Fine Clothes and Fine Food

New novel: Green Apricots, a cozy farming story about a couple working hard after a ghost marriage.

After transmigrating, Xu Xing's status kept changing: ghost bride, child bride, street vendor, workshop owner, top-scoring candidate's wife, county magistrate's wife, prefect's wife, and eventually the chief minister's wife. She led quite a varied life, building wealth, benefiting the local people, and leveling up as she went. She was both a successful businesswoman and a capable partner, and before she knew it, she had become the woman most envied by women throughout the Great Yue dynasty.

Fan Changqing diligently served for six years as county magistrate in a remote, impoverished region. In the end, he died for his country when rebels attacked the city. Only after his death did he learn that a poor family's prized son like him had been nothing more than cannon fodder in the official world. Given another chance, he still intended to follow the same path to success, but this time things would be different, because Xu Xing would be by his side.

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Novel blurb:

A street vendor determined to make her fortune through food x a food-loving Embroidered Guard

After transmigrating into the body of a little servant girl sold by her own parents, Lu Chunyu worked steadily in the Duke of Weiyuan's estate's main kitchen for five years. Then she got lucky: the household was breaking up its staff! She eagerly seized the chance to leave. Her first goal was to make sure she wasn't sold a second time!

Lu Sheng, the eldest son of a collateral branch of the marquis's family, had just used his connections to join the Embroidered Guard, hoping to become a government employee who could lie flat. Then he tasted something incredible at the barbecue stall in the alley. Seeing that the servant girl who had left the estate refused to seek a comfortable life through a powerful patron, insisting on making her living through wind and rain, he decided he ought to work harder too!

Lu Chunyu: Making a living and building a fortune are all about money, when you get down to it! My experience as a food blogger and working in the duke's main kitchen should be enough, right?

Lu Sheng: Every time I come back from a trip, that girl has another new dish. Delicious! Every time I go on a trip, I get promoted. Wonderful!

Lu Chunyu: There's nothing special about what I make. It just smells extra good and really hits the spot...

Lu Sheng: Working for the Embroidered Guard isn't that scary. We just investigate cases and deal with people...

Lu Chunyu: I'm still myself after meeting you. I just want to cook good food and earn money.

Lu Sheng: After meeting you, I changed. I went from a slacker who wanted to lie flat to a workaholic who gives it his all.

Lu Chunyu: You're a young nobleman from a marquis's family and a high-ranking officer of the Embroidered Guard. I wouldn't dare dream of being with you.

Lu Sheng: You're a talented cook and one of the richest people in the capital. I wouldn't dare let you get away.

Content warning: This is a fictional setting, and common sense bends to serve the story. Details that won't stand up to fact-checking include, but are not limited to, the official system, prices, place names, and social customs. If that's not for you, please click away. There are countless great stories out there. Reading should be fun, so don't force yourself!

The author's previous novel, My Eldest Sister Works Hard, a farming story, has been signed for traditional Chinese publication. Give it a read too!

Theme: Regardless of status or gender, obey the law and strive for self-reliance