Silken Secrets

/Outwardly warm, inwardly cool transmigrated woman who knows how to make money × repressed, scheming, dirt-poor fallen young gentleman

In her second month after transmigrating, Li Qiniang's father was driven to hang himself, leaving her and her mother alone and helpless.

Her maternal uncle and the clan members would stop at nothing to seize the family fortune.

No matter. Li Qiniang would make money and call in allies at the same time.

She beat the clan head into submission, then sent her uncle to prison, showing no mercy.

Her father's death left behind a ticking time bomb. While building connections with prominent families and high-ranking officials, Li Qiniang also recruited wandering knights and warriors to form a guard force.

She escaped assassination attempts by her enemies time and time again.

And while she was at it, she dealt with every last one of them.

She sent them to prison, or rooted them out for good, acting swiftly and decisively.

She never expected that one brief encounter at a funeral would win her the favor of the treasured young master of the current Censor-in-Chief's household.

He not only used his connections to ask about her,

he also went to great lengths to meet her and arrange chances for them to be alone together.

But the Censor-in-Chief held ironclad evidence that her father had betrayed his former master. To keep her mother and her followers from being implicated, Li Qiniang could only volunteer to enter his household as a servant, and spend some time growing closer to the young master.

Who could have known the Censor-in-Chief would be caught up in court infighting, falsely accused, and driven to take his own life, dragging his entire family down with him?

The once noble and peerless young master was left with a broken family and nothing to his name.

Fortunately, he had what it took: he could study, find powerful patrons, and, most importantly, make his way in the bureaucracy.

From a fallen young man whose family had lost everything, he rose step by step until he held power over the entire court.

But what the young master did best was be Li Qiniang's husband. He promptly brought her the imperial edict granting them permission to marry.

[Note: Both leads are each other's first and only partners. They grew up together and were childhood sweethearts.]

[Tip: This is a plot-driven novel. The male lead appears fairly late, and the romance starts even later. Please steer clear if that bothers you.]

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