My new novel, My Sweet Shop in a Xianxia Novel, is now available. Visit my profile to read it~
[Playboy heiress who lives to eat, drink, and have fun, a young lady X aloof and ascetic poor scholar, the top-ranked candidate in the palace exams]
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Su Heng opens her eyes one day to find she has transmigrated into the second daughter of the Grand Princess, a notorious young playgirl known throughout Bianliang.
Rain falls over Bianjing at night, spring dawn breaks over Golden Pool, and love blooms behind the gates of a grand mansion.
Grand Princess and Su Zhang: How did our daughter become such a foodie?
Su Pu: Why can my little sister eat so much?
The Emperor: Don't worry, Heng'er. It's fine to love having fun. Your uncle will find the finest man in the kingdom to be your husband.
Honeyed cherries, roasted crispy ribs, and drunken pork as lovely as peach blossoms. Su Heng pours a cup of agarwood wine and gazes at her husband by lamplight.
Xue Ke asks coolly: What are you looking at?
Su Heng rests her chin in her hand and smiles: I'm looking at how appetizing my husband is. I had an extra bowl tonight.
Reader's guide:
1. A cozy, healing slice-of-life food story. The true ending is in the extras.
2. This is a fictional setting, with customs and forms of address modeled on the Song dynasty. Please keep that in mind and don't nitpick the history.
3. Food: The dishes in the first part are based on ancient recipes. Modern food will appear in the middle and later parts.
4. Romance: One-on-one, marriage first, love later, happy ending.
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This blurb was first posted on March 13 and screenshotted; revised on April 28.
↓Next up: My Sweet Shop in a Cultivation Novel↓
Meng Yelai transmigrates into a cultivation novel as the villainess, a plot-device character who harasses the male lead, poisons the female lead, and eventually gets haunted by a vengeful ghost until she can never be reborn.
Lying in a mass grave, Meng Yelai has an epiphany: Better to farm. Rather than cultivate immortality, I'll go home and farm.
A few months later, Meng's Sweet Shop opens. The locals are amazed when its new drinks go on sale.
Brown sugar boba milk tea, grass jelly, osmanthus oolong milk tea, jasmine peach fruit tea.
And desserts to go with them: sesame rolls, egg-yolk pastries, vanilla chiffon cake, pork-floss cakes, matcha red bean mille-crepe, honey-crusted bread...
A soul-reaping messenger follows the aroma over: Do you deliver to the underworld?
Ghosts: Sob, it tastes like home. Is this the kind of food ordinary ghosts like us get to eat?
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Meng's Sweet Shop grows ever more famous and prosperous. Using rare immortal flowers and ghostly fruits in its dishes, it opens branches throughout both the immortal and ghost realms.
A bewitching sect cultivator who loves beauty more than life itself: Meng's fruit tea works better than any youth-preserving spell. I stayed up late for three months straight, and my skin is still bright and fair. Looking like a fairy is now within everyone's reach.
An alchemy elder who has been stuck at a bottleneck for years: Yesterday, I happened to eat half a bowl of grass jelly. It cleansed my marrow and strengthened my bones, and today I finally broke through.
A poor sword immortal who makes a living performing points at the muscular ghost in the kitchen, vigorously pounding lemons: I eat less than it does and pound harder. Could I work at Meng's too?
The Ghost King, living next door to Meng's under a secret identity: You can work here, but don't you dare look at my bride.
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When word spreads that Meng Yelai is still alive, everyone at her former sect, the Tianxuan Sect, curses and scorns her: That abandoned disciple is now obsessed with money and consorts with demons and ghosts. She's a disgrace to the immortal sects!
Later, a Meng's Sweet Shop franchise opens at the foot of Mount Tianxuan.
Tianxuan Sect disciples: I queued all day yesterday and finally got Meng's signature osmanthus rice-wine milk tea and taro cake. So good.
[Reader's guide]
1. A food-business story with cultivation and supernatural elements, set in a low-level immortal and magical world. Expect plenty of creative worldbuilding.
2. Cozy tone, one-on-one romance, male lead is the Ghost King. Chinese desserts, Western baking, and sweet soups abound. A sweet story in the literal sense.
3. There are ghosts, but nothing scary. The ghost realm is full of cute, food-loving ghosts.
4. Updates at 9 p.m. Other times are for proofreading. Any leave notices will be posted in the blurb.
Theme: Whether life is going well or badly, keep loving life.
