I Refused the Crown Prince for a Scholar

Synopsis

Shu Ji'er is the only child of the richest man in the empire, which makes her family a fortune waiting to be taken. When the crown prince sends a eunuch to claim her as a consort, refusing means defying the throne and fleeing means being hunted to the ends of the earth. So she spends a hundred thousand taels of gold simply to buy one hour in front of the emperor, and asks for a public husband recruitment open to any man in the world. On one condition: whoever she chooses must marry into the Shu family.