Jinling's Number One Gossipmonger

In his previous life, Xie Zhao worked part-time as a paparazzo. Now nineteen, she still hasn't married.

The other Xie sisters think she's good for nothing, and not a single family in the neighborhood is willing to marry her. The old folks think there's something wrong with her head.

Before long, Xie Zhao becomes infamous throughout all of Wuzhong as a leftover woman.

Even after being driven out of her home, the leftover woman still doesn't get married. Instead, she opens an information-gathering teahouse called "Ask Me Anything."

Find out whether your future husband is having an affair: five taels of silver

Find out whether your future husband has an illegitimate child outside: ten taels of silver

Find out whether your prospective bride has a respectable background: fifty taels of silver

Just when people doubt that such a strange business could ever succeed,

the wife of General Mingwei comes knocking:

"I want to know what the girl my husband is keeping in a secret residence looks like."

Then more and more clients come calling:

A palace maid who sneaked out of the palace: I want to know who the young man I met at the Mid-Autumn Banquet was.

A powerful Chief Commander: I want to know which of my subordinates has been cuckolding me.

An alternate world, with plenty of original settings. Official ranks are inspired by the Ming Dynasty. The setting features rival northern and southern courts and has nothing to do with the historical Northern and Southern Dynasties.

An aloof crown prince X a down-on-her-luck office worker who talks back to everyone

Coming soon: How to Become a General

Shi Wenzhu made three choices in her life.

Her first choice was to give up literature and take up martial arts. A sensitive, artistic young woman, she wasn't satisfied with the career plan her father had made for her, which was for her to become a professional general. She wanted to be a refined, high-born lady like her friend's older sister. Then she found out that her friend's sister's husband gambled and visited brothels, while her friend could do nothing about it. That very day, Shi Wenzhu went home and burned all the Four Books and Five Classics she'd secretly kept in her boudoir.

Her second choice was to refuse to follow in her father's footsteps and spend her life eating sand in the deserts of Mobei. She listened to her heart, let herself go, and eloped with Shen Yi. Although she'd chosen martial arts over literature, she had no intention of spending her whole life eating sand in Mobei like her father. But people make plans and fate laughs. Who could have guessed that her father would collapse the day before she eloped? Forced to reverse her decision the moment she'd made it, she stood Shen Yi up.

Her third choice was to stand and defend the city alongside Shen Yi, now her sworn enemy, when the Wala cavalry were about to breach Pingjing.

A gloomy, violent, lovesick prince X a general who hates working and is always ready to quit and run away

Theme: Everyone should be self-reliant and strong.