Ji Qianzhen sometimes wondered: If her grandfather had never become a general entrusted with a mighty army, and the Ji family had continued living in the countryside, then the family would not have been torn apart, nor would they have suffered an extermination... As the fourth daughter of the Ji family, she could have grown up climbing mountains, wading through rivers, and doing whatever she pleased. Her happiness would have been just the same, while her present sorrows would have vanished without a ripple.
How nice.
The man beside her rebuked her: "If General Ji hadn't been a general, how would your father have met your mother? And where would you have come from?"
A displeased look crossed her face, and Shang Jun immediately changed his tune. "Without those tribulations, you and I might never have found our happy ending."
"..."
Ji Qianzhen replied with calm sincerity: "If it meant sparing the Ji family those tribulations, then I could live with never meeting you."
Shang Jun's smile gradually disappeared. "...Oh...?"
A heroine with a tragic past and a chivalrous spirit, and a hero who is a smiling, crafty merchant who keeps out of other people's affairs. One-on-one romance, happy ending, no angst for the main couple.
An alternate setting with a royal court and a martial world. The male lead is a professional merchant; the female lead studies Daoist arts in the early chapters, becoming a Daoist nun, then briefly returns to her family's ancestral profession as royal bodyguards.
The business side is very beginner-friendly and requires no brainpower. It's not really a farming story. Later on, there's conflict between the royal court and the martial world, but nothing too complicated (laughs).
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