The Daily Business of an Ancient Inn

[Transmigration + world-building + business management + everyday life. You're welcome to add this to your favorites and read!]

Upcoming story: Surviving as a Team with the Emperor. The blurb is below.

Qin Zhanzhan opens an inn in the middle of a desolate village.

The inn is dilapidated and barely offers any shelter.

The System tells her she can draw one free card each day.

Then she draws a packet of frozen dumplings flavored with tomato and egg.

???

Frozen dumplings are strange enough, but tomato and egg flavor?

She thinks she can get by at the inn without much trouble, until one day she has incredible luck and draws a gold-quality card.

A worker named Mo Zhixu falls from the sky.

When they first meet, he points a sword at her.

Qin Zhanzhan sneers and kicks him flying.

Reading Guide:

The focus is on running a business, with little romance.

The male lead has someone he loves from afar in the early chapters, but later his heart belongs only to the heroine.

Upcoming story: Surviving as a Team with the Emperor. Please add it to your favorites.

Lin Tingwan transmigrates into a novel as a cannon-fodder supporting character who shares her name. The timing couldn't be worse: she's sitting in the bridal chamber, about to consummate her marriage with the villain, Gu Hanqing.

Before long, Gu Hanqing will fall in love with the heroine and kill her.

She knows that once they consummate the marriage, there will be no turning back. So she claims she has her period and gets out of it for the night.

After marrying into the Prince's household, she spends every day figuring out how to escape. She bribes servants, disguises herself as a maid, climbs walls, and crawls through dog holes, but Gu Hanqing catches her every time.

Lin Zongguan transmigrates into the body of an emperor, becoming Gu Zongguan. He feels no excitement, only panic.

What do the memorials say? Why can't he understand them? What are they talking about? Why can't he make sense of it?

And when he's already exhausted, he still has to go to the harem to favor his concubines. They're beautiful, but there are far too many of them.

He looks at the green plaques brought over by the Office of Palace Affairs and discreetly clutches his stomach, thinking his kidneys are in danger.

He clings to his throne, trembling, afraid that one small mistake will cost him his life.

Then one day, Prince Duan comes to the palace with his wife. The moment he sees her, he thinks: Isn't that my little sister?

Lin Tingwan's eyes light up. Isn't that her honorary big brother?

They meet, both teary-eyed.

Gu Hanqing and the Empress Dowager stare at them, baffled.

After returning to the prince's residence, Lin Tingwan writes a letter to her honorary brother.

Brother, please, abduct me into the harem. Otherwise, I won't survive!

Gu Zongguan refuses without hesitation. That's immoral. No.

Lin Tingwan ignores him and keeps writing, sending letter after letter to the palace.

At last, Gu Zongguan can't take it anymore. Under pressure, he forcibly takes her for himself.

Lin Tingwan thinks she's safe at last, but unexpectedly, Gu Hanqing changes his ways and visits her chambers every few days.

She has her servants block the door and warns him: "Your Highness, please behave with dignity. I'm the emperor's consort now!"

Gu Hanqing: "Then I'll rebel and become emperor myself."

Theme: Strive ceaselessly.