Transported into a Gangster's Den? I'll Raise a Household of Powerful Officials

Li Yaoyao transmigrated.

The moment she opened her eyes, she had become the least important royal clanswoman in the Beixuan Dynasty, the youngest daughter of the General Who Assists the State's household.

The original owner was spoiled and domineering, bullied the old and the young, and flirted with handsome men. This lovely young lady had a thoroughly ruined reputation, and her whole family was despised by everyone!

Her father was a good-for-nothing who spent his days watching cockfights and walking dogs;

Her eldest brother ran with street gangs and took what he wanted by force;

Her second brother was all brawn, bullying men and forcing himself on women;

Her third brother was full of crooked schemes and led the family in all manner of misdeeds;

Even the household's sixty-year-old servant would swindle a vegetable seller out of a bunch of greens and two copper coins.

They were dirt poor, left with no choice but to give up and await their doom. Before long, they would be exiled to guard the imperial tombs.

Li Yaoyao gave a mighty shudder and was forced to take up the banner of saving herself!

She found her father a formidable second wife to help hold the family together;

She secured her eldest brother a post as a personal guard to the emperor;

She won her second brother the chance to enlist and earn military honors;

She nurtured her third brother's talents and sent him to the Imperial Academy, steadily putting the household in order and turning their fortunes around.

The city's four notorious troublemakers became pillars of the court, and the family rose all the way to the highest ranks of the nobility.

Just as life was finally looking up, a strapping young general, eight feet tall with a broad back and narrow waist, came swaggering over to break off their engagement!

Li Yaoyao was furious. With her reputation as a wicked woman, and not a fortune of gold to her name, did he think he could just break off the engagement with a pretty boy like him?

From then on, the young general applied himself with all his might, intent on saving enough money to buy back his freedom.

Three years later, Rong Zhao, now commander of the Imperial Guard, arrived holding ten thousand taels of gold, brimming with confidence. “Here are ten thousand taels of gold. Let's set a date for our wedding.”

Li Yaoyao smiled as she waved the marriage contract. “I'll take the gold, but now I'm the one breaking off the engagement.”

The Li brothers could only sigh. “If you weren't grinning so hard, we'd believe you.”