As an illegitimate daughter of the Sheng Duke’s household, one of the capital’s most prestigious families, Sheng Mingshu’s life took a sharp turn for the worse when she was sixteen.
Her elder sister eloped with a man, and Sheng Mingshu became the sacrificial stand-in bride. She was carried in a small sedan chair to the poorest alley in the western part of the city and married to Gu Qingci, a scholar who had nothing but a handsome face.
On their wedding night, their home was bare, the rice jar was nearly empty, her husband was frail and sickly, and her mother-in-law wore a troubled expression.
Sheng Mingshu: Fine. A hard-mode start from the start. I accept my fate. :)
Just as she was preparing to sell her dowry and tearfully brace herself for hard mode, a “ding” rang in her mind:
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Sheng Mingshu: “...?”
At first, she only wanted to use “Pinduoduo” to get some rice, flour, oil, and salt so her family could have a proper meal.
She bought high-yield potatoes and solved the whole village’s famine problem. The villagers worshipped her like a living bodhisattva.
She bought a cement formula and built bridges and roads. The once-muddy alley became a model street in the capital.
She bought penicillin and cured her sickly husband. From then on, Gu Qingci’s imperial examination journey...
