The Powerful Man in the Period Novel’s Beloved Wife Gets a Fresh Start

1.

Everyone says Wen Nuan is blessed. So what if her family fell on hard times? With that stunning face, she could marry Mr. Chen first, then marry into the Sheng family, the richest family around, and spend her life in luxury. Anyone would envy her.

Whenever someone spoke in that sour, jealous tone, Wen Nuan would accept the compliment with an air of pride. She wasn't ashamed or insecure about relying on her looks, and she never pretended to be modest. She remained as flamboyant as ever.

In this life, she loved watching other people turn green with envy and jealousy, yet still have to flatter and fawn over her.

Well, relying on your looks takes a certain amount of capital.

2.

One year, the man who was rich enough to rival the gods took her back to the countryside where he'd grown up. The place was cramped and narrow, with muddy roads that were hard to walk on.

"Nuan, if you'd known me twenty years ago, you wouldn't have liked me."

Wen Nuan thought: Why wait twenty years? She didn't like him all that much even now.

Then she closed her eyes, opened them again, and found herself back in the early 1990s.

Her family still had a seven-figure bank balance, two cars, three villas, and two maids.

Her own brother had polished his leather shoes until they gleamed and dressed himself up to look respectable. He was about to head to a factory meeting.

Wen Nuan checked the date, took a deep breath, grabbed her brother by the tie, and shut him back in his room without a word.

Her brother pounded on the door in despair. "Are you crazy?"

Wen Nuan checked the accounts through the door without even looking up. "No. You are."

Today was the day someone would scam her brother out of more than a million yuan!

#What a waste of money#

The most she'd ever dared spend on a handbag was a hundred thousand!

Wen Nuan took her brother's bankbook and threw money into real estate investments; sweet-talked her mother into exposing her uncle's family's scam; hired people to audit the books and sent the vice president and finance manager to jail... Finally, she sold the factory her father had built with his own hands.

Her brother was forced to sign the papers. "I could still turn things around, you know."

Wen Nuan flipped through a fashion magazine. "Please be quiet. Thank you."

In her previous life, her brother had proved through blood and tears that #all the business acumen in their family died with their father#

3.

With enough property deeds to fill three boxes, Wen Nuan could finally live off her wealth without a care in the world.

But, for reasons she couldn't explain, she still took her newly purchased limited-edition handbag and walked in her water-sensitive lambskin shoes, carefully avoiding the crowds and puddles, all the way to an abandoned parking lot at the bus station.

There was a man there in a sleeveless shirt, a cigarette between his teeth, fresh from a fight. His face held none of the refined gentleness she knew, only a frosty glare and impatient restlessness.

"Why are you following me?"

Wen Nuan answered honestly. "I just... saw how poor you still are, and it put my mind at ease."

The man: ?

"Also, I bought this plot of land. Please pay the cleanup fee."

The man: ???

Also known as: #The Young Lady with a Script About Going Broke in a Period Novel Gets Even Richer#

A dirt-poor country boy who makes you want to send him money x a gorgeous young lady, a flower of wealth and privilege

Blurb screenshotted and saved on August 19, 2023

Completed works:

The Second Daughter in the Period Novel Went on a Rampage: After transmigrating into the villainous tycoon's ex-wife, she defies fate and changes her destiny.

The Little Seventh-Era Wife and Stepmother: A young stepmother makes waves in the 1970s, cooking delicious food and raising kids.

The Beloved Spicy Mama Raises Her Kids in the 1970s: A beautiful village girl marries a fierce poor man and becomes rich.

Back to the 1970s to Win His Favor: She returns to the 1970s, raises a child, takes up dancing, and rewrites her fate.

Content warnings:

1. This isn't a conventional pampered-wife story. The heroine is sickly but cunning and wicked, an expert at seeing through scumbags, tormenting them, and playing the innocent green tea act. She will never help anyone out of poverty.

