The God of Wealth's Wife Starts Out as a Widow

Upcoming: A Happy and Harmonious Family. The blurb is at the end.

"A money-mad, power-hungry capitalist vs. a gentle-looking, obsessive genius physician."

She wants to amass wealth and rule the world. He becomes more and more devoted, laying everything at her feet. Also known as A Lonely Marriage from the Start, Wealthy Enough to Be a Legend and Here Comes the Goddess of Wealth.

--- Blurb ---

Transmigration always happens without warning.

One second, Lu Sang sang was calculating her assets, which were close to nine figures. The next, her plane plunged out of the sky, and she transmigrated.

Transmigration stories promise handsome men all around and a golden finger. Isn't a life of easy wins supposed to come standard?

But reality hit her with a face-slapping blow: no System, no memories, and no way to communicate.

Could there be a worse start?

Yes: a start with none of the three, plus an "official husband" who never came home.

A life of living as a widow was...

Perfect for making money!!!

Unfortunately, people suspected she was mentally ill and effectively confined her to the inner quarters.

To get out and make money, she took advantage of the situation and got involved in the household's internal struggle. Without even meaning to, she foiled one plot after another, infuriating her rivals and impressing her husband's family.

So her husband's family hoped she'd stay within the household, support her husband, raise their children, and put her talents to work for them. Her birth family wanted her to keep her head down and live out her life in peace.

But she refused.

She went from fighting over the household to taking on the whole world. From an ordinary married woman to receiving a first-rank title, an unprecedented honor for a woman, before her husband had even become an official. She built her fortune from nothing and reshaped the wealth of her era.

Some waited for her to crash and burn. Others waited for the gentry to shut her down. Still others waited for her to fall amid the storm of reform.

But what they heard in the end was that her wealth had doubled, that powerful court officials treated her as an honored guest, and that even the emperor had to rely on her wisdom to keep the country stable.

The history books tried to erase her, but they couldn't stop ordinary people from calling her the "Goddess of Wealth." The legend spread from street to street and across the land, surviving through dynasties and generations.

Li Linzhu, heir to a family with a century-old medical tradition, could pass the imperial examinations and save patients on the brink of death. A gentleman in public who devoted himself to healing others, he was privately obsessed with just one thing: studying the dead.

Well, now he had something else to study: his wife, who had fallen into the water.

He studied her undisguised desires, her boldness in doing as she pleased, how she shattered her shackles and kept defying everyone's gleeful expectations.

The more he studied her, the more obsessed he became.

There was just one problem: why was his wife always thinking about divorcing him?

Reading Guide:

1. The male lead is somewhat of a supporting character. His main role is to provide emotional support.

2. The leads have independent career arcs. The story mainly focuses on the female lead's career, with the fun of leveling up and defeating one challenge after another.

3. The setting is the late Northern Song Dynasty, during the controversial final years of Wang Anshi's reforms. The two factions are deeply divided over whether "using the power of the world to create wealth for the world" will amount to "competing with the people for profit." The female lead's career arc offers an answer, while also revealing what the author believes was the fatal flaw behind the reforms' failure. This is only the author's subjective analysis and is included to serve the story.

4. The plot includes real historical figures, but the characters who appear are mainly their family members. Please kindly point out any inaccuracies.

--- A Happy and Harmonious Family ---

Huo Ru is a disgrace to the world of villain conquest Systems.

Thirty-seven conquests, thirty-seven failures.

There's only one reason: she's too busy shipping couples to focus on her conquests!

The male and female leads are so sweet!

The female lead and the second male lead are the best!

Ahhh! The female lead and the second female lead are my OTP!

The villain really does love the female lead!

Mission completion? Never heard of it.

As her points dwindled, the mission worlds she was assigned to grew more and more obscure.

So for her thirty-eighth mission, she was dumped into a forgotten niche genre: wuxia.

Her target was Shen Yi, the great villain who had slaughtered the martial world and wiped out the wuxia heroes.

But there was a problem.

The System got the timing wrong and dropped her fifteen years into the past. Its authority was reduced, all its skills were disabled, and it had even been forced into silence!

The System was falling apart, but it couldn't say a word. All it could do was watch Huo Ru as she:

Spent all her points saving the wrong "mom," who turned out to be a martial arts prodigy hunted by the greatest sect.

Used the wrong skill and mistook the wrong person for her "dad," who turned out to be a top-ranked assassin who had retired from the killing business.

Called a "little punk" on the street a name, only for him to be taken home by his parents and become her little brother.

Ah! This is the future villain who will slaughter the entire martial world! How could he possibly be content with just being her little brother?

The System: "What kind of ultimate world-destroying family have you put together?!"

Huo Ru: "Where's my System? Where did my System go?"

Her assassin father took up blacksmithing, her genius mother went hunting, and the future villain was forced to use his special vision to get rid of pests on the fruit trees.

As for Huo Ru, she spent her days working in the fields and hills, eating homegrown fruit, wearing clothes made by her parents from the skins of wild beasts, shipping her parents, and occasionally teasing her "little brother." Life couldn't be better.

But the hills behind the house seemed to have terrible feng shui. Any martial artist who set foot there died. One came and died alone, two came and died together, and a whole group came and died in a heap.

Just as the System was racking its brains to warn her that all of this was the work of the family she called her own, Huo Ru accidentally turned it into a pig.

Never mind. Whatever. Let's all destroy the world together!

Theme: Use the world's resources to create wealth for the world, and use the world's wealth to relieve the world's suffering