A Senior Executive's Life as a Servant in Ancient Times

Important! [Upcoming stories: A Small-Time Prince's Farming Life] and [When the Sweet and Innocent Heroine Sees the Comments on Screen]. Please add them to your reading list! Huo Jinbo transmigrates into the body of a servant boy belonging to Commandery Princess Le Yi. He plans to get his indenture papers first and figure out the rest later, but by a twist of fate, he earns Emperor Yongkang's favor. He goes straight from being a lowly servant to an official of the imperial court. After discovering Huo Jinbo's unusual insights into economic development, the emperor assigns him to the Ministry of Revenue to increase the court's income and fill the treasury. It doesn't take long for the officials at the Ministry of Revenue to realize that the new Lord Huo is one of a kind. He assigns a task to everyone, even clerks without official rank, yet spends his own days taking it easy. The Ministry's officials regard Huo Jinbo as a blight and repeatedly look for a chance to drive him out. They never find one, but thanks to Huo Jinbo's reforms, the imperial treasury grows richer and richer... Just as Huo Jinbo is working toward becoming a marquis and a high-ranking minister, a woman suddenly appears and claims that he is a prince who was lost among the common people and will one day ascend the throne. She also says she has admired him for a long time. Even if he has three thousand beauties in his harem someday, she won't mind and is willing to be the woman who understands him. Commandery Princess Le Yi gives him a knowing smile. "Three thousand beauties in your harem?" Without a second thought, Huo Jinbo orders someone to drag the madwoman away and says sternly, "You can't trust a madwoman's words." What prince? That's complete nonsense. And as if that weren't enough, she's spreading rumors that he's a womanizer. She deserves to die. [Bonus Scene] Cheng Hanling is bold in love and hate. When she likes someone, she doesn't hide it. As soon as she realizes she likes Huo Jinbo, she tells him outright. Huo Jinbo merely says he understands, then turns and walks away. The next day, her personal maid enters the Bui Rui Hall carrying a stack of storybooks. "Your Highness, Chief Steward Huo wrote these stories especially for you." Cheng Hanling picks them up and sees that their titles are all rather similar: The Heartless Top Scholar Who Abandoned His Poor Wife The True Face of a Devoted Gentleman He Cast Aside His Wife and Child After His Father-in-Law Promoted Him Cheng Hanling: "..." He wrote all these overnight. He really went to a lot of trouble. [Reading Guide] 1. One man and one woman, exclusive pairing. 2. Neither lead is a good person. The heroine is genuinely arrogant, domineering, and ill-tempered. If that bothers you, don't read. 3. The names of the jewelry, clothing, pastries, and buildings in the story are all sourced from Baidu. [Upcoming story: A Farming Life After I Transmigrated as the Heroine's Beloved White Moonlight]. Please add it to your reading list! After dying from overwork, Yun Xuze transmigrates into the body of an obscure prince who nearly starved to death. Before he can collect himself, he realizes he's transmigrated into a book. The original owner was the heroine's beloved white moonlight, but he had a short life and died young at just twenty. His cause of death was the struggle for the throne. The day after Yun Xuze arrives is the original owner's twentieth birthday. Yun Xuze: "..." To avoid his destined death, Yun Xuze moves to a country estate as soon as he comes of age. There, he sets about farming and building on a grand scale: He turns the hills behind the estate into orchards and greenhouses for growing vegetables. When he learns that many tenant farmers freeze to death every winter because they can't afford charcoal, he develops coal briquettes and coal stoves. He wants to build extensively around the estate, but is told the costs are too high. Without hesitation, he sets up a modern brick kiln and produces bricks himself to cut costs. Much later, Yun Xuze looks at the thriving little town he's built and sighs up at the sky. All he wanted at first was to stay alive and make a little money for retirement. [Completed stories by the same author] The Phoenix Man's Path to Pampering His Wife (Book Transmigration): Once he starts pampering his wife, he never looks back. The Elite Man Wins the Princess's Favor: If being a kept man is this good, why not enjoy it? A Beloved Concubine's Daily Life with Cats: A red thread of fate tied by a cat. Theme: Love begins without our knowing, then sinks deep and never fades.