Beauty of Jiangnan

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Su Jinyan, a merchant's daughter, is married off by her family to a powerful aristocratic household in the capital. But her husband treats her coldly, and her in-laws look down on her. She doesn't wallow in self-pity. Instead, she understands her own heart and ambitions, and chooses to divorce him.

After the divorce, Su Jinyan puts her intelligence to work in business. She opens shops, buys tea plantations, and becomes a supplier to the imperial court. Her business grows and grows until she becomes an extremely wealthy businesswoman.

In the end, she uses her wealth and connections to provide disaster relief, help the people, and restore local livelihoods, solving a difficult problem for the court. The people praise her, and the emperor rewards her. When she returns to the capital, the merchant's daughter everyone once looked down on has become a heroine admired by all.

A cool, elegant beauty from Jiangnan × a capital playboy who says one thing but means another

Su Jinyan, a beauty from Jiangnan, is blessed with an intoxicating fragrance and such extraordinary looks that she outshines the city. For the sake of restoring her family's place at court, they send her a thousand miles away to marry into another family. Her future husband is Yuchi Jin, heir to the Duke of Jing's estate, a man of striking bearing and renowned throughout the capital.

It doesn't matter. Whoever you marry, you're married. I'll make the best of it.

Yuchi Jin has nothing but disdain for marrying the daughter of a fallen clan. Luckily, she is quite pretty. It doesn't matter to him either. Whoever he marries, he marries. He can just think of her as another person to keep in his household.

Too young to understand love, he kept crossing her boundaries, always assuming she would continue to put up with it for her family.

Until one day, he brought home his maternal cousin, who had just lost both her parents, and told Su Jinyan that he intended to take her as his secondary wife.

She smiled meekly and agreed.

At the time, it all seemed perfectly ordinary.

Later, she left behind divorce papers and disappeared.

Afterward:

After divorcing him, Su Jinyan opened shops, bought tea plantations, and became an imperial merchant. Her business grew and grew.

Meanwhile, Yuchi Jin realized that winning his wife back was getting harder and harder. TAT

(This is the story of a merchant's daughter in ancient times who strives to build a splendid life for herself.)

"Content warnings"

1. We recommend starting from the beginning. The male lead gets his comeuppance in the early chapters, and later has to chase his wife through hell. The female lead won't be put through any misery, so don't worry about giving this a try.

2. One couple, both with no prior sexual partners. The male lead never had feelings for his cousin and never married her.

3. Set in a fictional historical world, with a melodramatic pregnancy-and-flight plotline. Read with caution if that bothers you.

(This blurb was registered on 2021.01.23.)

Theme: Be self-reliant and take the helm of your own life.