Qingzhou Beauty Parlor: The Eldest Sister's Business Diary

Name: Qingzhou Beauty Parlor: The Eldest Sister's Business Diary
Author: Queen Rong

青州丽人坊：长姐的经营日记

by Queen Rong (蓉大王)

Status: Completed
Length: 578k Words
Genre: Ancient Romance
Subgenre: Slice-of-Life Farming
Updated: 14d ago
Source: Fanqie

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Farming, nurturing, entrepreneurship and wealth, independent women, everyday life in ancient times

Chu Li, a top modern beauty therapist, transmigrates into the past and becomes a destitute young woman running a rouge shop in Qingzhou City of the Great Zhou Dynasty. She has just been jilted, recently lost her mother, and has a six-year-old younger sister to care for.

With a dilapidated shop ahead of her, an adorable little sister to look after, and only a few dozen taels of silver to her name, Chu Li smiles calmly. Men can’t be relied on. Making money is the way to go!

Using modern beauty techniques, she starts by massaging her neighbors’ shoulders and necks, then gradually transforms the nearly bankrupt rouge shop into “Chu’s Beauty Parlor,” where the noblewomen of Qingzhou compete for appointments.

Shoulder and neck massages, facial lifting, warming therapies, exclusive membership robes, nourishing tea and snacks... While others sell rouge, she sells dignity, comfort, and freedom for women.

She develops scented balms with her sister, partners with a pastry shop owner to share profits, helps the women at a cloth shop create new designs, and befriends a Hanlin scholar’s granddaughter who has no wish to marry. Together, these women support one another and grow their businesses.

Her scumbag former fiancé comes crawling back? Get lost.

A matchmaker shows up to pressure her into marriage? Not interested.

She makes money, raises her sister, opens shops, starts a beauty school, and travels throughout the Great Zhou.

Chu Li believes in one thing: I make money so that when I want to say no, I have the means to do it.

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