The Moneylender Was Reborn Seven Days Before Me

Name: The Moneylender Was Reborn Seven Days Before Me
Author: Ghost of the Deep Sea Gazing at Moonlight

钱庄先生早我七天重生

by Ghost of the Deep Sea Gazing at Moonlight (深海的幽灵啊注视月光)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 232k Words
Genre: Modern Romance
Subgenre: Republican-Era Romance
Updated: 14d ago
Source: Fanqie

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[Career-Focused Female Lead + Supportive Male Lead] + [Beautiful, Unhinged Second Female Lead + Sharp-Tongued, Proud Second Male Lead] + [Sincere Romance]

"Boss Chen, my eldest sister doesn't like having her picture taken. She looks about the same as my second younger sister. You've met her, after all."

With that one sentence, Hu Lingyi became Boss Chen's second wife.

Boss Chen thought she looked ordinary, but he had to admit she had a gift with numbers. Not a single transaction in the Chen family's accounts over the past three years escaped her abacus. She earned her place in the Chen family through her own ability, but just as she settled in, a strange illness struck. She coughed blood, her medicine was withheld, and she was left to waste away in the back storeroom. The first two women who'd married into the family had met the same end, and now she was on the same path.

After she was divorced and sent back to her family, things there had improved. Lingheng had become an out-and-out villain. Her second sister let him feed her bite after bite of meat, gentle and tender, without joy or sorrow. Her third younger brother sat beneath the pomegranate tree all day, holding an empty cricket jar and saying nothing.

After she died, her eldest brother said coffins were too expensive and tossed her out in a straw mat. Her third brother knew how to carry the coffin but not how to toss out the mat, so he was beaten to the ground. The only man who gathered her remains was Cheng Yanchi. When he tried to take her away, her second sister pleaded for him, and he was beaten to death at the docks.

Later, when Boss Chen tried to marry Lingxian, Lingheng killed him. Lingxian looked down at the lump on the ground and said softly, "Brother, I don't feel like eating meat today." Lingheng went to prison, and the Hu family was left empty.

Reborn, Hu Lingyi would rather die than marry. Hu Lingxian was still the same flesh-and-blood second sister who knew how to scheme, and with one sentence she dumped the problem of a hundred silver dollars on Cheng Yanchi. Cheng Yanchi forged a marriage certificate, and Hu Lingyi became the female bookkeeper at an orphanage. Boss Chen married a new second wife, and the Chen family's crimes continued in this life.

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