor have quietly taken hold of the Great Song’s lifeline.
She Saihua stands atop the city wall and smiles. “My husband, you guarded the frontier and died in its defense. Now it’s my turn to guard our home, and this realm.”
Not bad. It's logical, the pace is fast, and the group portrait writing is pretty good. Come on👍
The subject matter is relatively novel, and it is rare to see Yang family general She Taijun. The structure of this book is also relatively novel, with a compact storyline, a female protagonist, no CP, and very beautiful.