A Miser to the Core

Shen Mingheng, the legitimate daughter of a Jiangnan sauce-making family, sees her entire household framed and her family business seized. With nothing but her silver tongue, an abacus, and a vat of aged sauce, she fights her way from street-corner sales back to the price-setting assembly. Within three years, she makes the four merchant houses that crushed the Shen family repay every last coin, with interest, and wins back Yunzhou's power to set sauce prices.