Debt of the Jade Pendant

[Contract lover + sweet romance + love at first sight + love that grows over time + business]

[Spirited, clever young merchant woman vs. naive genius heir]

After her parents died, Yu Yiner prepared to find a husband so her clan couldn't divide up the cloth shop and embroidery business her parents had built with their own hands.

As luck would have it, she found a handsome young man in the river just then. He seemed a little dim, though.

With no other choice, she used the life debt he owed her as leverage, tricked him by claiming he owed her money, and made him her husband for three months.

But for some reason, the husband who used to cling to her suddenly stopped, and her heart began to feel strangely empty.

This isn't how things are supposed to go...

Qin Shuo thinks that besides his parents and two younger brothers, A Yin is the nicest person in the world! She feeds him, clothes him, and even lulls him to sleep at night.

If he could, he would stay with A Yin forever. But A Yin says he can only be her little husband for three months.

The servants say that a little husband is a concubine, not the principal wife. Only the principal wife gets to stay with A Yin forever.

So Qin Shuo starts working from dawn till dusk, determined to become A Yin's principal husband!

Reader's guide:

1. One-on-one romance, happy ending, light comedy, fictional setting, no need to fact-check

2. The heir is foolish in the beginning. After he's cured, he takes the scheming, obsessive older-man route

3. Part of a series. The other two stories are From Fallen Woman to Good Woman and The Beauty's Face

Theme: Growth and redemption, independence and self-reliance. In business as in life, be honest, keep your word, and honor your agreements