After Breaking Off the Engagement, He Became the God of Wealth

When Shen Yan woke up, he became the most useless dandy in the Beihou Mansion in Dayong Town. The original owner had a notorious reputation and was heavily in debt. The only identity he could use was a marriage contract with the eldest princess Xiao Yuntang. But the eldest princess is in charge of the internal treasury and holds business taxes. She is cold and powerful. What she despises the most is a prodigal like Shen Yan who is just waiting to die. As the wedding approaches, Xiao Yuntang postpones the wedding in public, hoping to force Shen Yan to break off the engagement. Unexpectedly, instead of being angry, Shen Yan demanded compensation for reputational damage on the spot, and made a three-month bet: if he could make a hundred thousand taels from scratch, the princess's mansion would publicly break off the engagement; if he couldn't, he would obediently marry into his wife's princess's mansion. The whole capital was waiting to see his joke, but Shen Yan turned around and opened a "worry-relief shop", using modern marketing methods to stir up the capital. He sold ideas, wrote storybooks, set up memberships, opened a hotpot restaurant, made soap, established a chamber of commerce, and turned a small business that no one valued into a big business that made money every day. From the laughing stock of a dandy to the god of wealth in the capital, Shen Yan gradually broke the monopoly of the imperial merchants and gradually became involved in the undercurrents of the court such as internal treasury shortages, salt and iron corruption, military pay in the northern border, and the struggle for the crown prince. Xiao Yuntang originally thought that he was just opportunistic, but he discovered in repeated confrontations that Shen Yan seemed to be casual and absurd, but in fact he had a deep heart. He understood both business ethics and people's hearts, and was able to protect the interests of his family and country in crisis situations. The three-month contract expired, and Shen Yan earned enough 100,000 taels to finally break off the engagement. But this time, Xiao Yuntang was the one who wanted to break off the engagement and was unwilling to let go.