[A seemingly innocent but actually calculating, seductive beauty vs. a seemingly carefree, playful, down-on-his-luck young gentleman who is secretly kind and thoughtful]
"I'm not the one who creates the world. I'm the one who changes it."
The moment Xie Yun opened her eyes, she found herself in a remote mountain village, stripped of her freedom and sold by her own maternal grandmother to an old widower as his second wife. She managed to escape, but still had nowhere to go. Luckily, an elderly member of the Xie family took pity on her and let her live in a woodshed. With a timid mother, a naive younger sister, all sorts of awful relatives, and floods and locusts threatening the rice fields, she had every possible hardship piled on her.
Fortunately, Xie Yun awakened the Baidu System: Du Xiaoman loans with no interest for the first month, an encyclopedia that could identify things from photos, a dazzling Baidu Mall, a portable space that could be upgraded with silver, and Xiaodu AI, which was fairly reliable at first but later went completely off the rails, making things up left and right...
With the System's support, Xie Yun confidently started all kinds of businesses, selling delicious snacks like dried vegetables, milk tea, century eggs, braised meat, and canned desserts. She made a fortune, led the villagers in fighting floods and eradicating pests, and dealt with the corrupt village chief and her awful relatives. After experiencing the warmth and coldness of human nature, Xie Yun decided to lead the whole village to prosperity and turn backward Lotus Village into a center of trade and commerce.
Ding! Map function unlocked. Every place the Host has visited, along with everything within a hundred meters, will be marked! As it turned out, nestled among the surrounding boulders was a hot spring, right along the road between the village and the town. Soon, hot spring wine and a food street sprang up from the ground.
When His Majesty saw the tax revenue from Lotus Village skyrocketing, he fell into deep thought. Such a gifted businesswoman had emerged among the common people? Reward her! Xie Yun was appointed a fifth-rank Trade Commissioner and sent south to the Nanyang with merchant ships to promote commerce between nations. Lotus Village was renamed Lotus Town, becoming the first official trading port.
Along the way, she also met a man. He was handsome, cheerful, and always knew how to crack jokes and make her happy.
Xie Yun couldn't help asking him, "Why leave the fine capital and come to a backwater like this?"
Xiao Xu pursed his lips. "I told you, I'm on the run."
"What terrible crime did you commit?"
"I beat up a prince!"
Xie Yun: "...Don't worry. Big Sis has got you covered!"
Xiao Xu thought she was joking. Then Xie Yun's business empire kept growing, and the amnesiac little beggar she'd casually saved turned out to be the seventh prince of Great Yong, having managed to stay out of the factional strife. The seventh prince was kind-hearted, and after living with Xie Yun for a while, he was deeply influenced by her modern ideas. Once he took the throne, he encouraged open debate, built canals, and lowered taxes. He officially renamed Lotus Town Cloudrise City and moved the capital there. Xie Yun's status rose right along with it. (There's little factional strife in the story. Most of it is about farming and business.)
Xie Yun smiled faintly. "Well, Xiao Xu, is this enough to put your mind at ease?"
Theme: A woman makes a living through adversity, takes charge of her household, and finds happiness in the world.
It still needs a system, and I also want to add a universal system. [Cat head]
[Purple Sugar] Teacher kswl, you are so awesome!