The Merchant's Daughter of Jiangzhou

Shen Qingci had died once.

In her previous life, she was the daughter of Jiangzhou's richest man. To help the man she loved, Pei Yanzhi, rise to power, she spent her family's fortune and used up every connection she had. She thought that was what love was supposed to look like, until she was bedridden with a grave illness and Pei Yanzhi arrived in a bright red wedding robe to marry her stepsister, Shen Qingyue.

She died consumed by hatred, having written the character for “divorce” in blood.

When she opened her eyes again, she was back at her eighteenth birthday banquet. Pei Yanzhi was presenting her with a family heirloom jade ring and proposing before the entire gathering, his voice full of affection: “For this life and all the lives to come, I wish to grow old by Qingci's side, never to part.”

Shen Qingci accepted the ring with a smile, then threw it off a sheer cliff in front of all the city's powerful families.

“Master Pei, your vows are too cheap. Why don't we talk business instead?”

Reborn, she erased the words “love and romance” from her life's lexicon. Faced with her ex-husband's false affection, she wielded commerce as a blade and wealth as a weapon, rooting out parasites in her family while building a business empire of her own. She would no longer be anyone's stepping stone. She would be the master of her own domain.

This is more than a tale of revenge: it is the epic story of a woman growing from someone who is chosen into someone who makes her own choices.

She would show them all: love may betray you, but the money and power in your hands never will.