The Splendid Garden

The rags-to-riches story of an abandoned girl

When she woke up, she discovered that she had become her father’s abandoned daughter. Her father had married into a wealthy family, and to erase any trace of the wife and child he’d had before, he tried to wipe them out. After that failed, he bribed a local gentryman, who sent her to a temple as a sacrificial offering to feed the snakes.

After being rescued, she used a miraculous space she’d acquired by chance to grow medicinal herbs and make pills, building a fortune and becoming a major medicine merchant in a prosperous age. The wealthy queen of the Western Regions’ women-only kingdom regarded her as a benefactor; Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui accepted her as their younger sister; Li Shimin became her friend; even her father’s princess wife had to curry favor with her, and the officials all sought to win her over. She would make her father regret abandoning her and her mother, the greatest mistake he had ever made.