The iron-fisted investment banker from Wall Street dies suddenly and transmigrates, opening her eyes in the body of the Prince of Zhenbei’s stand-in bride.
On their wedding night, the male lead coldly tells her, “You look like her.” Shen Nian turns the period-drama script upside down:
No scheming in the household, no pining after an iceman. First, she treats the prince’s estate like a public company and conducts due diligence before restructuring it.
His beloved returns to provoke her? Shen Nian fires back with modern rhetoric, leaving no room for emotional blackmail.
The world laughs at her delusions of love. She sneers: marriage is a strategic investment. When the returns are negative, cut your losses and get a divorce!
When she slaps the divorce papers on the table, Xiao Heng, the Prince of Zhenbei, feels a tightness in his chest for the first time, but doesn’t understand what it means to miss someone.
She takes her modest dowry into the business world, wins her first round of funding with a business plan written on bamboo slips, launches a modern tea-drink shop, opens a school for women, and builds a franchise chain. From divorced wife cast aside, she rises to become the richest person in the Great Jing.
Meanwhile, the icy prince commands a powerful army and is notoriously incapable of recognizing emotions. After she leaves, he spends night after night researching “lovesickness,” stumbling through his attempts to win her back and making a fool of himself. Her rival schemes against her, the Empress Dowager gives her a hard time, a wrongful case from her past life hides deadly secrets, and another transmigrator enters the fray as a business rival.
She uses her investment-banking skills to break through every obstacle, overturning the business rules of the ancient world with modern thinking.
He starts out emotionally crippled, unable to understand love or hate, but slowly learns how to protect and cherish her, clear the obstacles in her path, and stand up to the rules of propriety for her sake.
In time, her businesses reach across the country and her influence extends to the imperial court. The young emperor calls her his teacher, and the people honor her as the Saint of Commerce.
He presents her with a ten-scroll bamboo-slate proposal and drops to one knee. “I’ll be your second-in-command. You’ll take the lead. For the rest of our lives, I’ll be your partner and yours alone.”
Shen Nian arches a brow. “Love can come later. Making money comes first. My goal is to build an empire of my own.”
Clear thinking, good looking