Female lead (Shen Qingwu): Eighteen, the legitimate daughter of the Shen family, a prominent Jiangnan silk-producing clan. In her previous life, she was naive and was betrayed by her fiancé, Gu Xiuyuan, and her cousin, Shen Wanru, who joined forces to seize her family’s wealth. Her parents died horribly, and she was sold to a government entertainment house, where she endured endless humiliation before dying. She is reborn at sixteen, before any of it has happened.
· Career arc: Become Liang’s leading businesswoman → take control of the nationwide silk and tea trade routes → establish the intelligence network “Thousand Mechanisms Pavilion” → ultimately become the foremost imperial merchant, influence state policy, and make her enemies suffer worse than death.
Not bad, hahaha