A Manager's Guide to Climbing the Ranks

*******★ Inverted V Announcement ★*******

This novel will switch to a paid format on Monday, January 20. The paid chapters will run from Chapter 25 to Chapter 75. If you've already read them, please don't buy them again. After it goes paid, I'll post an update of over ten thousand words. Thank you for your support. "bows"

***********Novel blurb************

Of all the mansions belonging to Jinling's officials, the one steward Lin Xiaofu kept his distance from was Anping Marquis Manor!

Of all the powerful and wealthy people in Jinling, the one Lin Xiaofu especially wanted to avoid was the otherworldly Ninth Master Fu!

Then one day, Lin Xiaofu got tricked into signing a five-year contract to work at Anping Marquis Manor...

What?! Become Ninth Master's personal steward?! No way!

When the contract expires in five years, he'll get a shop in Haizhou and a beauty?

Fine! Sign me up!

A Little Steward's Guide to Advancement:

1. Obey every order from your master without question, even if he wants you to eat, drink, and play with him, or sleep with him (crossed out).

2. Keep your eyes and ears open. If your master tells you to go east, don't go south (crossed out. Shh, if you go south to buy grilled sausages, remember to avoid your master's spies~).

3. When you're old enough, remember to save up to buy your freedom and get married as soon as possible (and don't tell your master when you do~).

4. Your advancement goal must be to become a steward posted away from home (Haizhou has the sea! Giant crabs! Crawfish!).

5. Follow the Patch-Up Principle: What? There's no need to keep your distance? You got it!

*****Friendly Reminder******

1. Both are virgins, and each is the other's only one.

2. The shou is an easygoing, lazy, clever, carefree type, but has strong principles and knows when to bend. The gong is a serious beauty who's somewhat frail, but is actually strong-willed, obsessive, ruthless, brilliant, and skilled in martial arts.

3. The gong is six years older than the shou.

4. Everyday life as a steward, with a little bit of political intrigue here and there.

5. Includes a little arc where the gong has to chase the shou back.

6. More to come.

*****Coming soon: A Good-for-Nothing's Guide to Advancement*****

How does a good-for-nothing advance to become the best good-for-nothing around?

Lin Beichen used to be a proper good-for-nothing. He was bad at both literary and martial pursuits, knew nothing about anything, and one day was finally thrown out of Jinling along with his prime minister father!

Everyone thought that the good-for-nothing sent off to the northern wastes would be ruined for good!

But who could have guessed...

Hey, Old Wang on East Street knows how to brew liquor, and Old Cao on West Street loves to drink! Great, let's start a same-day delivery service in the northern wastes!

What?! Liu Niangzi at Number 72, Lane 12, South Street, is having an illicit affair with so-and-so?! Hurry, hurry! Let's get those gossip sheets going!

Selling calligraphy! Selling calligraphy! The former prime minister has written "Unfilial Son" today! Five hundred taels of silver per character!

Friendly Reminder:

1. The shou is a cheerful, easygoing, magnanimous sort with a thick skin who can survive anywhere. He has principles and passions of his own. The gong is serious and cold, talented in both literary and martial arts, and obsessive to the point of madness.

2. Includes a chase-the-shou-back storyline.

3. The gong is highborn and has a false identity as the shou's "uncle," but they are not blood-related.

4. The gong is three years older than the shou.

5. Everyday romance with a touch of political intrigue.

*****Completed Works*****

A Jailer's Guide to Advancement

I Heard I'm the One at the Chief Minister's Residence

After I Raised the Villain into a Handsome and Kindhearted Gentleman

The Reborn Playboy

Gongsun Ce and Bao Zheng

Theme: Live with passion, hidden in the ordinary