After Breaking the Engagement, I Bought a Stunning Power-Player as My Husband for Eight Hundred Taels

Jin Yu, the daughter of the wealthiest merchant in Jinling, is stunningly beautiful and possesses wealth that rivals a nation.

On the day of her engagement, her fiancé, a self-proclaimed high-minded scholar, rejected her in public: “A merchant’s daughter reeks of copper; how could she be worthy of the integrity of a scholar like me?”

Jin Yu laughed. She turned around and burned a priceless rare book, then pointed at a destitute, starving, yet breathtakingly beautiful scholar by the roadside:

“You. Eight hundred taels. Come with me and be my live-in son-in-law.”

Everyone laughed at Jin Yu for being insane, buying a useless piece of tr*sh who was good for nothing but his face.

Little did they know, that scholar, Chen Yinyu, was a fragile, helpless “white lotus” in front of others. When wronged, he would only hide behind Jin Yu and whimper: “Wife, they are so fierce, I’m scared…”

Yet, behind the scenes, he was a ruthless, top-tier mastermind—possessing a photographic memory and a strategy for every contingency!

He helped her deal with toxic relatives, crushed her vicious ex, and expanded the Jin family’s business across all thirty-six provinces of the Great Jing!

Later, in the Golden Palace, the top-ranking scholar Chen Yinyu rejected the Emperor’s offer of marriage.

He knelt before the throne, looking innocent and frank: “Your subject has a weak stomach; I can only survive on the Jin family’s handouts for the rest of my life.”

The entire court: …Is that your reason for filling the national treasury to the brim?