Zhu Sui transmigrates into a military family on the northern frontier of the Western Han. Her father is a low-ranking soldier stationed at the border, while her mother stays home mending the soldiers' clothes to earn a little extra. She also has two younger siblings who are still toddlers.
At home, the rice jar is almost empty, and the purse rattles with only a few coins...
Her younger siblings are desperate for meat, and she wants to buy herself a fashionable new ruqun, too.
So Zhu Sui decides to return to her old line of work: trade.
Drawing on her former talents, she gradually builds her business into something big.
She has it all: spices and fruit from the Western Regions, fine horses from Dayuan, leather and feathered banners from the Western Sea, red pomegranates from Tashkent, and fire-resistant cloth from Rome. Even the great merchants of Chang'an are scrambling to buy from her.
Green-eyed foreigners with bushy beards keep asking when the gold and silk from Guanzhong will arrive. They want to buy even more!
And her family's life gets better and better.
Theme: Live well.
