There's a food shop by Yun Bridge. The young women who live nearby make three wishes every day: May Buddha bless me
May I eat another jar of fermented sweet melon without gaining weight!
May I eat another bowl of jade-belt rice cake without gaining weight!
May I eat another bowl of crucian carp and fish maw soup without gaining weight!
Chi Xiaoqiu, who runs the Yun Bridge food shop, is a skilled cook, has a talent for arranging dishes, and excels at banquets. Now that she's reached marrying age, suitors come to her door one after another.
Zhong Yingchen, who lives next door, can no longer sit still. He knocks on her door and asks, "What about me?"
Years later, someone asks Chi Xiaoqiu, "What's it like being married to a top scholar?"
Chi Xiaoqiu: "He can write shop signs and taste-test dishes!"
Reading guide:
1. This is a fictional setting, so please don't scrutinize the historical details. Love you!
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Title: "Go Ahead and Usurp the Throne, I Beg You"
In the eyes of the gossip-loving crowds in Luojing:
Xiao Shu is the young new emperor who usurped the throne.
Xu Yanxing is the treacherous eunuch who served the deposed emperor.
When Xiao Shu led his army into the palace, everyone craned their necks to see what would happen to Xu Yanxing.
Instead, all they got was the new emperor's first edict.
Xu Yanxing kept her head and became the Chief Eunuch.
The onlookers: "...What is going on?"
From then on, everyone knew that the newly appointed Chief Eunuch had secretly aided the young emperor, helping him escape the palace's punishment chamber, steal allies, organize troops, and ascend the throne. Naturally, she now enjoyed the emperor's favor and wielded immense power.
Xu Yanxing, who had just received a warning from the System: "Heh..."
They say you can never know what's in someone's heart. If the emperor's satisfaction rating hadn't been dropping all along, she might have believed those rumors too.
It seemed everyone else thought she was enjoying the emperor's favor, but she only knew that the emperor was getting harder and harder to please.
With the satisfaction rating about to fall below its critical threshold, Xu Yanxing couldn't figure out what she'd done wrong. All she could do was curse under her breath and keep out of sight whenever possible.
At the palace's grand banquet for the Emperor's birthday, everyone stepped forward to offer gifts and birthday wishes. Xu Yanxing hid so well that only a scrap of her clothing remained visible.
Yet the emperor singled her out. "Do you have a wish, my subject?"
Xu Yanxing came forward respectfully. "I have no requests. I only wish Your Majesty a long life."
"Is that so?" The young emperor slowly descended the steps and leaned toward her, his dark eyes deep and inscrutable. "Don't you want to make me more satisfied?"
"It's actually quite simple," he said with a tempting smile.
"All you have to do is trade one person for it."
Though he shared the surname Xiao with them, his cousins lived high above the clouds, while Xiao Shu lived in the punishment chamber, half-naked and starving.
Until a powerful eunuch who had already climbed to the top bent down and took his hand.
He had thought that, after wandering in the darkness for so long, a ray of light had finally come to guide him.
But he could always hear the System's voice reminding him:
Xu Yanxing needed nothing more than a new tool to raise the emperor's satisfaction rating.
Their supposed last-ditch alliance in the depths of despair was nothing but a grand performance.
Theme: The protagonist slowly makes a better life for herself through her own hard work
If fate hadn't unexpectedly rolled him off the cliff, the master and his wife would have lived a happy life. They might still have met Xiaoqiu. Maybe the master would have liked this little apprentice more than the master. Maybe he would be the master and his master by then.
Unfortunately, sometimes when we say goodbye, we will never see you again.
Therefore, I have never really liked the kind of plots where men and women take the initiative to separate for several years, especially in ancient times, where the long distance and time, and the endless sudden occurrences occurred after so many separations.
The relationship doesn't have to be too dramatic, it's best to go both ways.
I would like to say that this is the best novel I have read in the past six months! I have watched too much of the industrial love of princes and princesses, and the story of Xiao Zhong and A Qiu relying on their own diligence and hard work to pursue happiness deeply impressed me. It took me a long time to read the whole book. From beginning to end, I shed tears for every moment of every couple in it. What moved me the most was the glow in Mr. Song's eyes towards his wife, the packet of cakes Yan Ran stuffed into Xiao Gao in the trap, Mrs. Yun's persistence in her love, and even Xiao Zhong's thoughts about A Qiu before moving. I have always thought that pure love is a mirror image, but from today on, even this article is just a fairy tale of love, but I am more willing to believe in this fairy tale. Thank you to the author for allowing me to read such a novel full of true feelings.
I hate to see Xiaoqiu forced to quit the restaurant
Feng'an: You continue, don't worry about my life or death
Does the author have any plans to write new articles?
Got stabbed at the end 555
After all, the young Master Xue was still unable to protect his wife. It's better for us, Brother Zhong
Fifty strings of piano and harp without reason
One String and One Pillar Thinking of the Chinese Years
If fate hadn't unexpectedly rolled him off the cliff, the master and his wife would have lived a happy life. They might still have met Xiaoqiu. Maybe the master would have liked this little apprentice more than the master. Maybe he would be the master and his master by then. Unfortunately, sometimes when we say goodbye, we will never see you again. Therefore, I have never really liked the kind of plots where men and women take the initiative to separate for several years, especially in ancient times, where the long distance and time, and the endless sudden occurrences occurred after so many separations. The relationship doesn't have to be too dramatic, it's best to go both ways.
I would like to say that this is the best novel I have read in the past six months! I have watched too much of the industrial love of princes and princesses, and the story of Xiao Zhong and A Qiu relying on their own diligence and hard work to pursue happiness deeply impressed me. It took me a long time to read the whole book. From beginning to end, I shed tears for every moment of every couple in it. What moved me the most was the glow in Mr. Song's eyes towards his wife, the packet of cakes Yan Ran stuffed into Xiao Gao in the trap, Mrs. Yun's persistence in her love, and even Xiao Zhong's thoughts about A Qiu before moving. I have always thought that pure love is a mirror image, but from today on, even this article is just a fairy tale of love, but I am more willing to believe in this fairy tale. Thank you to the author for allowing me to read such a novel full of true feelings.
I hate to see Xiaoqiu forced to quit the restaurant
Feng'an: You continue, don't worry about my life or death
Does the author have any plans to write new articles?
Got stabbed at the end 555
After all, the young Master Xue was still unable to protect his wife. It's better for us, Brother Zhong
Fifty strings of piano and harp without reason One String and One Pillar Thinking of the Chinese Years
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