I Claimed All the Hot Searches in the Capital

Scheming marketing genius heroine × calculating intelligence chief hero

Zhao Yu transmigrated into a book, becoming the bankrupt owner of a run-down restaurant drowning in debt.

No System, no golden finger, just a mountain of debt and a crowd of old-fashioned locals waiting to laugh at her.

Zhao Yu: "...Fine. If I don't have a golden finger, I'll make one myself."

She soon discovered that people in ancient times were much easier to fool than modern people.

To pay off her debts, she had no choice but to return to her old line of work: marketing!

Using modern marketing techniques, Zhao Yu turned her failing restaurant into the first "marketing firm" in ancient times. Its services included crafting public personas, crisis management, and manufacturing buzz, all under the slogan: "Once the silver is paid, the package is your choice!"

No one betting on Qi Yunjian in the polo match?

No problem. She hired online shills to build hype, opened the betting at a high price, and made a fortune.

A down-and-out scholar no one cared about?

With one makeover, he became a "forgotten gem of the literary world." His poetry collection sold out overnight, and the scholar knelt to thank her for giving him a new life.

A noble young lady caught in a scandal?

She planned a "reversal and rehabilitation" campaign, and public opinion changed in an instant. The young lady tearfully gave her a hundred taels of gold.

Then one day, the playboy Qi Yunjian, whom she'd been using as a money-making tool, came to see her.

"Boss Zhao, want to partner up? We'll split it fifty-fifty. I'll bring the connections, and you bring the dirty tricks."

Zhao Yu: "Who'd want to partner with you... Wait, you can introduce me to imperial merchants?"

Zhao Yu smiled as she counted her money. "Tell me, Young Master Qi, what do you want to promote? Your poetic talent? Your devotion? Or the image of a reformed playboy?"

Qi Yunjian chuckled. "No. What I want to promote is the fate of the capital itself."

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But no matter how you look at it, a marketing account is bound to have a disastrous flop sooner or later.

A Jiangnan cloth shop paid her a fortune to promote its goods. As usual, she praised them to the skies. But when people bought the products and discovered that the real thing was nothing like the advertisement, the furious crowd nearly smashed up her restaurant.

Zhao Yu gritted her teeth and offered up everything she owned. "Tenfold refunds for counterfeits!"

The losses made her heart bleed.

Qi Yunjian leaned against the doorway and watched her. "Now do you understand that there are some kinds of money you shouldn't make?"

Zhao Yu sniffled. "...Shut up."

Only later did Zhao Yu learn that the man was a playboy on the surface, but secretly the mastermind controlling the capital's underground intelligence network!

And she had, without meaning to, become his most powerful "partner."

The powerful and wealthy soon realized that anyone Zhao Yu "marketed" either rose to great heights or was utterly ruined.

And the most arrogant Young Master Qi was perfectly willing to bow down to her.

"Boss Zhao, what do you want to promote this time?" he murmured. "How about a rumor that Qi Yunjian is madly in love with Zhao Yu?"

[Content Notes]

1. The heroine is a genuinely unscrupulous merchant from the start, but she will develop a conscience.

2. The hero seems like a playboy, but is actually a secret pawn of the imperial court.

3. The story focuses on the business plot, with a slow-burn romance.

Theme: Use intelligence to break through a deadlock, and integrity to make your way in the world