The Timely General Store: When Qin Shi Huang and Emperor Wu Come Shopping

[Female-Oriented + No Romance + Historical Fiction] Ying Shi thought her aunt had left her a run-down little grocery store. Then visitors from another world arrived, opening the door to trade between the past and present! Emperor Wu of Han clung to a jar of coffee beans in the snack aisle. “This marvelous drink keeps one alert. Send me ten carts’ worth!” Emperor Taizong of Tang held up his phone to show her the digital edition of the Zhenguan Zhengyao. “Could you carve this book onto bamboo slips? I want to distribute it to my ministers as their KPIs!” The most outrageous was Qin Shi Huang, who brought an entire cart of bronze swords just to trade for half her copy of Modern Management. “The accounts at the Xianyang Palace are harder to calculate than my Great Wall!” Only when her grocery store became a “hub through time” linking different dynasties did Ying Shi discover that the bronze sundial her aunt had left behind concealed a shocking secret. Every dynasty she had “treated” to modern goods was undergoing dramatic changes in places she could not see: Qin craftsmen used glass to build a “Crystal Palace” that reflected the light. Han merchants opened a new Silk Road, carrying paper and soap. Even Li Qingzhao sat in the grocery store and cried as she read the whole Dream of the Red Chamber, then turned around and wrote, “Row, row! Startling a flock of gulls from the shore, plus!” “Welcome to Ying Shi’s Grocery Store. We don’t sell regret-reversing pills, but we do sell miracles that can turn any world around. All you have to do is pay an equal price in antiques, skills, or perhaps your story?”