After My Archenemy Discovered I'm a Woman, He Refused to Leave Me Alone

[Woman Disguised as a Man + Two Powerful Leads + Bickering Couple + Political Intrigue + Confiscation and Exile + Almost Married + Secret Identity Exposed]

Jiang Xunning, daughter of the wealthiest family in Jiangnan, had just publicly torn up the calligraphy and paintings of her down-on-his-luck fiancé, Lin MoyI.

She pressured him to break off their engagement, only for an imperial inspector to raid the Jiang family and exile the entire clan.

Worse still, after a hidden treasure from the previous dynasty recognized her as its master, it told her:

Lin MoyI would one day place among the top imperial exam graduates, become an iron-fisted chancellor, and monopolize the empire’s trade routes.

As for Jiang Xunning, she would die on the road to exile.

To stay alive, Jiang Xunning blackened her face overnight, disguised herself as a man named “Xiao Jiang,” a young bookkeeper, and shamelessly latched onto Lin MoyI.

She paved the way for his imperial exams and shielded him from underhanded attacks in officialdom;

Meanwhile, she quietly snatched up the salt and iron, canal transport, and money house businesses that would one day be his, securing her place as the richest person in the empire.

After the Qionglin Banquet, the newly crowned top scholar Lin MoyI, now a power to be reckoned with at court, cornered her behind a rockery in the imperial garden:

“Shopkeeper Jiang, you can calculate every account in the world, but have you ever calculated how many taels Lin’s heart is worth?”

Jiang Xunning clutched her secret identity tight. This is bad. If the chancellor finds out I’m the wicked woman who tore up his paintings and broke off our engagement back then, will he spare my life?