Linglong Ci

During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, Shen Qingci, the daughter of a merchant from the south of the Yangtze River, lost her mother at the age of seven and was transferred to the Gu Mansion in the capital to depend on her grandmother at the age of fifteen. The deep house is like the sea. The aunt's mother hides a knife in her smile, and the sisters each have their own secrets. She hides her clumsiness and guard her stupidity, seeking to survive in the small space of the accounting room, and uses an abacus to calculate the depth of people's hearts. Among the mother's relics, an encrypted account book reveals the past - her mother was once the number one businesswoman in Jiangnan, she spent all her wealth for love, but ended up in depression. And her death is inextricably linked to the secrets of the wealthy families in the capital and the royal family. "Some accounts are not made openly, but in the heart." She no longer hides her edge. In the game in the palace, she used her strength to rise from a concubine to the head of the family; in the strife in the palace, she used the wisdom of a businesswoman to rise from a female official to the queen's confidant; in the fight in the shopping mall, she revived her mother's property from scratch, from weak to strong; in the game in the court, she used her body as a woman to fight with the ministers, and was named the only female business official in the Ming Dynasty. She met Gu Yunshu, the son of the chief minister of the cabinet, who was as gentle as jade and had a deep palace. The two went from testing to joining forces, from using to knowing each other. He asked her: "What do you want?" She said: "What I want, I will take for myself." When the truth was revealed and the enemy was brought to justice, she stood at the pinnacle of power and asked herself: After fighting for her whole life, what are she fighting for? "Power belongs to others, money belongs to others, only life belongs to you." She chose to retreat bravely. He resigned from office and went into seclusion, dissipated all his family wealth, and went boating on the West Lake with his loved ones. Thousands of jade steps are inferior to flying flowers freely. It tells the life of the heroine from an ignorant girl to a strategist in a deep house to a chess player in the court.