[Cool, calculating businesswoman who knows how to play her cards × Mad tyrant who becomes a loyal dog]
Wei Xuan was the legitimate daughter of a marquis's household and the granddaughter of the wealthiest family in Jiangnan, yet her previous life was painfully miserable.
When she realized she had been reborn on the day her mother died, she made a deal before she had even taken off her mourning clothes: she spent twelve thousand taels to buy the young male entertainer at a pleasure house who was being humiliated by anyone who wanted to.
The world laughed at her for being blinded by beauty. She laughed at them for failing to see the bigger picture.
Wei Xuan bought his freedom, gave him her surname, named him Wei Zhu, and kept him by her side.
Because she knew this was no ordinary young entertainer. He was the future tyrant!
He helped Wei Xuan cleanse her household, take control of the trade routes, and sweep through the imperial court.
Wei Xuan most loved watching the man who would one day rule the empire bow his head and submit to her.
The only pity was that,
although he was devastatingly beautiful, she clearly remembered from her previous life that...
He was afraid of women.
So Wei Xuan gave up on that idea and sought warmth in someone else's bed.
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One New Year's Eve, at a palace banquet, Wei Xuan was set up and became unbearably feverish. In her confusion, she fled to a cold pool in the hills behind the palace.
In a daze, she pinned a young man against a snow-covered rock, her fingertips brushing his taut waist and abdomen.
Before her consciousness faded, all she managed to do was pull off his belt, cover his eyes with it, and threaten him in a breathless whisper: "...Don't look. Don't tell anyone."
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Years later, a new dynasty had been founded, and the empire had changed hands.
Wei Zhu gazed at the slightly raised mole near her heart and narrowed his eyes. "That New Year's Eve, did you go anywhere else, Mistress?"
Wei Xuan's heart skipped a beat as she suddenly remembered the young man whose acupoints she had sealed and whose eyes she had covered that day.
Her fingertips turned cold, but her expression remained calm. She replied evenly, "I did not."
● Female lead tops, male lead bottoms
● Relatively little household intrigue
● Many scenes with the female lead and male supporting characters
● Though this is a wish-fulfillment novel, it has a more serious tone
● The romance may pick up a little after the female lead's coming-of-age ceremony
● Strictly speaking, there is no male lead. They're all the female lead's divine beasts
● This novel is more plot-driven; the next one will focus on romance and be easier to read. Please add my new novel to your collection!
● The value of the currency in the story has been greatly inflated purely to make the figures sound impressive. It's not historically accurate, so please don't scrutinize it.
Theme: Overturn everything and build a new order.
