Reborn, I Became an Imperial Merchant

In her previous life, she was the legitimate daughter of the Shen family. Her stepmother married her off to a marquis’s household under the pretext of bringing good fortune. After three years of torment, she died full of resentment.

She opens her eyes and finds herself back at fourteen. Her stepmother is still wearing a false smile, and her father is still alive. She casts off her weakness and takes the name Qingshang. “A merchant is someone who knows how to scheme. I’ll scheme my way back, fair and square.”

Drawing on the memories of her previous life, she stockpiles silk before prices rise, outmaneuvers her stepmother, and takes on the trade fair. Starting with a tea shop that is losing money, she builds her own business empire step by step.

She thought all she needed in this life was to make money, but then she meets a man who seems gentle and refined on the surface, yet is decisive and ruthless beneath it. He offers her the bowl of porridge from her previous life, then says in this one, “All you need to know is that I won’t hurt you.”

From using each other to giving each other their hearts, from a little shop in Yunzhou to the emperor’s foremost merchant

She says, “Women are no less capable than men.”

He says, “I’m marrying Shen Qingshang, not an appendage of the Shen family.”

This is the story of a woman who turns the tables against the odds in a patriarchal world, and of two equally matched souls fighting side by side.

As the lights of ten thousand homes come on, she can finally say, “In this life, I live for myself.”