The Fierce Butcher's Daughter and Her Pampered Scholar

In her previous life, Su Xiao defied her family's objections and married Lü Qinghe, a scholar from their village. She sold meat and hunted to support him until he passed the provincial exam. That very night, the scoundrel brought a concubine into their home. Only then did Su Xiao realize that he had never respected her because she was a butcher's daughter, and had married her only to get his hands on her family's wealth.

Reborn, Su Xiao swore she would never make the same mistake again. She cut ties with the scoundrel, farmed and hunted, built her wealth, and became the richest woman in the prefectural city. She owed Yuan Xiangliu a great debt of gratitude from her previous life, and while focusing on her business, she only meant to repay him as a favor. She never expected to become entangled in a romance. She had sworn never to get involved with another scholar, yet she still supported Yuan Xiangliu all the way from the lowest civil-service degree to the top scholar's title, as he swept all three levels of the imperial examinations. On the day he reached the pinnacle of power as chief grand secretary, Yuan Xiangliu still took her hand in the street and called her his wife. Only then did Su Xiao understand: in her previous life, she had chosen the wrong man, not the wrong status.