My Husband Dies on Our Wedding Night, So This Occult Villainess Goes on a Rampage

[Republican-era setting + strong heroine + stone gambling + a touch of mysticism + cross-dressing]

Tuo Ba Xi, a 21st-century prodigy in antiques appraisal, gets into a car accident on her way to an archaeological dig and transmigrates into a book as a cannon-fodder character who supposedly brings a warlord to his death by stepping through the door with her right foot...

Now she has no choice but to live through perilous times, change her name and identity, and evade a manhunt.

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A strange stall appears outside the largest stone-gambling market in Spring City.

The stall has nothing but a scrap of cloth and a simple cardboard sign reading “Antiques Appraisal, Stone Gambling.”

The stall is shabby, but the prices are anything but.

While other people’s rough stones cost just a few hundred silver dollars, his stones go for thousands, tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands!

Other people’s antiques come at various prices, with some starting at a few dozen Yuan Shikai silver dollars, but hers still cost thousands, tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands!

Passersby curse her for being a heartless profiteer, but customers who have bought from her all rush to her defense.

“Every rough stone from Boss Xi is guaranteed to yield jade! Worth every penny!”

“Boss Xi’s antiques are all treasures, and her prices are a bargain!”

Those who haven’t bought from her: “You’re obviously shills!”

Those who have: “Boss Xi, please don’t ever close up shop! What would I do without you?”

The reborn male lead, who often passes by and makes a point of showing his face to Boss Xi, wonders: Does she really think I haven’t figured out that she’s the woman I love, disguised as a man?

(She disguises herself as a man to evade her pursuers, not because she insists on wearing men’s clothes.)