I Forced Myself on a Ruined Scholar with a Cleaver, Then Rose to Power as a Butcher

“A butcher’s cleaver in one hand and a golden abacus in the other, Su Jiaojiao, a butcher’s daughter from the bustling streets, smashed her way through the shabby door of impoverished scholar Pei Qingyan.”

Everyone in the capital knew that the newly crowned top third-place graduate, Pei Qingyan, was aloof and immaculate, yet he had a lowborn butcher’s wife. The noble ladies, born with silver spoons in their mouths, sneered, “Reeking of pork, and you think you belong at the top graduate’s side?”

Who could have guessed that when the imperial treasury ran dry, Su Jiaojiao would appear in red, flick her abacus, and produce ten thousand taels of gold to fund the army? Everyone gaped in shock, only then realizing that the capital’s largest trading house belonged to her!

When faced with a princess’s marriage decree and pressure from his colleagues, Pei Qingyan shielded his butcher girl behind him, his gaze icy. “I will neither divorce my wife nor take concubines for as long as I live. If you force my hand, I’d sooner give up this office!”

A sharp, money-loving butcher girl × a cool, patient scholar who fiercely protects his own. Watch a streetwise young woman sell pork and raise a scheming grand chancellor who holds power over the entire court!