In her previous life, she was the abandoned wife of a military governor, left to die in a back alley with no one to claim her body.
Reborn in the family mourning hall, she heard her grandmother announce to everyone, “The second branch has no son, so its property will be absorbed into the family estate.” She stood up. “I’m a child of the second branch.”
In this life, she wouldn’t marry or depend on a man. She would seize the family fortune, build a trading house, and take control of the docks. She would reclaim, piece by piece, everything she had lost in her previous life. Until the man who had watched her die without lifting a finger in her former life knelt before her and handed her back her knife.
“I owe you for the last life. I’ll repay you in this one.”
She took the knife and laid it on the table. “Stand tall and stand beside me.”
From a girl orphaned in a mourning hall to the owner of the docks, an account from two lifetimes lay between them. He said he would repay her, but she changed the terms.
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