Even After Being Sold, I Can Become the Mistress of the House

The heroine, Lin Wan'er, was born into a family of scholars, but her father developed a gambling addiction and drove the family into decline. In the end, she was sold to the prominent local Shen family to become a child bride and bring good fortune to their gravely ill young son. The Shen family appears prosperous on the surface, but is rife with vicious infighting: her father-in-law is incompetent, her mother-in-law is domineering, and the wives of the various branches scheme against one another for control of the household. They even try to kill her, a “good-luck charm” with no support or influence. Lin Wan'er has no golden finger or powerful backer. Her only assets are the bookkeeping skills her grandfather taught her as a child and her exceptional ability to read people. Faced with the threat of her husband's early death, a plot to have her thrown out of the family, and the collapse of the family business, she chooses neither to run away nor to die for love. Instead, she turns the family's internal conflicts to her advantage, forging alliances and playing one side against another. First, she wins over Shen Yan, her seemingly dissolute but secretly formidable younger half-brother-in-law, and the two form a secret alliance. As the Shen family teeters on the brink of ruin, she turns the tide despite being a woman with no power, uncovers the holes in the accounts, and purges the family's corrupt members. In the end, she not only saves the Shen family business, but also wins the admiration of the man who once looked down on her, along with the only loyalty and love he will ever offer.