Is the Heiress of the Richest Man Farming Today?

An early work, to be heavily revised, updated whenever inspiration strikes.

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College student Liang Youning dies while volunteering and unexpectedly wakes up in ancient times as the heiress to the wealthiest family in Jiangnan, the sole heir to the Liang family's cloth business.

But right away, she receives a letter breaking off her engagement, along with a polite but pointed insult: as the daughter of a merchant, she's unworthy of the newly appointed chief councilor's son.

Liang Youning says, without the Liang family's support back then, who knows where he'd be begging for food now? What an ungrateful jerk. Fine! This engagement has to end!

After breaking it off, she takes charge of the family business and inspects its ancestral properties across the region. Qingpu County's warehouses are overflowing and its losses are severe, making it her top priority. Along the way, she unexpectedly unlocks the Lei Feng System.

Do good deeds like Lei Feng and help the people of ancient times escape poverty and prosper.

When she arrives in Qingpu County, she discovers that the mountain roads are rugged and transportation is poor.

So she waves her hand, donates money, and offers a plan to cut roads through the mountains.

Qingpu County has vast hills and not enough grain.

So she builds terraced fields to increase the harvest, then leads farmers in growing high-quality mandarins and finding markets for them.

Life is hard for the people of Qingpu County, and many are out of work.

So she establishes vocational schools, builds factories, and hires people to ease unemployment.

There are many poor children in Qingpu County with no way to get an education.

So she opens Hope Schools, waives tuition, helps students prepare for the imperial exams, and lets girls attend school too.

A year later, Qingpu County's people are healthy and prosperous, and the county has flourished. It becomes the country's leading model for poverty alleviation, while Liang Youning is revered as a living goddess of mercy and becomes famous throughout the land. She also leads the Liang family's cloth business to become an imperial supplier.

Her career is thriving. The only flaw is that the little beggar who clings to her like crazy turns out to be the chief councilor's eldest son, who was lost from the court.

Liang Youning loses her composure.

"Breaking off the engagement wasn't what I wanted. If you insist on marrying me, Sister, Meng Tian will take back the letter."

"..."

There's no need. Your father looks down on me for being a merchant's daughter.

Later, the little beggar comes top in the imperial exams and rapidly rises through the ranks. In just a few years, he pulls the chief councilor from his lofty position and takes his place, declaring that he will marry no one but Liang Youning, the imperial merchant.

Liang Youning: ?!

[Reading Guide]

1. One couple, both inexperienced in love, happy ending, sweet and satisfying.

2. Older woman-younger man romance, three-year age gap.

3. No real-life models. The setting is fictional, with many original details. Please don't overanalyze!

4. A positive, uplifting, easygoing story.

Theme: Do good deeds like Lei Feng.