Joyful Buddha

[Night Scout x Money-Crazed Madwoman]

Urgent report from Guangning Outer Fort: The scouting night patrol was surrounded and wiped out by the Wuliangha cavalry. All thirteen were killed. The squad leader was the gentry, Zong Qin.

At last, the childhood friend who'd been after her was dead.

Le Fu went to his empty tomb and cried a few times, then took out all the letters he'd sent her. He'd dared to write that kind of filth, but she hadn't even dared to read it.

She burned them all. Let the Judge take a look and sentence that lecherous bastard to never be reborn.

"Go in peace. I'll take care of your father in his old age."

A man dying wouldn't stop her from running her business, or from rekindling things with her first love.

Later, Zong Qin came back.

Back from the dead, pure and harmless, he brought business to the carriage company from every corner of the land. It was as if her sweet childhood playmate had returned, just for a limited time.

Le Fu was delighted and treated him like a god of wealth.

Until the day they went boating in the Western Garden.

She fell into the water. He rescued her. Everyone saw.

In less than seven days, she was sitting in a bridal sedan.

*Ensemble cast, slow burn

*An alternate-history Ming dynasty, with blended laws and institutions, and real-world place names

Theme: Building businesses and securing the frontier are everyone's responsibility