The Ming Dynasty's Number One Bookseller

Before transmigrating, Yan Yiyi was a junior editor. The books she handled most often were about Su Xianzhi. He was known as the last powerful minister of the Great Ming. His father died young, and his mother remarried. At sixteen, he passed the palace examination as third place. At twenty-four, he entered the Grand Secretariat. Trusted by the late emperor to protect the young ruler, he nonetheless offended all his teachers and friends with his reforms. When he was thrown into prison at thirty, not a single person dared submit a memorial to defend him. Historians loved writing about Su Xianzhi. The biographies of Su Xianzhi written by different historians numbered more than twenty versions. There were also works like Su Xianzhi and Ming Dynasty Reform, Su Xianzhi and the Ming Dynasty Grand Secretariat, and Su Xianzhi and Emperor Shaoqing... Novelists loved writing about him, too. Titles like I Reincarnated as Su Xianzhi's Dad, I Reincarnated as Su Xianzhi's Mom, and I Reincarnated as Su Xianzhi's Fiancee had practically blinded the editor. At last, after formatting a set of Ming Dynasty gossip notes about Su Xianzhi, Yao Yanyi transmigrated and became the only "rumored lover" of the lifelong bachelor Su Xianzhi. Yao Yanyi: ... * In the twenty-eighth year of Yongguang, Su Xianzhi came third in the palace examination and was appointed an editor at the Hanlin Academy. Yao Yanyi found him and published his examination essays. Looking at the finished book, he couldn't help frowning. "Why is it titled The Top Scholar's Notes?" Later, he rose rapidly through the ranks to become the highest-ranking minister, while she expanded her bookshop and made a fortune. With tears in her eyes, she swore to Su Xianzhi, who had come to her with a popular romance novel about the two of them: "My lord, I swear our bookshop absolutely did not publish this novel making up a love affair between us! Those damned pirates used our little shop's name!" A highly proactive heroine x a youthful, fatherly hero. 1. Set in an imaginary Ming Dynasty. I've done some research, but it isn't fully rigorous. 2. All characters who appear in the same scenes as the heroine are fictional composites. Please don't try to match them to real people. 3. Both leads are virgins, and this is a definitive happy ending. 4. A long, slow-burn ensemble story with multiple couples. You won't regret reading it. 5. One more thing: the heroine has a slight everyone-loves-her quality. The male characters either adore her or admire her, and even the female characters who initially envy her end up looking up to her. Message: Oppose feudalism, imperial rule, and ignorance.