Ming Dynasty Preschool Teacher: Making Money Is Much Harder Than Dating

She wakes up to find that she has become a young woman awaiting marriage in the Ming dynasty, living in a house so bare it has four walls and nothing else.

Her years working in a modern kindergarten taught her no skills in music, chess, calligraphy, or painting. Instead, she learned everything about calming children, planning games, telling stories, and handling difficult parents. With the clan elders pressuring her to marry and her mother in tears, she rolls up her sleeves and throws open the window facing the street. A perfect match for her skills? Then she'll open the greatest kindergarten in history!

But just as she sets her business plan in motion, the impoverished scholar next door keeps pouring cold water on her ambitions. “A woman running a business? What would people think?” Later, he becomes her chief accountant, and later still, he smiles wryly over the ledgers. “My dear, our revenue has doubled again this month.” Meanwhile, the very ladies who once mocked her are clamoring to enroll their children in her Elegant Wisdom Academy.

At first, Li Xiaolan thinks poverty will be the greatest challenge of her new life. Then she realizes that an even harder task than making money is convincing her brilliant but stubborn scholar partner that the most successful investment of his life isn't her business, but her.

This is the no-holds-barred tale of a modern kindergarten teacher turning the Ming dynasty upside down and, along the way, teaching a future Grand Secretary to go from a bookworm to a love-struck fool. A history of hard-nosed entrepreneurship, and of taming a husband.