Returning to the Republic of China to Open a Department Store

[My upcoming novel, I Watch the Gate at the Imperial Prison, is now officially underway. Click on my author page to go straight to it!] [About this novel] HE! HE! HE! It's set in the Republican era, but it really does have a happy ending! Saying it three times isn't enough! Luo Xiazhi, a fresh graduate of Modu University, has an accident and transmigrates to an alternate version of old Shanghai in the 1910s, becoming the youngest son of a famous business tycoon. But being a young master in Shanghai is no easy task, and his family situation could rival Thunderstorm. Not one of his father's wives is easy to deal with. In the turbulent city of Shanghai, watch as our young Xia break through every obstacle and turn a dull tale of household scheming into an inspirational story about building an empire: I want to build industries! Open department stores! Open luxury hotels! The whole of Nanjing Road will be mine! I want to become a patriotic businessman remembered for centuries! Develop industry and save the nation! The focus is on building a business, with romance on the side and a child to raise along the way (*^▽^*) Note: This story is set in a partially fictionalized world. Please don't get hung up on the real historical period or historical figures. Thank you! [My new novel, I Watch the Gate at the Imperial Prison, is fresh off the press. Please add it to your reading list!] (The Younger Brother of the Great Ming's Wicked Concubine): A graduate of the New Oriental Culinary School is reborn as one of the poor in the Great Ming Dynasty and given a name that leaves him at a loss for words: Wanda. What can he do? He can only comfort himself with the thought that he'll be the king of square dancing in this life. Sigh... Six-year-old Wanda is deeply troubled. There are only three men in his family besides him, and his only sister has entered the palace. At such a young age, he's already taken on the family's responsibilities: cooking. A few years later, Wanda is working at a restaurant in town when he hears rumors that his sister, who's been in the palace for years, offended someone and seems to have been banished to the Cold Palace. A few more years pass. Wanda is now a head chef when he watches, dumbfounded, as a crowd of Imperial Guards surrounds the restaurant. "Second Young Master! Her Majesty the Imperial Noble Consort sent us to bring you back to the capital!" "Second Young Master! Your brother-in-law has appointed you a thousand-household commander in the Imperial Guard!" So my sister, whom I've never met, is none other than the famous Wan Zhen'er? The Great Ming Emperor Zhu Jianshen is my brother-in-law? I'm going to become an Imperial Guard? Oh no! I don't want to go to the Imperial Prison. I don't want to be an Imperial Guard. The embroidered spring sabers aren't right for me! I use a kitchen knife. The emperor, his brother-in-law: Then you can guard the gate! Theme: This novel is all about building a business and making money, overcoming every obstacle on the way to becoming a tycoon! Young man, how can you see a rainbow without going through the rain? Keep striving for a better tomorrow!