[New story: "As a Maidservant in the Ming Dynasty" is now underway (original title: "A Little Maid in the Ming Dynasty")]
Gu Mingzheng transmigrates, opening her eyes to find herself in the middle of a divorce.
Mother-in-law: "Our Marquis Household has no place for a wicked daughter-in-law like you. Choose for yourself: the authorities or divorce!"
Unfilial son: "I don't want an evil mother like you. Aunt Yuan will be my real mother from now on."
Faithless husband: "Mingzheng, I never thought you could be so cruel. You even tried to harm the child in Niang's belly!"
The beautiful woman lies limp in the faithless husband's arms, weeping like a pear blossom in the rain.
Gu Mingzheng: Ugh!
A two-faced mother-in-law, a faithless husband, and an unfilial son: whoever wants them can have them. She certainly doesn't.
Gu Mingzheng takes the money, gets divorced, and moves to her own house. She spends her days tinkering with food and living a thoroughly carefree life.
After falling ill, Prince Regent Xie Yanqing moves to a residence outside the palace to recuperate.
He'd hoped for some peace and quiet, but the neighbor is constantly making noise, and the delicious smell of food wafts over every day.
Braised lamb today... fried ribs tomorrow...
Then he looks at the fish-and-mutton porridge the old nursemaid made him and nearly throws up after one mouthful.
At last, Xie Yanqing takes his silver and knocks on the neighbor's gate.
Many days later, the Grand Empress Dowager comes to visit the son who ran away from home.
She freezes as soon as she walks in. Is this rosy-cheeked, energetic man really her sickly son?
And look at the servants who left with him. Every single one of them has gotten plumper!
Well, well. Did you all run away from home so you could eat food without sharing it with me?
Reader's Guide:
1. An entirely fictional mash-up of historical dynasties.
2. Everyday life, food business, and daily cat-petting and dog-walking.
3. Daily updates.
Upcoming story: "A Little Maid in the Ming Dynasty"
College student Tao Xiang has just graduated when she dies from overwork after staying up all night. When she opens her eyes again, she's been transported to the Duke of Wuqing's residence in the Ming Dynasty.
She's no madam or young lady. She's a servant, commonly known as a hereditary bondservant.
And that's not even the worst part.
When Madam Zhou, the head maid to the Duke's First Madam, suddenly dies, several people are desperate to worm their way into the First Madam's good graces.
Tao Xiang's mother, Nanny Xue, is one of them. With nothing valuable to offer, she sets her sights on Tao Xiang and plans to marry her off as a child bride to the son of the steward of the main household.
Thinking about a female slave being paired with a male slave, then having a litter of little slaves to serve these nobles, Tao Xiang sits bolt upright on her deathbed.
To change Nanny Xue's mind, she pulls an all-nighter to plan her career.
Cooking isn't really an option. Her major was accounting, and her special skill is makeup.
Since she's too young for anyone to believe she can do the books, she'd better start out as a hairdressing maid.
#Another day of working hard to earn my freedom#
Upcoming story: "My Sickly Husband Absolutely Cannot Be the Demon Lord"
Nan Mingyin, the greatest cultivator of her era, is on the verge of ascending, while the immortal and demon factions are locked in a fierce battle.
She's just an unaffiliated cultivator.
The Immortal Court uses every means at its disposal to recruit her into its sect and fight the demons.
The demons have gone mad, attacking any cultivator they see and fighting to the death.
Nan Mingyin wants no part of it. She decides to conceal her identity and live as an ordinary person. She takes over a small restaurant on the brink of closing, marries a sickly man with a handsome face, and adopts a vicious dog and a stray cat, starting the most ordinary life imaginable.
Ten years later, the Immortal Court finally sends someone to negotiate peace. Nan Mingyin thinks it's all finally over and she can prepare to go into seclusion.
Unexpectedly, just a few days later, news arrives that the Demon Lord killed the person sent by the Immortal Court and destroyed another sect.
Nan Mingyin's plans fall apart. She curses, "That damn Demon Lord! He even killed the person sent to negotiate a marriage alliance. Why doesn't heaven strike him dead?"
Her sickly husband: "Mm, he deserves to die!"
Nan Mingyin: "Good will triumph over evil. The Immortal Court will win eventually!"
Her sickly husband: "Mm, it definitely will."
Nan Mingyin: "That bloodthirsty, cruel pervert is definitely going to get what's coming to him!"
Her sickly husband agrees softly, "You're right about everything, my dear."
She spends some time ranting about it, until one night she wakes and finds her husband missing. She goes out to look for him, only to find her sickly husband lounging in a rocking chair beneath the covered walkway, idly playing with a lock of her hair. A line of demon cultivators kneels in the courtyard. "We respectfully beseech the Demon Lord to return to the demon realm."
Nan Mingyin: Damn, damn, damn! I've worked so hard to disguise myself as an ordinary person, and that accursed Demon Lord is living in my house?
It seems fate has decided for her. Should she fight or run? Nan Mingyin chooses the latter without hesitation.
The night she leaves, the sky is dark and the wind is high.
She's barely out of town when her husband, surrounded by billowing demonic energy, blocks her path.
"My dear, where are you going at this hour of the night?"
Theme: Love yourself and love life
Good looking, I like Mingzheng, I like everyone
The 12th book I've read in 2026!
Finished spreading flowers!! This is the first time I have won so many Jinjiang coins
I feel like there is still so much I want to write and I don't want to finish it!