I Pose as a God with My General Store

[Business management + interdimensional trade + divine secret identity] [The Void Sea series, Part Two: The Primordial Tree] A few days after inheriting her grandmother’s general store, Zhen Qiong has an accident. As she lies dying, her consciousness grows hazy, and she hears someone muttering in a strange accent, disturbing her sleep. [On the Gui Mao day, we ask the gods: The king has had a headache for ten days. If we boil thirty human sacrifices today, will he recover?] Zhen Qiong: What is wrong with you? No! [Then shall we steam twenty children?] Zhen Qiong: What kind of pervert are you? Get lost! [How about tying up fifty live sheep instead?] Zhen Qiong is beyond fed up. If you have a headache, go see a doctor! Why are you muttering in my ear? Unable to stand it any longer, she tosses the other person an ibuprofen tablet. Phew... finally, some peace and quiet. She wakes to the sound of bleating and stares, dumbfounded, at a large group of tied-up sheep staring back at her. Meanwhile, in Yin, the capital of Shang, far away in another time, several diviners who use oracle bones see the sacrificial offerings suddenly disappear and a pill appear in a bronze ritual vessel. They’re ecstatic! Their ancestral god has finally answered them directly and bestowed a divine medicine. After taking it, the king is immediately full of vigor! They have to offer the god even more sacrifices! As it turns out, Zhen Qiong’s general store can travel between different planes and sell goods. Its revenue can be used to buy more years of life. Of course it’s good not to die, but... Her very first stop lands her in the Shang dynasty. How is she supposed to trade there? Should she accept currency ground from seashells? Or take human sacrifices and bronze vessels? That seems a bit too illegal! Wait... she can communicate with a group of people who know how to carve oracle-bone script. She’s heard the country is offering a reward of 100,000 per character just to identify and decipher those lost writings. In that case, she might as well pretend to be their god. Zhen Qiong quickly adjusts her strategy: earn money to buy more life, starting by posing as a god! If only more oracle-bone inscriptions had survived. With her “vast knowledge,” she could decipher enough to bankrupt the reward fund! Theme: A happy life is something you have to fight for yourself.