Chang'an's First Bar (Business Management)

[Savvy bartender and bar owner x sharp-tongued but soft-hearted foreign merchant / 1v1 / both leads are virgins / a match made in heaven between two merchant spouses]

Lu Jinzhang, a bar owner, was sent transmigrating by her own tequila. She fell from the heavens and landed face-first. While other transmigrators became princesses or noble ladies, poor Lu Jinzhang became an orphan after her parents died suddenly.

Lu Jinzhang: No worries. I can still turn this around.

The next day, her relatives opened their eyes to find the Lu family's tavern empty. Gold, silver, and valuables, Lu Father's estate, Lu Mother's dowry, even the land deeds and contracts: not a thing was left behind! Her wicked uncles and aunts gritted their teeth in fury. They searched every inch of the county overnight but couldn't find her.

In Chang'an, the doors of a little bar decked out with lanterns swung open, and it quickly filled with people and lively chatter.

Lu Jinzhang leaned contentedly against her newly built bar, running her fingers over the glassware as she counted her silver.

Lu Jinzhang: My bar is open for business! (Pangolin.jpg)

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All the foreign merchants in the Western Market knew that Ye Liyan, owner of the Shuye company, had a peculiar temper and was as difficult to please as a Persian cat. But there were three things he loved most: whatever was interesting, whatever was unusual, and whatever made money.

As it happened, he could find all three at the Amber Light Bar.

An old Persian saying goes that a thief and a bandit will exchange a knowing smile. Two merchants with their eyes fixed on profit hit it off and formed an evil partnership.

He joined Lu Jinzhang in selling coriander liquor and mixing poetry-inspired cocktails. They even made a fill-in-the-blanks poetry book to entice literati and scholars into writing nonsense verses.

In the end, even a cat can be tamed by humans, even a Persian cat.

*A light ensemble cast, with a business-focused main plot!

Theme: Promote traditional drinking culture.