Since Jiang Mingxi’s rebirth, she has had only three troubles.
First, when dressed as a man, she was too handsome and too capable. Countless influential figures saw her as a promising talent and wanted to marry their daughters to her.
Second, after returning to her female identity, she found herself married to the wrong men—her first husband was so virtuous that he kept trying to push other men into her bed, while her second husband was so petty that he constantly competed with her close male friends for her attention.
Third, the nation was impoverished and weak, the economy was sluggish, and even her fellow villagers had no surplus grain to eat.
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‘Sigh,’ Jiang Mingxi thought. ‘Men only slow down my money-making speed. As for women… well, my career must come first.’
But with imperialist powers dividing and invading from the outside, and natural disasters plaguing the country from within, making money in the Republic era was harder than climbing to the heavens!
Jiang Mingxi smiled faintly. ‘If our own people have no money, foreigners certainly do. And taking money from foreign devils—how can that be called cheating? That’s called striking a blow against imperialism and supporting the development of our national economy.’
***
Later generations would comment on Jiang Mingxi like this—
A historian said: “Jiang Mingxi was truly a legend. From a maid who had signed away her freedom with a selling contract, she fought her way to becoming a world-renowned business tycoon. Such a great leap across social classes is almost unheard of.”
A linguistics professor said: “Ms. Jiang was a linguistic genius. She was not only fluent in more than twenty dialects from across the country, but also in over a dozen foreign languages.”
A marketing blogger said: “Guys, you won’t believe this—Jiang Mingxi turned out to be the founding mother of modern Chinese advertising! She was an absolute marketing genius. Everything in our domestic advertising industry today is just her old tricks recycled.”
A certain entrepreneur said: “In the current wave of Chinese goods going overseas, anyone wanting to do business with foreigners must read Ms. Jiang Mingxi’s autobiography. Even if you can only grasp one-tenth of her wisdom, it will be enough to make your product sell worldwide.”
A relationship influencer said: “Jiang Mingxi was the real definition of a wish-fulfillment female lead. In her lifetime, men loved her, women loved her, and friends, confidants, and husbands alike all scrambled to hand her their wealth. How can one person live so delightfully?”
