The Young Marquis Has a Soft Spot for Green Tea

In her previous life, when the fake heiress Xia Zhiyi lay dead in the wilderness, she repeatedly warned herself:

Why bother with fighting over the household? Why bother with romance? Wouldn't it be better to focus on building a career?

After being reborn, she boldly took action.

The pastry shops she founded spread throughout all of Tianning.

The spice recipes she came up with won the eager admiration of countless noblewomen.

Her business flourished at every turn.

Until one day, she met Li Ziqian, who had once done her the kindness of collecting her corpse.

This young marquis was handsome and extraordinarily talented, a famous eligible bachelor in Shengjing.

Yet he had spent years cultivating himself at a temple and avoided women like the plague.

Seeing him tormented by women who wouldn't leave him alone, she decided she had to save him from his troubles to repay his kindness.

But as she went on repaying that debt, the way this ascetic young marquis looked at her began to seem a little strange.

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At a banquet in the marquis's residence, the noble ladies joked about Xia Zhiyi's humble origins as a country girl.

There was no way she could argue against so many of them.

Seeing Li Ziqian walking over, Xia Zhiyi deliberately rubbed her eyes red and put on a pitiful look.

"A Qian, everyone says someone of low status shouldn't be here. I should just leave."

Li Ziqian took her hand and, while he was at it, slipped her an imperial edict written on bright yellow silk.

"Don't be afraid. From now on, you're the lady of the marquis's residence. If anyone's leaving, it'll be them."

The noble ladies' faces changed in an instant.

When Xia Zhiyi saw the two bold, sweeping characters announcing an imperial marriage decree, her vision went black.

...I came here thinking only of repaying your kindness, but you want me to sell myself?

2021.05.18

A scheming fake heiress with a sweet facade x a pure-hearted young marquis with a hidden side

Currently updating: From the Start, a Silver Tongue Is All You Need to Get Rich

Not long after transmigrating to an alternate era, Jiang Xia, a top real estate agent, was abducted by an assassination organization.

After finally escaping, she and her older brother ended up living in abject poverty.

Wild greens and steamed corn buns were everyday fare, and even a boiled egg had to be split in half.

Just as the siblings were about to be kicked out of their home and left to wander the streets, Jiang Xia plunged into the trade everyone looked down on most: working as a broker.

At first, everyone mocked a young girl for becoming a broker, saying she was debasing herself.

Later, with her silver tongue, she took on nineteen trades across Xichuan and became a renowned broker in the sixteen cities of the northern frontier.

The Western Regions, the northern tribes, the small nations of the Eastern Sea... Wherever there was business, her brokerage held sway.

She also became an honored guest of the rulers of six kingdoms, winning both fame and fortune.

People outside said her wealth rivaled that of an entire nation.

Jiang Xia smiled calmly. "Here's a tael of gold. Dream a little bigger."

A short extra scene:

Jiang Xia's life motto: Life is short, but making money never stops.

She heard that the young master of the city's Datong Bank was a good-hearted young man who got bullied every time he went out to collect debts.

Seeing a business opportunity, Jiang Xia volunteered: "Young Master Chen, don't worry. Hire me as your attendant, and there won't be a debt I can't collect!"

Later, as Jiang Xia began to recover her memories, Chen Guannan seemed strangely familiar to her.

Jiang Xia: "Have we met somewhere before?"

Chen Guannan: "You stole my family's heirloom jade pendant and chased me around like a dog. Do you think we've met before?"

Jiang Xia: "...All right, she finally remembered who this kid was."

A twice-daily short story: My Swordsmith Sister's Family Owns a Mine

One morning, weightlifter Su Yueqiao woke up and found that she had transmigrated.

Her elderly father was missing, the family was penniless, and her fiancé had just broken off their engagement. The only consolation was a dilapidated blacksmith shop.

Luckily, she was bound to an armory stocked with all sorts of high-grade, top-quality weapons and swords.

At a weapons appraisal fair, everyone waited to laugh at her.

Who could have guessed that she would first produce a Black-tier willow-leaf saber, then a Earth-tier fish-gut sword, leaving everyone dumbfounded?

In the days that followed, a steady stream of all kinds of top-quality weapons appeared in her shop. The crowds hoping to buy them nearly wore down the shop's doorstep.

Every swordsmith in the city fell silent.

They were all blacksmiths, so how was she the only one who could forge top-quality weapons?

Everyone in the martial world knew that the Demon Lord Wen Xinglie was as moody as they came and could wipe a major sect off the map with a snap of his fingers.

But nobody knew that his true form was a gold-swallowing beast.

He especially loved refining top-quality weapons into liquid and drinking it like black sesame soup.

At first, when his subordinates presented him with top-quality weapons from Su Yueqiao's shop, he scoffed.

"This tasteless scrap metal? Take it away!"

Later, to get his hands on a few more top-quality weapons, the Demon Lord even transformed into his original form and spent all day clinging to a certain woman's leg, begging her to hug him.

His subordinates: They just... couldn't bear to watch.

Theme: A girl should learn to stand on her own feet