[Rags-to-Riches in the Streets + Political Intrigue + Feel-Good Wish Fulfillment + Building a Business + Food + No Male Lead + No Golden Finger]
“The day I transmigrated, the coffin had just been buried, and my three younger siblings were so hungry they were chewing bark!”
Overworked PhD Chang Qing opens her eyes in another world and sets up a hot-and-sour glass noodle stall to earn copper coins. Mooncake orders pour in, and her improved prickly ash sets off a citywide craze. An ancient-world business war? She’s playing on an entirely different level!
Who would have thought such staggering wealth would draw wolves circling around her?
“Someone’s been poisoned!” The moment a bully overturns her noodle stall, Chang Qing fires back by producing official certification from the local authorities.
She turns around, buys a shop, hires her cousin from the escort agency to sell glass noodles across the Nine Provinces, and happens to pick up a stunning beauty covered in blood.
Only after the beauty wipes off her disguise does Chang Qing learn the truth: “I am the Fourth Princess of the realm.”
Chang Qing glances at the evidence of the Crown Prince’s crimes in the other woman’s hand. “We can work together, but I want my glass noodles on tables across all the Nine Provinces.”
By the time the aroma of hot-and-sour noodles reaches the capital, Chang Qing’s glass noodle factories have spread across the river-trade wharves.
The empress on the dragon throne sends down an imperial decree: “Madam Lin, you are the only one fit to be the imperial merchant.”
From a noodle stall to a chain spanning the Nine Provinces, from rescuing a princess to making an empress, from a merchant’s daughter to a First-Rank Lady of the Imperial Household: who says a woman can’t wield a spatula like a sword and copper coins like armor, carving a path to the heavens through this dog-eat-dog world?
So here’s the question: if you return to the modern world with memories of ancient times, does that count as a cheat?
It's really good to watch. There aren't that many villains. Everyone is a flesh-and-blood person. If there is a conflict between the front leg and the back leg, they can still work together without any grudges. This is the true neighborliness 🥰 🥰