Su Youli was a modern powerhouse and the second generation of the Su Group, a beverage empire her father built from scratch, from a school-run factory's sales department to selling popsicles from a three-wheeled cart, eventually reaching annual revenue of 60 billion yuan. She went to the United States at fourteen. After returning to China, her father sent her to a contract bottling plant that had been losing money year after year. In eleven years, she turned it into the industry's hidden champion, Su Contract Manufacturing. At thirty-five, she was caught in a family power struggle. Her father's mistress joined forces with her own uncle to frame her in a car accident. As she fell unconscious, her soul transmigrated into the body of Su Yanci, the fifteen-year-old legitimate eldest daughter of a wealthy merchant family in Yangzhou during the Great Zhou Dynasty. The girl had just been plotted against by Han Pingping, a concubine from outside the household, and her second uncle, and had fallen off a cliff. She had been unconscious for three months.
After Su Youli awoke with the girl's memories, she used the same ruthless tactics she had wielded in modern corporate power struggles to eliminate the concubine's branch of the family, bring down her second uncle, and reclaim the family fortune within two years. She also sponsored Song Shi'an, a poor scholar, to pass the imperial examinations and enter officialdom. To uncover the court conspiracy behind the fall and protect the Su family, she volunteered to enter the palace as a female official. She was assigned to serve as a reader and attendant to the Fifth Princess, Lu Yan. From then on, she became a "maid," helping the princess, who was ignored by the emperor because of her lowborn mother but possessed the talent to govern, rise step by step in "rank": from an invisible princess on the fringes of the Cold Palace, to taking part in court discussions, to becoming the Crown Princess, and finally ascending the throne as emperor.
The day of triumph was also the day of parting. Knowing all of Lu Yan's secrets, Su Youli deliberately allowed herself to be framed when Lu Yan tacitly approved her favored official Shen Yanzhi's scheme. She was left with a disability in her legs, then left the capital with the help of Song Shi'an, now a chancellor, and spent the rest of her life guarding the Su family estate. In the end, Song Shi'an saw through the rise and fall of officialdom, gave up his chancellor's seal, and retired with her.
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