The Heirless Prince Reads My Mind, and His Bestselling Princess Consort Goes on a Rampage

Modern sales champion Lin Ziqin transmigrates into the body of a concubine-born daughter sent to marry in place of someone else into the Prince of Zhenbei’s household. On her wedding night, she is forced to drink poisoned bird’s nest soup and join her husband in death. Unless she can use her last hundred taels to keep up the household’s appearances before the family banquet the next day, she’ll become the second corpse in a corruption case. Using her sales skills, negotiation tactics, financial restructuring, and keen insight into people’s emotions, she takes charge of the household finances. What she doesn’t know is that the poisoned Prince of Zhenbei, Gu Weizhen, can hear her thoughts. As “she pretends to be devoted while he pretends not to know,” the two wager over her dowry, recover embezzled businesses, and revive wasteland by securing long-term leases for dormitories at the Imperial College. Her first million-tael windfall doesn’t buy her freedom. Instead, she finds herself responsible for military pay, housing, and the livelihoods of thousands of families. As the Prince’s trade routes reach into a financial network jointly controlled by the Ministry of Revenue, the great clans, and the emperor, she must choose between fleeing with the money and keeping her promises. Gu Weizhen, too, must decide between seizing the throne for revenge and surrendering his military power.