After the Divorce, the Cold First-Rank Official Turns Red-Eyed and Pulls Me Close

[Strong heroine + household intrigue and face-slapping + business and money-making + groveling ex + adorable child + ensemble character growth] Shen Jiahe has only just transmigrated into the body of a Minister of Revenue’s legitimate daughter when she’s faced with becoming a pawn in a political marriage. Instead, she picks a young scholar she likes and sleeps with him, turning herself from a pawn into a player. But the young scholar is aloof and has no desire to become a live-in son-in-law. Shen Jiahe doesn’t cling to him or torment herself over it. She hands him divorce papers and compensation for the years she lost. Shen Jiahe leaves the capital for Jiangnan to start her money-making plans. She opens a bank, buys land, grows crops, invests in industries of all kinds, and acquires shares for a cut of the profits. With decisive action, she becomes the richest person in Jiangnan. Who would have thought that three years later, Shen Jiahe would be forcibly summoned back to the capital and promised in marriage? Her cheap father claims he can’t bear to see her alone and helpless, and insists she live like a proper woman, tending to her husband and raising children. Shen Jiahe silently rolls her eyes. Aunt Hong and her illegitimate half-sister Shen Jiayi can’t stand to see Shen Jiahe doing well. They’re determined to ruin the match and even plot to catch her in bed with another man, so that she’ll never be able to marry. Shen Jiahe plays along in silence. Go for it! I believe in you! Who can tell her why the lover Shen Jiayi arranged is actually her ex-husband? The young scholar from back then has made a name for himself and risen to become the Grand Secretary? Shen Jiahe wipes the drool from the corner of her mouth. Now that’s a brilliant move. You’ve even dared to send the Grand Secretary himself to my bed. But why has the once aloof man turned so cunning and clingy? One day, Shen Jiahe is backed into a corner, and the Grand Secretary whispers coaxingly, “Why don’t you turn around and look at me?” Shen Jiahe replies coolly, “Whether I turn around or not is beside the point. I want to crush the capital’s richest man and become the richest person in the whole country!”