Shen Qingyi transmigrated and found herself in the body of the fifth wife, newly married to the Fenyang Military Governor.
Four wives eyed her warily, while crafty servants and stewards took advantage of her youth. On the third day after the wedding, they threw a deficit of thirty thousand silver dollars at her and pressured her to hand over the ancestral estate she had brought as dowry to cover the shortfall!
Everyone expected the fallen noblewoman to burst into tears and beg the Military Governor to intervene.
Instead, Shen Qingyi didn't cry or fuss. She put her name to a three-day deadline to uncover the missing funds.
And in just one night, she exposed irrefutable evidence in front of everyone that the steward and the fourth wife's family had been trafficking military provisions.
She sent the wicked servants to prison, seized control of the household, and moved into a separate little pleasure house!
They gave her three hundred mu of barren, saline-alkali land along the Hun River?
She improved the cold-resistant Jinyuan bean, doubling the yield per mu and causing a stir throughout Guandong.
They stuck her with a bankrupt, run-down spinning mill?
She upgraded the looms and secured a contract to supply winter uniforms for three hundred thousand troops, making a fortune.
The Military Governor brought a famous opera performer into the household as his sixth wife, and the whole city waited to see Shen Qingyi lose his favor and become a laughingstock.
Who could have guessed she would turn the sixth wife into her most capable informant!
Then, one year, thunder crashed over Liushutun. The Military Governor was gravely wounded, Japanese agents surrounded the gates to test them, and the entire household teetered on the brink of ruin.
Shen Qingyi wiped away her tears, put on her most striking red makeup, and sat calmly in the front hall, chatting and laughing. Against all odds, she deceived everyone and stabilized the situation in Guandong!
In these turbulent times, watch how she uses her own hands to protect four young children and every woman and child in the household, and bring them all through safely.
