Li Yuru transmigrates into the body of an orphan girl whose uncle and aunt are forcing her to marry an old widower. From the start, all she has is a white silk noose.
She grabs the impoverished scholar who has come to seek refuge with her and produces a contract she drafted overnight:
“An arranged marriage in name, a business partnership in truth. I’ll provide the money, you’ll provide the labor. I’ll pay for your studies and civil service exams, and you’ll keep me safe and sound.”
“When it’s all done, the marriage contract is void, and we each go our own way!”
Looking into the young woman’s eyes, bright with cunning and vitality, Chu Zhixing inexplicably nods.
Later, she starts with a bowl of fragrant wontons and grows from a roadside stall into the capital’s top restaurant.
He rises from licentiate to top-ranked scholar, all so he can stand by her side as someone worthy of her.
It's nice and warm, the setting of marriage first, love later (ancient version) is very interesting, I like it 😳