After Reincarnating as a Concubine's Daughter, I Got Rich Running a Housekeeping Company

My next modern romance will be The Last Letter. The blurb is at the very bottom. Please add it to your favorites, and I'll be ever so grateful~

After four years working in housekeeping, Yu Nian transmigrates and becomes a nobleman's illegitimate daughter in ancient times, bullied and humiliated by everyone.

A marriage contract says her stepmother will marry her off as a concubine to a fifty-year-old man. Yu Nian would rather die than submit, so she's thrown out and sent thousands of miles away to Linyang to fend for herself.

With no money and no food, Yu Nian returns to her old line of work and uses the System to start a housekeeping business.

You think housekeeping just means cleaning and tidying up?

Yu Nian: Don't underestimate me!

The girls at a music house can't organize their belongings, the place is filthy and chaotic, and they don't even know how to put outfits together. With the business on the brink of closing, Yu Nian becomes a professional organizer. Her eye for aesthetic displays solves their storage problems, and she also gives the place a complete makeover by rethinking the girls' styles, colors, and outfits. The music house takes on a whole new look, and soon it's packed with distinguished guests.

A wealthy gentleman's daughter has been left with lingering health problems after childbirth. She often suffers from headaches after catching a chill, feels cold because of a weak stomach, and is constantly downcast. No doctor has been able to help. Yu Nian, postpartum steam therapy specialist, steps in. Steam baths help rid the body of toxins, improve circulation, replenish vital energy and blood, dispel chills, burn fat, and relieve stress, so women no longer have to suffer from postpartum ailments.

After a serious illness, an elderly person becomes bedridden, and their health steadily declines. Yu Nian takes on the role of wellness consultant, devising a personalized health plan through methods such as calming the mind and adjusting the diet. She also makes sure to exercise with the senior every day. The result? They live to the ripe old age of ninety-nine.

The prince has some spare money, and Yu Nian can do the work of ten people. She manages her employer's daily expenses, sets aside emergency funds, secures the children's education funds, considers market demand and future prospects when investing in insurance, and continually evaluates how to adjust the family's asset allocation. She's a family financial planner.

Yu Nian quickly becomes the most sought-after person around, a favorite among the powerful and influential. Her business keeps booming until she's practically counting silver in her sleep. She opens a housekeeping company and uses the System to help women, passing on all her skills and creating jobs for them, so they can escape the needless suffering caused by feudal thinking.

When her family, thousands of miles away, hears that Yu Nian has made something of herself, they rush to bring her home and treat her well. Looking at her cheap father, crying and repenting while trying to smooth things over, the sisters who always competed with her, and the stepmother who once tried to marry her off to an old man, Yu Nian looks at them with disdain.

You want to ride my coattails? Not a chance.

Ji Xingzhou is a celebrated young marquis of the Great Ning Dynasty. After an assassination attempt in Linyang, he lies seriously wounded by the roadside, where a woman in blue finds him.

As they spend time together, he gradually falls for her. He also grows more and more certain that he's seen her somewhere before. When he gets a portrait brought by his attendant, he's stunned for a long time.

On a moonlit night, Ji Xingzhou corners Yu Nian against a wall and says pitifully, "I'm not that bad, am I? Why would you rather die than marry me?"

Yu Nian glances at the portrait in his hand, then at Ji Xingzhou, and seems to understand.

Yu Nian: ...Weren't you supposed to be bald, covered in fat, and in your fifties?

The Last Letter:

It was a letter she sent him, a love letter confessing her feelings;

and also the last letter.

A favored son of heaven X a sensitive girl

Unrequited love / Bad ending

Theme: Erasing occupational prejudice