The character Su Pu reminds me of a friend I had before, who could fall in love with different people at the same time. You regard him as your confidant and best friend, but others regard you as one of the many fish in his fish pond. Maybe because you are good enough, he cares about you very much. It is too easy to be nice to one person in a relationship. He can do the same thing to anyone. He was silent at that time, and he and I both understood what he was unspeakable about. In the end, I did not express my feelings. After all, I made it clear that I liked him. No friend knew this. He also told my friends that he hoped I would stop liking him. In fact, it was just that he couldn't make promises and couldn't bear the responsibility. When you want to be a normal friend with him, he is reluctant to let go and uses other opportunities to express his unplaceable emotions to you. I hope all sisters will wipe their eyes, there are thousands of scumbags out there.
If I only disliked my brother a little bit before, I was really disgusted after reading this chapter. In the previous chapter, there was a comment that said that my brother was not a scumbag in the context of the times. I really disagree. He first married another woman and then pretended to be affectionate to Sister Jiang when his wife was pregnant. I put myself into it. I'm so moved. Tenderness is so gentle, and it's so good when it's good. It's a pity that gentleness and this goodness are not only given to one person, and he has never had to be Sister Jiang. I'm really glad that they didn't really get married. A person as good as Sister Jiang deserves someone who is equally affectionate and can firmly choose her.
I think Xue Xiang's line is really interesting... The dramatic turning point - "Ten years are like a dream, but this life is scary" is great. Exaggerate!
The spring waves under the sad bridge were green, once the shadow of a startled dragon came
Speechless. Who are you showing me by doing this? Why is Sister Jiang with him? Be a concubine? Make an outdoor room? I used to be the legitimate daughter of a decent family. Why would I be wronged if I left my legitimate wife alone? I surrendered.
My brother is really too calm and rational. Although this ending is good, I prefer Jiang and my brother to have a hey together. I can understand my brother's regret. It would have been better if I could have persisted a little longer.
It looks good, but I really don't like people like my brother. Fortunately, I have a new cp.
The words are very simple and elegant, the writing is wonderful, and the descriptions of the food are also mouth-watering. The emotional line is slightly lighter, but still very sweet
After reading it, I feel that the writing style is very good and the writing is very careful. However, the emotional transition and interaction of the main CP are slightly lacking. Although the food is very good, it feels a little overwhelming. The pair of deputy CP brother and sister Jiang are really brilliant. Looking forward to future works
The last episode was so well written that I almost cried. My brother is really conflicted.
The character Su Pu reminds me of a friend I had before, who could fall in love with different people at the same time. You regard him as your confidant and best friend, but others regard you as one of the many fish in his fish pond. Maybe because you are good enough, he cares about you very much. It is too easy to be nice to one person in a relationship. He can do the same thing to anyone. He was silent at that time, and he and I both understood what he was unspeakable about. In the end, I did not express my feelings. After all, I made it clear that I liked him. No friend knew this. He also told my friends that he hoped I would stop liking him. In fact, it was just that he couldn't make promises and couldn't bear the responsibility. When you want to be a normal friend with him, he is reluctant to let go and uses other opportunities to express his unplaceable emotions to you. I hope all sisters will wipe their eyes, there are thousands of scumbags out there.
If I only disliked my brother a little bit before, I was really disgusted after reading this chapter. In the previous chapter, there was a comment that said that my brother was not a scumbag in the context of the times. I really disagree. He first married another woman and then pretended to be affectionate to Sister Jiang when his wife was pregnant. I put myself into it. I'm so moved. Tenderness is so gentle, and it's so good when it's good. It's a pity that gentleness and this goodness are not only given to one person, and he has never had to be Sister Jiang. I'm really glad that they didn't really get married. A person as good as Sister Jiang deserves someone who is equally affectionate and can firmly choose her.
I think Xue Xiang's line is really interesting... The dramatic turning point - "Ten years are like a dream, but this life is scary" is great. Exaggerate!
The spring waves under the sad bridge were green, once the shadow of a startled dragon came
Speechless. Who are you showing me by doing this? Why is Sister Jiang with him? Be a concubine? Make an outdoor room? I used to be the legitimate daughter of a decent family. Why would I be wronged if I left my legitimate wife alone? I surrendered.
My brother is really too calm and rational. Although this ending is good, I prefer Jiang and my brother to have a hey together. I can understand my brother's regret. It would have been better if I could have persisted a little longer.
It looks good, but I really don't like people like my brother. Fortunately, I have a new cp.
The words are very simple and elegant, the writing is wonderful, and the descriptions of the food are also mouth-watering. The emotional line is slightly lighter, but still very sweet
After reading it, I feel that the writing style is very good and the writing is very careful. However, the emotional transition and interaction of the main CP are slightly lacking. Although the food is very good, it feels a little overwhelming. The pair of deputy CP brother and sister Jiang are really brilliant. Looking forward to future works
The last episode was so well written that I almost cried. My brother is really conflicted.