The Rebellious Power Minister Won a Marquisate with Mathematics

The night Shen Qi was sold at the human-meat market, the whole capital was celebrating the coming-of-age ceremony of the Li family’s third young lady.

Three months later, she escaped from the broker who had bought her and found work as a bookkeeper’s assistant at Jubaotang, the most shadowy place in the capital.

No one knew that this girl, who could barely afford to eat, could spot three years of fraudulent accounts at a glance, or even reconstruct the web of relationships among the entire court from its cash flows.

Later, when Grand Secretary Li Chongyuan needed to investigate a missing military payroll, he humbled himself to ask her to come out of hiding.

Later still, she held the Li family’s lifeline in her hands and settled the aristocratic clans’ debts, line by line, before the entire court.

Someone asked her: As a mere woman, what gives you the right to stand at the very top?

She turned the last page of the ledger without looking up.

“Because every coin in this realm knows the name Shen Qingshang.”