[Generous with money, doting on her wife, unflappable younger Alpha x cool, sickly, scheming older Omega]
The Song family, one of Jiangcheng's most prominent wealthy clans, has gone bankrupt.
To pay off its debts, the second daughter, Song Yujin, is forced into marriage. She had just returned from studying abroad and spent her days lazing about and living off her parents.
Among the many people who offer to marry into her family, Song Yujin picks and chooses until she settles on an older, sickly but wealthy female Omega.
Rumor has it the Ji family carries a hereditary illness, and its members never live long. The longest-lived Ji on record only made it to thirty-six.
A quick calculation tells her that, in five or six years at most, she'll be able to inherit a lovely fortune.
The more Song Yujin thinks about it, the more satisfied she is. Afraid someone else might snatch away this windfall, she acts at once, grabs her household register, and knocks on the Ji family's door.
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Her sickly wife is extremely generous, giving her as much pocket money as she wants.
After the wedding, Song Yujin returns to the comfortable, wealthy life of a noblewoman.
But their good fortune doesn't last. The lavish meals at home gradually turn into steamed buns and pickles, so Song Yujin asks her wife for more pocket money.
The beauty leans by the window. Her slender, graceful figure is wrapped in the Alpha's loose, smooth silk robe, and her delicate fingers, fine as scallions, lightly move the beads of an abacus. A faint melancholy furrows her brows.
"Three Alpha health supplements a day for A-Jin, costing 3,000 yuan daily."
"The ladies from the Baomu opera troupe come to perform for A-Jin every day. Performance fees, stage setup, tea... It all comes to 50,000 yuan a day."
"The banquet delivered by the Meiyu Restaurant for every meal, the finest bespoke clothes from Dongjin..."
Song Yujin hears only the sound of her inheritance pouring away.
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For the sake of her inheritance, she grits her teeth and painfully gives up her Alpha stamina pills.
When Ji Shumian is dissatisfied at night, she exercises instead.
The second daughter of the Song family, who'd never lifted a finger around the house, develops a few thin calluses and a lean, toned body that's both attractive and useful.
She stops hiring the opera troupe, too, and spends her days reading books instead.
She cooks for herself and only buys ready-made clothes.
Her life becomes frugal, monotonous, and bland.
Ji Shumian feels sorry for her. In her free time, she plays the zither and dances for her, her light clothes damp with sweat and releasing a sweet fragrance.
But she overexerts herself, coughs up blood, and becomes so ill she's on the verge of death.
Song Yujin, eyes red, carries her on her back and runs to the hospital.
But there's hardly any pocket money left, and she can't even afford a ride. She races ten streets on foot and reaches the hospital just before Ji Shumian passes away.
Medical care costs money, medicine costs money, treatment costs money. Everything costs money...
Song Yujin returns to her family's old trade and gets Ji Shumian the best medicinal herbs and doctors.
Before she knows it, her inheritance is growing bigger and bigger. She even catches the wave of a booming market and becomes Jiangcheng's richest person.
Ji Shumian's sickly complexion grows rosier, too.
Life is getting better all around.
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Until one day, Song Yujin accidentally opens a room in their house.
It's filled with medicine-making tools. The handmade Alpha health supplements that cost a fortune on the market are made here.
Then she accidentally catches Ji Shumian calling the head of the Baomu opera troupe her sister. "You saved my mother and me twenty years ago. I can never repay you in this lifetime, so how could I possibly accept all this money?"
And that's not all.
The restaurant owner, the clothes shopkeeper... They're all Ji Shumian's employees.
The eastern courtyard, where Ji Shumian never lets her set foot, holds a vast hall packed with gold and silver, antiques, and famous paintings, worth many thousands of times more than the millions she's earned lately.
Song Yujin feels as if fate has played a cruel joke on her.
In a fit of rage, she runs away from home.
She goes to neighboring Haicheng and checks into a new resort where none of the Ji family's businesses have a presence.
One evening, as she walks beside the lake, a sudden gust of wind sweeps a graceful beauty over from the other side.
Ji Shumian rises onto her toes and presses a light kiss to Song Yujin's cheek, leaving a trace of pale red lipstick.
Her cool voice trembles. "A-Jin, I'm thirty-six this year. Don't you want to come back and bury me?"
1. Both leads are pure, happy ending, sweet and satisfying.
2. Set in a fictionalized version of the 1980s and 1990s.
3. Simple writing style.
Theme: Live life well.
