Chen Qiuyan, the Village Girl

[Historical Wealth-Building] [Original Heroine] [Broken Engagement Power Fantasy] [Clear-Eyed Protagonist] [Fortune-Making Street Stall] [Hardcore Number-Crunching] [Fierce Romantic Rivalry] [Everyone Faces Their Comeuppance]

After catching her fiance cheating while wearing the leather shoes she'd bought him, Chen Qiuyan tore up her tragic-love-story script on the spot and doused his future with a basin of cold slop!

No rebirth, no golden finger. The village beauty came into her own. He wanted to freeload? She snapped open a yellowed ledger: three years of grain she'd given him, worth 380 yuan. Not one cent less, or she'd overturn the rundown factory! The man could get lost, but every grain he'd eaten had to be paid back with interest!

She took the scoundrel's leather shoes to cover the interest, then set up a braised-meat stall in the factory district with an iron pot. Meat buns for ten cents, boxed meals for fifty. Her abacus clicked away as she fought her way to becoming the richest person in the county. The worst relatives tried to mooch off her? She blasted their matchmaking scheme apart with firecrackers! Rivals tried to sabotage her? She chopped bones with a cleaver and showed them who was boss!

As her business grew, two men blocked the way in front of her stall. A tough, taciturn mechanic with a fiery temper kept showing up with a knife to protect her, while an arrogant young master, too proud for his own good, happily put on an apron, smiled, and waited tables.

Chen Qiuyan brought down her cleaver and sneered: Want to eat for free? Sign a contract to work for me first!