At twenty-eight, Shen Qingci was a managing director at an investment bank. Then she opened her eyes and found herself a sickly legitimate daughter in the Marquis’s household, someone everyone could bully. Her stepmother smiles with a knife behind her back, while her illegitimate younger sister pretends to be kind as she plots against her. They even want Shen Qingci to take her place in a marriage to a lame old marquis? Shen Qingci uses psychology to turn the wicked servants against one another and negotiation skills to tear through their hypocrisy. At a family meeting, she recites the laws of the Qing Dynasty before everyone and reclaims every last bit of her birth mother’s dowry. By the time the God of War prince and the sons of noble families begin to take an interest in her, she has already used that money to buy the busiest restaurant in the capital. Her journey leads to the stars and the sea.
