Beauty director Su Wan opens her eyes to find herself the new owner of the Drunken Spring Pavilion, a pleasure house in Kyoto.
Buried in debt and surrounded by people waiting to see her fail, she has a complete set of modern beauty techniques that no one expects.
From meridian-scraping facials and herbal baths to ancient beauty formulas, she turns a seedy pleasure house into the first beauty salon in ancient China, offering everything from hand cream for ten coins to thousand-tael beauty packages.
Noble ladies line up to book appointments, counterfeiters and local gangsters get exposed one by one, and even the Empress Dowager specifically requests her creams for royal use.
One salon isn't enough, so she opens them across the north and south of the Yangtze. When women's beauty treatments take off, she opens a men's grooming salon. Once her business is secure in the Central Plains, she takes it along the Silk Road and across the Southern Seas, bringing her beauty empire overseas.
The Junior Minister of the Court of Judicial Review quietly supports her every step of the way, with deep and devoted affection.
Su Wan politely turns him down: she has two good hands and a thriving business, so why should she be confined to a household?
From a mess everyone despised to leading the nation's beauty trade association,
with her own two hands, she becomes the most formidable businesswoman in all of Da Qi!
