(Both leads transmigrate) A stubborn, career-focused heroine x a sunny, loyal hero who never gives up. One-on-one romance with business and management elements, as well as everyday mishaps and an ensemble cast. A slow-burn story, not a conventional shopkeeping novel (includes in-depth information about Song Dynasty porcelain). Enjoy!
Blurb:
Seven years after transmigrating to the Northern Song Dynasty, Xie Zhixing has finally carved out a place for herself at the family’s ancestral little pottery workshop. Her porcelain-making plans are looking promising, and everything is thriving. Just as she waits excitedly for the kiln to open, it collapses.
As if things couldn’t get any worse, she heads into town to sell her porcelain and make a fresh start, only for it to be smashed.
Smashed by two inexplicably fighting rich wastrel heirs.
The good news: One of the young masters is extremely apologetic and immediately offers to pay double.
The bad news: He looks familiar, and rather like the rich second-generation kid who used to wander around her shop back before she transmigrated.
Wait, not "rather like." It’s him!
Wang Linchen has spent seven years in the Northern Song Dynasty, and through his own efforts has become the least respectable, most useless son in the household of the wealthy Wang family. His mother is frail, his father is a calculating miser, his elder brother is vicious, and his stepmother is a troublemaker...
As the most low-maintenance member of the whole family, his only wish is to return to modern times and look after his grandfather, the only family he has, who is so rich that money is all he has.
But every attempt has failed.
Just as he finally accepts reality and fully accepts his Song Dynasty parents...
She appears.
The good news: She recognizes him, and her family runs a porcelain workshop, which gives them a decent foundation for starting a business.
The bad news: He’s just sat down hard enough to smash that foundation to pieces.
He meets an old friend in a strange land and promptly earns a "smash to be safe". Is there any way to salvage this situation?
Xie Zhixing looks at the porcelain shards scattered everywhere. Helpless but determined, angry yet fired up, she finally accepts her old friend’s invitation. "All right, let’s give starting a business together a try."
Only later does she understand that he was planning not only to keep them safe from all their "smashing," but also to make sure they would be safe year after year.
[Reader’s Guide]
1. Both leads transmigrate. They start a business, make things happen, and work with porcelain. Ordinary people struggle, grow, and fall in love. Lighthearted and fun.
2. The heroine looks sweet but is ambitious and stubborn as a mule. The hero plays dumb while hiding his sharpness. They grow and learn to work together, and he matures later on.
3. The technical details and some conclusions about antique porcelain require continued research. The information included in the story mainly serves the plot and the protagonists.
4. The author likes a bit of everything and isn’t a history buff. I don’t know what might bother you, so if anything offends you, then... I’ll bow and apologize.
5. This is essentially a wish-fulfillment novel set in the Northern Song Dynasty. The leads’ transmigration will change some historical events (for the plot, I have to sacrifice the Song Dynasty a little).
6. If the writing or pacing has any shortcomings, please be gentle with the bricks you throw.
Theme: Failure is the mother of success
The old man in commoner clothes was a good friend of Pan Lang. First of all, Wang Yucheng was excluded. He died earlier than Pan Lang. Excluding Lin Bu, Lin Bu's "plum wife and crane son" temperament should not be consistent with "standing in high positions all year round". The officials of Xu Dong and Wei Ye were not very big, and they did not have much interaction with Dingzhou. Maybe it was Kou Zhun, who rose to the rank of prime minister, was demoted around 1006, and served in local affairs for a long time after that.
Can Valley, golden millet, Brother Xie looks like the plump and bowed millet in the fields. As soon as this name appeared, a full-fledged character image emerged on the page.
Here I am again, the speed of catching fish can't keep up with the speed of Da Geng, this is good~[touching head]🤗
Fishing~ Let's take a look at Ah Xing's business plan~~
If the porcelain pieces are to be used as nails, they will most likely be fixed with cotton rivets like clear cotton nails. Simply threading them will be of no use. Most of the nail pieces that are pierced seem to have fixed specifications, and the fired porcelain pieces are probably not that uniform.
In the last chapter, I was thinking about Sima Guang smashing the vat. It was really Sima Guang who smashed it[666]
I am used to updating on countdown days, so in August I updated on even-numbered days. 😚 Is it the author's birthday? (See Jin Jiang congratulating you in the comment area) Happy birthday to you [cake][cake]
Having been busy like Zhi Xing for a while, Xing Xing welcomed Xiao Wang's company and Xiao Jiang's relief, and the miserable people envied their liveliness alone. Miaoniang has such a wonderful mouth, Xiaokui will take the exam well~ [Good Luck Lotus]
There was also a heroine who came over to make celadon and used Uncle Jiang Yong's recipe but didn't tell the Jiang family and had no contact with the Jiang family. If she comes to visit the Jiang family, tells Jiang's father and mother what's going on, and then burns porcelain with them, she can avoid being misunderstood by Jiang's brother even if they don't burn the porcelain together first. The heroine is relatively straight and not brainless, but now she feels a little dull.
Xie Lieyu's attitude is so strange. Using Uncle Jiang Yong's formula, the heroine knows how to add other things because of modern knowledge. She achieves success by standing on the shoulders of giants, so she has to be the benefactor of the Jiang family. The heroine should object to this, right? She had to make the formula public and not keep it private, saying it was not her fault.