Daily Life of a Frontier Bride Running a Business

[The next book, "After Becoming the Cool Regent's Lifesaver," is coming soon. Please add it to your reading list!]

Blurb:

[Money-loving, scheming, quick-witted tavern owner x tough, tragic, lovesick general]

Yu Wan is the owner of a popular modern barbecue restaurant. One day, she transmigrates to a remote border town in ancient times, in the midst of war and chaos.

Her father and elder brother have gone to war and there has been no word from them. Her mother is frail, her younger brother is still a child, and she has no money. A terrible hand from the start.

Luckily, a food System helps her get back into her old line of work. With no ingredients available, she can only head into the mountains in the depths of winter and try her luck. There, she unexpectedly finds a man being hunted by a group of assassins. She helps him hide, and in return, he gives her a pheasant.

Once she's earned her first pot of gold, her restaurant gradually becomes well known. But people start coveting her cooking and her secret recipes. They try assassination, framing, threats, and bribery, then turn around and bite the hand that helped them.

If they want to fight her, she'll fight back until they meet a truly miserable end!

Before long, Yu Wan and her restaurant become a popular destination for the elite, and her good name spreads far and wide. She thinks her days as a rich woman are finally secure, but now someone has their eye on her restaurant again? No problem. She's no pushover. Whoever wrongs her will pay tenfold!

Her business expands, and her team grows. She hires people regardless of their social standing. As long as they're hardworking and honest, they'll receive generous compensation. Before long, princes and ministers from every kingdom come to her restaurant in disguise, wearing secret identities to enjoy a better meal. Then, while eating, they start fighting.

Yu Wan rushes out of the kitchen, slaps her little hand down on the table, and shouts, "Stop fighting! Listen to me!"

Eventually, she becomes the richest person in the country, with branches all over the land. Every day, she counts money until her cheeks ache from smiling.

But the frail worker she took in at the start has already revealed his secret identity. Why is he still refusing to leave?

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After He Jing and his elite squad assassinate the crown prince of an enemy kingdom, they are pursued by several groups at once.

That day, on a snowy mountain, he is at the end of his strength. Even so, he manages to kill several assassins before meeting a young woman. Her features are as lovely as a painting, her clothes are thin, and her frame is slight. She's both timid and brave. Terrified when she sees him leave no survivors, she turns to run, but when she hears that another group of assassins is coming, she returns without hesitation to help him hide.

Adorable!

Though gravely wounded, when the woman asks for help catching a pheasant, of course he has to grant her wish! After she takes him in, he discovers that she's clever and capable, always coming up with new ideas as she works to make her restaurant bigger and better. But somehow, none of her countless plans have anything to do with him.

Heartbreaking!

He is a worker at her restaurant, her protector, and her devoted follower for life. He works hard and does his best to impress her, and at last, he earns the rightful title of her husband.

His wife is devoted to her career, so he follows her lead and obediently keeps their bed warm.

[Reading Guide]

1. The story is set in a fictional world, with plenty of creative liberties. Please don't nitpick the details.

2. One-on-one romance, happy ending.

Here is the blurb for "After Becoming the Cool Regent's Lifesaver":

Jiang Zhiqiao is an orphan who has been raised in her maternal grandparents' home since childhood.

Though her fiancé is not long for this world, she doesn't mind. Being a nominal young nobleman's wife and enjoying a comfortable life for the rest of her days sounds just fine. Still, she makes plans for both possibilities, keeping a low profile and staying mysterious as she quietly makes money.

At the palace banquet on the night before her wedding, the emperor inexplicably confers a noble title upon her, and the empress dowager rewards her with a thousand taels of gold.

She hasn't done a thing, and yet gifts are falling from the sky?

Life in ancient times isn't so bad after all.

She never imagined she would have anything to do with the powerful Regent.

Until he steals her wedding sedan on her wedding day.

Jiang Zhiqiao has seen him cut people down without hesitation, killing countless people.

She spends her days in fear and trepidation. At last, on a dark and windy night, she tries to sneak away over the wall, only to run right into him.

She glances at the bloodied head on the ground, and tears stream uncontrollably down her face.

"I won't dare do it again..."

He doesn't do anything to her. From then on, he keeps her close, watching her every moment...

The Regent is elegant and handsome, slim when dressed and sporting a six-pack when undressed, but he has a cold and eccentric temperament. He provides her with the finest food, clothing, and comforts, and grants her every wish. The only thing he won't do is sleep with her. He even asks if she wants the new top scholar, the man the princess royal can't have.

Jiang Zhiqiao: Aren't I your princess consort?

Chu Jingrong: You don't have to be.

Jiang Zhiqiao: ???

She racks her brains, but still can't figure out what he wants.

Chu Jingrong has never forgotten the coldest winter of many years ago, when he was starving to death and a little girl brought him a steaming bowl of noodles.

Now, he has won countless military victories, made a name for himself far and wide, and become the Regent who assists the new emperor.

When he learns that his benefactor's wishes aren't going well, of course he wants to repay her kindness.

He will personally change her fate and ensure she enjoys wealth and honor for the rest of her life.

He uses the emperor's influence to grant her status, the empress dowager's to give her wealth, and brings fine men to her side.

Later, he changes his mind about the last part.

Theme: Wherever and whenever you are, love life and reach for the light. Happiness is something you create with your own hands