Cut It Out, I Just Want to Sell Things

Lu Guichen has a modest goal: turn his grocery store, Dust and Peace, into a chain across the ancient capital of a fantasy world, and raise the younger siblings he took in until they’re grown. Every day, he works the abacus, repairs pots and pans, and stocks unusual goods. He also puts a few “little tips” from his previous life to use: optimizing inventory with statistics, settling neighborhood disputes with psychology, and improving farm tools with basic physics. Life should have been peaceful and prosperous. Until · When the fur goods from the neighboring demon clan stopped selling, he helped them create “brand tiers” and “cold-chain shipping.” The clan elders ended up weeping and begging him to marry their saintess. · When grain went missing from the canal transport bureau, he used supply-chain tracing to investigate, and happened to uncover a century-old injustice involving the aquatic clans. · An immortal master from the Institute of Heavenly Principles called him a “disruptor of the Dao” and threatened to shut down his store. He quietly pulled out a copy of Three Years of Cultivation, Five Years of Mock Exams and a “Spirit Vein Circular Economy Plan”... Over time, his customers became increasingly outrageous: · The Dragon Prince came in to buy bandages, saying he’d chipped a scale in a fight. · The dynasty’s chancellor squatted outside the store and asked how to use “performance reviews” to reform the bureaucracy. · With an enemy army at the border, its commander sent a calling card: “I hear your store offers a ‘subdue the enemy without fighting’ package. Is it for sale?” Looking at the increasingly bizarre “requests” in his ledger, Lu Guichen sighed: “Everyone, I really just sell things.” “, But if you insist on buying ‘world peace’...” “Fine, honored customer. Please wait a moment while I work out the cost.”