2. The male lead knows her, and this isn't their first meeting, despite what the blurb says.

3. A fictional period slice-of-life story with a large ensemble cast.

4. The thoughts and values of all characters in this story do not represent the author's thoughts and values.

5. A bow of gratitude. Thank you!

Coming soon: My Dad Is a Speculator in a Classic Period Novel. If you like it, please add it to your collection~

Blurb:

No matter what kind of period novel it is, if it's set in a time of scarcity, the protagonists' fortunes always depend on speculators.

Zhang Wei's unreliable father was one of those speculators indispensable to every period novel. Unfortunately, he didn't live long enough, dying in his prime.

In the early 1970s, Zhang's father died of illness, leaving his only daughter a group of young underlings, a small house, several customers, and an enormous debt of 3,000 yuan.

Zhang Wei: How much?!

The moment she saw the IOU, Zhang Wei wanted to dig her father out of his coffin. Or, better yet, ask the old man to act like a decent person. No, a decent ghost, preferably one who'd take her with him that very night.

She lay in bed for three days. Her father never came floating by, but the creditor's knife did.

Zhang Wei rolled out of bed, clutching the customer list her father had left her, and promised over and over, "I'll pay you back, I'll pay you back. I'll make money and pay you right away!"

With no other choice, Zhang Wei had to sell her job to pay the interest and set out to contact her father's customers.

But it seemed her father hadn't told her that all those customers were just a little bit... odd.

The first customer to show up was a city girl, beautiful beyond compare and so delicate that the slightest touch left a bruise. Her skin was so tender that Zhang Wei kept a one-meter distance whenever they met, just to prove her innocence. Afterwards, she had to find someone to escort the girl home.

On a dark and windy night, who could feel at ease?

Just as Zhang Wei worried every day that the young underling escorting the beauty home might take advantage of her, a tall, intimidating man quietly appeared at the beauty's side. Apparently, he was the most formidable man in some military unit.

The man was fierce and brutal. Every time, he called her "Jiaojiao" in a uniquely low, hoarse voice, and now and then Zhang Wei could hear the beauty's soft whimpers.

Zhang Wei suppressed her excitement. "They're so cute together!"

She withdrew her concern and started casually recommending baby products to them.

At the very least, that had to mean twins, a boy and a girl, right?

The second customer was still young but had married a man ten years her senior. Though married, she was nimble-fingered and hardworking, and the cakes and other delicacies she made were one of a kind and always in high demand.

After Zhang Wei started working with her, she never ran out of pastries or candied fruit to sell.

But one day, she suddenly realized that this customer had only been married to her husband for six months, yet already had two clever, adorable boys. One was in kindergarten, and the other was about to start elementary school. The customer herself spent every day diligently memorizing vocabulary, rummaging through books at the dump, and saying things that hadn't happened yet.

Zhang Wei: ...Isn't something off here?

The third customer was in high spirits, but lately she'd seemed like a different person. She'd shed her former image as a timid, bullied young wife. Not only did she chase off her wicked mother-in-law with a stick, she even dared to catch her sister-in-law in the act with a married male educated youth.

Zhang Wei: ...Exciting.

One day, the customer arrived with a knife hidden in her basket and half a bloody pig slung over her shoulder, then dumped it in front of Zhang Wei.

"Wild boar meat. You buying?"

Zhang Wei quietly took half a step back and nodded without hesitation. By the way, they never ran out of meat to sell again after that.

The fourth customer was perfectly ordinary, except that whenever she gave their family's hen some water, the next day it would lay five eggs.

After Zhang Wei started working with her, she never ran out of eggs to sell.

But Zhang Wei still couldn't help asking, "Um, did your brother-in-law really sneak off into the cornfield with Widow Wang?"

The fifth customer was an adorable little girl. Though young, she was the only girl in her family for three generations and was doted on by everyone.

There was nothing special about the girl, except that she was especially, exceptionally, extraordinarily lucky. She'd find ginseng whenever she went up the mountain, and whenever she went out, she'd save some big shot.

One year, Zhang Wei even sold her house to buy all sorts of nourishing goods from the girl's family.

Yes, to buy them.

Also known as: #Those Years I Ran Around in Period Novels Like a Gloating Onlooker#; #My Daily Life Getting Rich Thanks to Powerful People Who Give Me a Lift#

Theme: Love life, and live bravely