Grab the Cash and Run! The Yandere Rebel Minister Is Losing His Mind

Greedy and lustful VS a deranged, lovesick fake aloof beauty

Yun Shuyao was born at just the right time. The royal family was running out of heirs, and the only prince was hopeless, so the emperor had no choice but to groom two princesses to assist the crown prince. As a result, the Great Sheng Kingdom enjoyed unprecedented gender equality, and women benefited too, with their status steadily rising.

Daughters can make their own way in the world, rise up from the bottom, and sing their own songs. Any profession is open to them, from farming and manufacturing to business.

Yun Shuyao, who grew up in a brothel, has one grand ambition: to follow in the footsteps of Mama Zhang, the madam of the Drunken Village, and make the establishment bigger and better until it becomes the greatest brothel in Great Sheng, if not the entire continent.

While pursuing her goal, Yun Shuyao accidentally saves a breathtakingly beautiful man.

He says his name is Su Yun.

Yun Shuyao stares at Su Yun’s peerless face, her eyes practically popping out. A beauty like this is clearly a gift from heaven, the Drunken Village’s future star courtesan!

So Yun Shuyao patiently trains him, er, cultivates him into a future star courtesan.

But just when victory is within reach, Yun Shuyao comes up empty-handed. Su Yun is actually Su Qingyun.

Su Qingyun, the legitimate youngest son of the traitorous prime minister, and the most beautiful man in the capital.

The entire Su family was executed, but Su Qingyun escaped!

What Yun Shuyao never expected was that the Eldest Princess and the Youngest Princess would both come knocking.

Eldest Princess: “I’ll give you one million taels of silver to disappear from Su Qingyun’s side!”

Youngest Princess: “I’ll give you one million taels of silver. Get away from Su Qingyun right now, or I’ll have the dozens of lives at your Drunken Village buried with you.”

What could Yun Shuyao do? She tucked away the two million taels in silver notes, signed over Su Qingyun’s contract that very night, and fled as fast as she could.

Only an idiot would turn down money!

As long as the green hills remain, there’ll be no shortage of firewood!

Just as Yun Shuyao’s Drunken Village is about to flourish in the frontier, the Imperial Tutor comes calling.

Well, look at that. Su Qingyun has caught up with her.

Su Qingyun’s eyes redden with fury. “Yun Shuyao, how dare you? How could you leave without saying goodbye?!”

Yun Shuyao: “Let me explain myself. I mean, let me make my case.”

Su Qingyun: “I know you had no choice. Come back with me, and I can forgive you.”

Yun Shuyao: “?” Did he talk himself into this?

Yun Shuyao asks hesitantly, “Aren’t you angry with me?”

Su Qingyun: “I am. I hate you so much I want to drink your blood and devour your flesh. It’s hatred for you that’s kept me alive all this time!”

Yun Shuyao doesn’t think she’s an idiot, so she has to run away again.

But Su Qingyun says:

“You told me, ‘Better to live miserably than die well.’”

“‘As long as the green hills remain, there’ll be no shortage of firewood.’”

“‘When the wind blows, even a pig can fly.’”

“I’ve always remembered those words. They kept me going.”

Yun Shuyao is stunned into silence: “...” Is it possible I was just trying to brainwash you back then?

Yun Shuyao secretly helps clear the Su family’s name. In bringing down the Eldest and Youngest Princesses, she ends up turning the world upside down and appearing before the emperor. The old emperor bursts into tears of joy. “Isn’t this my second princess, the daughter I lost among the common people?”

After all that, Su Qingyun is still going to marry a princess.

The Drunken Village can’t stay open, so Yun Shuyao has no choice but to go home and inherit the family business.

Husky-like heroine VS aloof beauty hero who gets led astray

A few things to know before reading:

Oh dear, I was worried this blurb wouldn’t fit.

My writing style has always been like this. I’ll do my best to keep it serious. This story is set in a fictional world, and a very fictional one at that.

Please don’t nitpick the historical details. I won’t listen anyway.

Also, both leads have only ever been with each other.

Blurb saved as a screenshot on May 17, 2025.

Theme: Do you believe in the light? You are the light yourself.