[Dream of the Red Chamber Inspired + Building Wealth + Strong Female Lead]
At twelve, Liu Yunyao suddenly awoke to memories of her past life. She looked at her young face in the bronze mirror and drew a sharp breath. She had been reborn as a cannon-fodder concubine-born daughter in Dream of the Red Chamber! According to her family's plans, she was about to be packed off to the Jia household to serve as a maid in the inner chambers, where people were devoured without a trace. In the end, when the Jia household was confiscated, she would be sold off in misery.
“Think you can use my very bones to curry favor with the powerful? Dream on!” Liu Yunyao sneered. Just then, she awakened a blessed constitution that “steers toward good fortune and avoids disaster.” A flash of golden light in her mind warned her of every calamity with a sharp pang, and she sensed every chance of survival as a warm current!
While the young ladies of the Jia household were still fighting over a box of palace flowers, Liu Yunyao had already followed the guidance of her good fortune and bought her first cosmetics shop in a back alley of the capital.
Wang Xifeng sent someone to test her? Liu Yunyao frowned as danger prickled at her. She immediately pretended to be ill and closed her doors to visitors, then turned the tables and cost the Wang family's shops three thousand taels of silver.
Jia Baoyu came over to cozy up to her? She took three steps back to avoid this “harbinger of disaster,” then turned around and signed a spice deal worth one hundred thousand taels with the head merchant of a Jiangnan trading house.
A few years later, the Jia household, once ablaze with wealth and splendor, went up in flames and turned to ashes. The officials sent to confiscate the estate kicked open the gates of Rongguo Mansion as people wailed and cried out in misery.
Meanwhile, a thousand miles away in the water towns of Jiangnan, Liu Yunyao lounged against the cushioned couch in a painted pleasure boat. Her slender fingers idly leafed through a thick stack of property deeds as she quietly admired the misty spring rain outside the window.
