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The next story I'll be opening is The Marquis's Widow Sets Up a Stall to Raise Her Child. Food, raising a child, and face-slapping. 1v1, both pure. It starts on May 21. Please add it to your favorites and show your support. The blurb is below.

Blurb:

(Part One)

Yun Zhaozhao transmigrated into a book. The good news: she had become the daughter of the Grand Secretary, with peerless looks and family standing.

The bad news: as a vicious cannon-fodder character destined for a tragic end, she was about to enter the palace as a consort.

The original male lead, the emperor, not only loathed her, but had long regarded the Yun family as a thorn in his side.

At last, one dark and windy night, she escaped the Yun residence, only to run into a man.

His brows were sharp and cold, his eyes like stars in winter, and he stood like a pine in the snow, elegant and as pure as jade.

But when she saw his insignia, Yun Zhaozhao shuddered. She would remember that name even if she were reduced to ashes.

Zhou Zheng, Marquis of Wuan. He was cruel, cold, and tyrannical, not only the book's biggest villain, but also the culprit who tortured the original Yun Zhaozhao to death.

His blade pressed against her neck. In desperation, she bit him hard and shouted, "Help! The Marquis of Wuan is harassing an innocent woman!"

That was how their feud began.

Later, just as expected, Zhou Zheng made things difficult for her at every turn, giving her even more trouble than he had in the original book...

Until she was framed, and heard Zhou Zheng plead for her before the male lead: "I believe the Noble Consort is innocent."

(Part Two)

As the saying goes, when water is full, it spills; when the moon is full, it wanes.

A family as powerful as the Yuns was bound to have people hoping to see it collapse.

Especially the Yun family's daughter. They said she was an arrogant, wicked woman, a Noble Consort who had no favor from the emperor, constantly courting death, unable to tolerate the other consorts, and deeply hated by the emperor.

It seemed the Yun family was on the verge of falling because of her.

Then war broke out everywhere, a new emperor took the throne, and he named the Yun family's daughter empress, with no imperial harem.

On the day of her investiture, Zhou Zheng placed the empress's golden seal in Yun Zhaozhao's hands and said softly:

"Zhaozhao, you saved my life, and my heart belongs to you, too. It suits me perfectly that you can't stand having anyone else around. Don't leave me."

Seeing his reddened ears and wounded expression, Yun Zhaozhao, who had only wanted to live a carefree life outside the palace, finally answered with great reluctance, "We'll see how you do."

1. This is a fictional setting. Please don't nitpick the historical details.

2. The "Zheng" in the male lead's name, Zheng, is pronounced with the first tone.

3. The story has a slightly ensemble perspective and involves political intrigue. 1v1, happy ending, both pure. After the heroine enters the palace, she is only empress in name and is never actually summoned to the emperor's bedchamber.

Upcoming story blurb:

Jiang Rong transmigrated into the most pitiful young widow in the Qingyuan Marquis's household.

Her husband's elder brother coveted her, her sister-in-law and mother-in-law despised her, and the elders of the clan looked down on her village background and blamed her for bringing bad luck and killing her husband.

Even the frail little tagalong at her side was pointed at and called a bastard.

With such a disastrous start, Jiang Rong decided to take matters into her own hands. She moved out of the marquis's residence and set up a little food stall on the street with the child she'd picked up along the way.

When the people in the marquis's household heard, they waited to laugh at her.

Jiang Rong, formerly a food influencer with tens of millions of followers: ??? Who laughs at whom is still up in the air.

Curry fried rice, bon bon chicken, malatang, grilled fish, crawfish...

The Jiang family's signature dishes went from a little street stall to a restaurant, and business boomed as customers streamed in.

The once lofty Qingyuan Marquis's household sent people to buy food after catching the aroma, but even after waiting in line until their legs gave out, they couldn't get a place.

Jiang Rong: Don't think you can skip the line just because you're a mere marquis's household. Even the emperor himself would have to wait!

People said that Prince Yongning, Qi Heng, had fallen into ruin after his sister, Empress Qi, died and the crown prince went missing.

Once a promising young man, he started frequenting brothels and taverns, spending money like water, and became a complete libertine.

But no one knew that in his previous life, after Qi Heng had endured countless hardships to find his young nephew,

the poor child and the woman who had raised him were already lying in two new graves.

In this life, he watched the food stall of Jiang's Kitchen.

A woman in plain clothes deftly tossed the wok, a sheen of sweat on her brow.

Beside her, a little boy stood on tiptoe, helping her with the work as if he knew exactly what he was doing.

He only hoped the child could live a safe, peaceful life like this, free from worry.

As for those who had bullied, humiliated, and harmed them, he would settle the score on their behalf, one debt at a time.

A widow devoted to making money and raising a child x a seemingly flirtatious, gentle prince

Reader's Guide:

1. The dynasty is fictional. Assume that all the ingredients that ought to exist have already made their way to China.

2. Food, raising a child, and face-slapping. The focus is on the warm, everyday life of earning a living and raising a child. The male lead appears in Chapter 4, but he and the heroine meet officially a little later.

3. 1v1, both pure. Yes, you read that right: both leads are pure.

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