The Abandoned Daughter Turned Merchant Queen

A disabled daughter, confined to the inner quarters, is cast out one day and left to wander the streets. By a twist of fate, the soul that was displaced returns. She is a modern woman who pursues profit in the business world, yet remains above the struggle for gain and loss. Invited to enter another’s soul to extend a life, she agrees gladly, for she has no attachments. And so begins her carefree life in ancient times. Making a living, romance, betrayal, friendship, and war suddenly erupt around her, but she is never truly hurt, because what she wants is always in her grasp. He is the eighth son of the ancient Rongcheng clan, the legitimate son of its main branch, revered as its head and entrusted with the family business. The moment he meets her in the business world, they recognize kindred spirits... As beautiful as jade, he may not inspire universal outrage, but he has kept women from seven or eight families too lovesick to eat or sleep. He is just the man for her. At first, she saves him. She sees him as a younger brother, but he chooses her as his partner. If there is no love, he will force it; if there is no fate, he will scheme to create it! He begins his bid for power one step at a time, and eventually rises from her younger brother to emperor, only for the two of them to become strangers. When she needs him to help her business flourish, she changes his rakish ways, only to waste half a lifetime in the process. P.S. The author’s casual style won’t change. I’m not very good at plotting, but I do know romance. Read at your leisure, and leave it to fate.