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Misunderstandings + shady shop management + plot-focused
Chef Yu You always thought that she was destined to be the powerful heroine of a cultivation-and-revenge story: her ancestors had been exiled from the cultivation world, and although she was exceptionally gifted, the lack of spiritual energy in her technology-driven world had kept her from cultivating.
One day, she finally returned to the cultivation world with her world's black-tech System, determined to wipe away the shame of the past. While everyone else played at being weak to catch their enemies off guard, she would use the System's black tech to run a shady shop, acting like a tiger to eat pigs!
At first, thanks to the System's black tech and her ability to turn tainted beasts into delicious food, people were pretty successful at imagining her to be a big shot...
Who knew that after she hired an accountant outside the Tainted Abyss, her reputation as a big shot would start veering toward that of a lecherous fiend!
Who on earth was going around saying that she'd used her strength to abduct the beautiful martial uncle of the Qihuang Alliance and force him to work at her shop?
Damn it! Veins throbbed at Yu You's temples. At this rate, her story was going to change from one about a powerful heroine into one where she was a cannon-fodder who kidnapped a man and got casually taken out by a powerful heroine doing a good deed!
No need to panic!
She was cultivating Dao resonance within herself and collecting her ancestors' divine artifacts. Every step was right out of a standard power-up story!
Wait, why was the accountant competing with the other guys for male dominance?
Yan Qing first met Yu You inside the Tainted Abyss.
She had appeared like a force sent from heaven. She was powerful and inscrutable, and could even turn terrifying tainted beasts into dishes with astonishing effects.
But... her mood was also unpredictable, shifting from gentle to furious in an instant. He could only tremble with fear and carefully guess at her unfathomable intentions.
To give the younger members of his sect a chance to survive, Yan Qing's eyes reddened as he humbly begged Yu You for help, even offering himself in exchange.
If he couldn't protect the younger ones in his sect, then he would offer up his precarious chastity to secure their safety.
But she didn't accept. Instead, she looked at him with pity.
That day, Yan Qing seemed to understand something. He stopped trying to please Yu You and quietly stayed by her side, becoming her accountant.
He also fended off the swarms of overconfident suitors who, just like him before, didn't know their place.
A shady shop, with a misunderstanding-driven plot
The bold, escaped (in every sense of the word) and lovely female shopkeeper who recklessly fleeces big shots VS the cautious, jealous, coquettish fox of a male lead who thinks he's been kidnapped as a bridegroom
P.S. Since this is a misunderstanding-driven story, the romance will develop rather slowly. Later on, the male lead may compete with other male characters for male dominance.
Theme: Everyone is doing their best to prove themselves.
