Those Years I Ran a Rouge Shop in Ancient Times

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Ever since they were one year old, Zhou family’s eldest son and the young master of the Wen family had been the laughingstock of the capital. One had grabbed a spatula during the one-year-old's grab ceremony, while the other had grabbed rouge.

That might have been the end of it, but as the two young masters grew up, they only went further down the paths their choices had set them on. The legitimate sons of distinguished scholarly families had become, respectively, a cook who spent all his time by the stove and a spoiled playboy obsessed with rouge and face powder!

Even so, the two couldn't stand each other, each convinced the other was the one with something wrong in his head.

When Wen Yi was sixteen, the head of the Wen family finally flew into a rage and drove the playboy out of the house, declaring, "If you don't change your ways, don't even think about coming back into the Wen family, unless you're dead out there!"

But what the Wen family hadn't expected was that Wen Yi not only survived, but opened a cosmetics shop. His countless beautiful, high-quality cosmetics immediately won the hearts of the young ladies and noblewomen. Even the palace consorts secretly bought them.

Meanwhile, Zhou Han opened a restaurant serving dishes of his own invention. His delicious food kept even the most discerning diners coming back for more, and even earned lavish praise from the Emperor, who was traveling incognito.

After all those years of clashing, Wen Yi finally couldn't resist sneaking into Zhou Han's restaurant to sample the food. Mm, it really was delicious!

But before he could finish marveling, Zhou Han appeared out of nowhere and sat down across from him. "There's even better food at my place. Would you like to come over?"

PS: One-on-one romance, main character is the shou, happy ending, an alternate historical setting, and the characters are not based on historical figures. Updates daily from the start.

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Lou Que had transmigrated yet again. There was one piece of good news and several pieces of bad news.

The good news was that he had transmigrated into the lower realm, and had transmigrated into a book, so he knew the entire plot.

The bad news was that he had lost all his cultivation and was about to be sent in a marriage substitution to marry Yu Aotian, the male lead of this cultivation novel about a protagonist leveling up.

Was this the start of a sweet romance between him and the male lead, Yu Aotian? Of course not! Lou Que's current body had already died, and even though his soul had entered it, something had gone wrong with his mind, too.

In other words, Lou Que had become a clumsy, slow-witted fool who couldn't coordinate his limbs!

Lou Que: ?!

The even worse news was that this body belonged to a mist jellyfish, which would change from male to female in another year!

The even, even worse news was that Lou Que, a cat, had transmigrated into an underwater cultivation world made entirely of water.

Lou Que: *smiles* Why not just let him die already!

But Lou Que hadn't expected that when he was forced to marry into the Yu family, his husband wouldn't be the male lead, Yu Aotian, but a gloomy, pitiful little cabbage. And he was bound to him, too!

Lou Que had transmigrated after failing to find a disciple in the Immortal Realm, which caused his disciple-finding array to activate: ...Fine. He could reluctantly be this guy's master and have him find heavenly treasures, steal the male lead Yu Aotian's opportunities, and restore his body.

"Just acknowledge me as your master. All you need is a brush, and you'll be able to cultivate with ease and beat people up without breaking a sweat!"

After he took him as a disciple: "You must do fifty gesture drawings every day. You already started later than everyone else, you know? Other people start learning to draw at five, and you're already twenty-five! Hard work makes up for lack of talent. On top of that, do one still-life sketch. No sleep until you finish!"

Pitiful husband and disciple, Yu Cheng: QAQ

PS: One-on-one romance, happy ending, updates daily from the start.

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