The Carpenter's Rise to Minister

The cover image shows Zhaozhao's old home in Shuicheng. The people chatting in the courtyard are Zhaozhao and their family of three ^_^ My drawing skills are limited, so please bear with me o(╥_╥)o

Blurb:

Shi Zhao was a notorious playboy in Qingzhou Prefecture. When his father, a skilled carpenter renowned throughout the land for his work at the Bureau of Works, was framed and killed, the family fell on hard times and all his former drinking buddies distanced themselves from him.

Faced with people's cold shoulders and his enemies' secret attempts to undermine him, Shi Zhao grew stronger instead. He kept a low profile and buried his desire for revenge deep in his heart. Resolving to sell the empty shell of the family home, honor his father's wishes, inherit the family trade, and become a carpenter, he returned to his family's home in Shuicheng to start over.

All the servants had taken their final month's wages and left. Shi Zhao returned after signing the sale contract with the buyer and gazed at the empty courtyard. In a couple of days, it would no longer belong to him. He was about to go see his mother in the main house when a small figure came to meet him as he entered the hall. "Young master, you're back? Madam has already gone to bed."

"Why haven't you left yet?" Shi Zhao asked in surprise.

The little one before him shrank back a little. "I'm not leaving. Wherever you go, young master, I'll go too."

Shi Zhao looked at the little fellow and pointed at the empty courtyard. "I'm not a young master anymore. Look, I have nothing now. In a few days, this courtyard won't be mine either."

The little one shook his head. "You still have Madam and me."

Shi Zhao couldn't help laughing. "Let's see if you still feel that way after a good night's sleep."

The little one nodded and began bustling around the house, tidying things up. Watching this little fellow, who knew the house even better than he did, Shi Zhao felt a surge of emotion...

Ambitious, determined gong x loyal, grateful shou

Shi Zhao x Ai Ye

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Next ancient-era slice-of-life story: Transmigrating to Fall in Love with My Unrequited Love from a Past Life

Currently serializing, modern urban story: Transmigrating into the Assistant to the CEO in an Old-School Novel

Blurb for Transmigrating to Fall in Love with My Unrequited Love from a Past Life:

Ying Lingyu, a third-year student at a college of Chinese medicine, joined a school-organized herb-gathering trip and accidentally fell down a mountain. When he woke up, he had transmigrated into the body of a twin-born man who didn't want to marry the emperor and had jumped out of a carriage to escape on the way to the sacrificial ceremony.

Ying Lingyu figured that the twin-born man had died from jumping out of the carriage, and that he had conveniently transmigrated into his body.

Ying Lingyu was naturally happy to have survived, but he couldn't help feeling grief-stricken at the thought that he would never again see his unrequited love of nine years, Wei Chengyi, who was currently a captain in the provincial capital's criminal police division.

But now was no time to grieve. From the body's original owner's memories, Ying Lingyu recalled that the dog of an emperor who had forced him into marriage was a scumbag who had murdered his brother to seize the throne.

The original owner hated the scumbag emperor and would rather die than submit. Ying Lingyu felt the two of them shared the same values and were no more compatible than oil and water. It was only a matter of time before the emperor found out that the original owner had jumped out of the carriage to escape. He didn't want to be captured and dragged back by the brother-murdering emperor, so he had to get away from this dangerous place as soon as possible.

Just as the dog emperor's claws were about to close around him, a different group of soldiers unexpectedly stuffed him into a sack and carried him away. When they brought him to their military camp and let him out of the sack, he was shocked to see the person seated in the place of honor. Why did he look so much like the senior he'd been in love with for nine years?

Early-stage crown prince, later emperor gong x shou, a physician who goes from crown princess to empress

Wei Chengyi x Ying Lingyu

Blurb for Transmigrating into the Assistant to the CEO in an Old-School Novel:

Yan Hao, an illegitimate son of one of Lincheng's century-old families,

was having a meal with the cool, beautiful assistant to his half-brother Yan Ge,

when he happened to run into Yan Ge's younger sister, Yan Ling.

Looking at Mi Ziqi's cold face,

Yan Hao teased, "I didn't expect the Yan family to catch us on our first date."

Mi Ziqi looked at him sidelong. "Don't you have the surname Yan?"

Yan Hao grinned mischievously. "Does that mean you've admitted you're on a date with me, Assistant Mi?"

Mi Ziqi responded with a big eye roll.

Afterward, Chen Si, who had transmigrated into the book as a cannon-fodder shou character, felt that he'd shown too much emotion in front of Yan Hao, unlike his usual aloof manner with people. But as he stumbled through this unfamiliar world, he found himself yearning for that concern.

Yan Hao, the original story's great villain, wanted only to avenge his mother. As he struggled against his legitimate younger brother, he suddenly realized that the cool, aloof beauty at his brother's side was an oddball, shaped by the Yan family's old-fashioned compound.

The heart that had held nothing but hatred suddenly developed a crack...

Career-driven, cool beauty shou vs. calculating, genteel scum gong

Theme: Turn the tables in the face of adversity