About the Book: Don't Mess with That Farmer Girl, She Holds the Nation's Granaries in Her Hands
[Brilliant, cool-headed actuary × a devoted gambler with a devastating past]
When top actuary Shen Qing opened her eyes, she had become an orphan exiled to the frontier of the Great Qian dynasty.
Her family had nothing, greedy relatives were trying to seize her inheritance, and she was saddled with a brutal debt that kept growing with interest.
Shen Qing gave a cold laugh and tapped her abacus. “To me, everything in this world is numbers. Even human greed can be quantified.”
In a muddy pit under a torrential downpour, she “bought” a starving beggar for three copper coins.
He was Lu Jingshen, once a dazzling young talent, now a good-for-nothing whose reckless gambling had ruined his family.
Shen Qing looked down at him, her voice icy. “Want to die? Pay off what you owe me first. You're mortgaging the rest of your life to me.”
From that moment on, the Great Qian dynasty changed:
The rocky wasteland everyone despised became a limestone mine that earned gold every day in her hands.
The barren alkali fields became a flourishing estate without equal in the world.
She built trading companies, opened up remittance networks, and fortified the city, turning the desolate frontier into an impregnable city worthy of an emperor.
When turmoil gripped the court and powerful ministers moved to seize the throne, Shen Qing's political enemies, thinking she was nothing but a farm girl, came to her door to steal her grain.
But Lu Jingshen, the supposedly meek “bookkeeper,” held a bloodstained sword, his eyes dark and menacing. “You want to lay a hand on my boss? Have you checked this ledger of lives I hold?”
Seated behind her abacus, Shen Qing looked at the powerful nobles kneeling across the floor, her expression calm.
“Don't rush. We'll settle the accounts one by one. It's time this realm had a new ruling house.”
