Daily Life Running a Jiangnan Tavern

★ Serializing in the author's collection ★ The Daily Life of the Eighth Imperial Consort

☆ ★ Blurb ★ ☆

Blurb 1:

Liang Zhao'er transmigrates into an imperial-exam novel as the male lead's wicked concubine stepmother. After her sixty-year-old consumptive husband dies, she becomes a widow and prepares to happily start a new life.

Yangzhou is a city of beautiful sights, with flowers and willows along both banks and towers lining the road.

With ten thousand strings of cash at her waist, she can enjoy a night market full of lanterns and lofty buildings filled with beautiful women.

She rents a restaurant near the wharf from a broker and soon gets it thriving.

There are plenty of customers coming and going: porters, escorts, and scholars entering the city to sit the exams...

The wicked stepmother transforms into a sweetheart adored by all, and her doorway is always crowded with people eating, chatting, and joking around.

Starting with a street stall, Liang Zhao'er builds her way up to the greatest restaurant in Jiangnan. She gains both fame and fortune, fills her pockets, and becomes the first female courtesan in Yangzhou.

Blurb 2:

One day, Liang Zhao'er suddenly discovers that the Ruyi Restaurant is full of hidden talent. Every employee has an extraordinary background:

The personal disciple of Ju Sandao, master of Huaiyang cuisine (limping edition)

A former top courtesan of the Green Sleeve House

A notorious martial-world thief and the young master of the Xinglong Escort Agency (after his family estate was seized)

The only genuinely ordinary female accountant (with an older brother who draws his blade and kills at the slightest provocation)

Liang Zhao'er feels the pressure mounting, so she wields her shovel even more often and expands the business even further. As the owner, she can't let her employees outshine her.

Blurb 3:

Shen Du was pursued by assassins all the way and only survived by playing dead. He drifted down the Yangtze, but halfway along, he realized something was wrong. He might actually be about to die.

Shen Du promised to give all the money he had on him to a greedy young cook if she'd save his life. But he forgot to tell her that he didn't have a single coin to his name.

Unable to pay his debt, Shen Du is held by the unscrupulous cook and forced into hard labor. After more than ten years roaming the martial world, has he really been reduced to a mere waiter?

Shen Du: "This is completely beneath my station."

Shen Du thinks about running away every day. Several times, he sneaks out while the owner is asleep, but the people after him never let up and drive him right back.

When in Rome, make yourself at home. He'll work to pay off his debt first.

The more he works, the deeper his debt gets, until he ends up giving himself to her as well.

Shen Du: "I'm going to be this landlady's husband, no matter what!"

★ Reader's Guide ★

1. Fictional dynasty.

2. The heroine is adored by everyone.

3. This is my first novel, and it has plenty of flaws. Please go easy on me.

Theme: Hard work brings rewards