When he was nine years old, the Nanzhao Kingdom was destroyed and the Liuli Palace was burned down. The little princess Yunzhu climbed out of the dog hole. The last look she took was the flames of her father's palace rising into the sky.
After wandering for four years, when she was thirteen years old and carrying bags at the dock, she met Shen Qingci, the defected medical girl who was poisoned by her family and died soon. A contract with a poisonous oath: "Take Acacia, get the antidote every month, and protect my son until he is fifteen. I will teach you to survive in this cannibalistic world."
Shen Qingci is not a good teacher. She is selfish and cold-hearted, and the first lesson she teaches Yunzhu is "There are no good people in the world, only interests." But she taught everything she had: doing business and settling accounts, reading people's hearts, and protecting yourself from killing people. She said: "Hate allows you to live, but not well."
At the age of fourteen, his master died of illness, leaving behind a three-year-old sick son, Shen Yan, businesses all over Jiuzhou, and a last word: "The most poisonous thing is not lovesickness, but the human heart."
Yunzhu takes over "Yunshang Trading Company" and gathers Lin Waanniang, a female teacher who dreams of teaching despite being unkind to others, and Qin Hongxiu, who is forced to become a bandit but is also a good thief. They carve out a way for women to survive in a world dominated by men.
Until Mr. Xie Changan, the accountant, showed up. The gentle and elegant scholar will also suffer from the poison on the fifteenth day of every month - the one who suffers from the same "love-sickness" as her. He is the seventh prince of Beiliang, and he only approaches her to steal the antidote.
The two poisons come from the same source, falling in love and killing each other. She wants to use business to subvert his country, and he wants to use her hand to take revenge. On the chessboard, they are each other's sharpest knife and most deadly weakness.
When businesses opened across Kyushu and the intelligence network penetrated the court, Yunzhu stood in front of the Beiliang Palace and suddenly understood: revenge is not the end. What she wants is that there will no longer be the tragedy of Nanzhao in this world, so that women do not have to rely on marriage to define their value, so that children do not have to grow up in the flames of war.
You are hired by mountains and rivers, and you are not hired by the country, but by a new world.
Purpose: Women support each other and grow up in desperate situations, change their destiny with wisdom rather than violence, and finally transcend personal hatred and establish a fairer order.