Running a General Store After the Spiritual Qi Revival

Known fact: Decent people don't write diaries. From this, we can infer that diaries are all written by indecent people. We can further conclude that the diaries written by indecent people must be full of indecent content. The problem: After the spiritual qi revival, the only cultivation reference material the owner of the Yunwen General Store, Su Shu, can find and trust is this very indecent diary. Without it, she'll have to stumble around blindly. Conclusion: ...She'll make do with it. Having something to refer to is still a little better than having nothing... probably? Additional information: 1 The no-CP category only means that the protagonist of this story, Su Shu, has no romantic pairing. Important characters in some of the individual stories may have romance plots, and some of those romances may be described in considerable detail. 2 This story is divided into units by events, rather than written strictly in chronological order. Since some events span long periods, the timelines of different units may overlap or intersect. For instance, Unit A may take place from January to May, Unit B in February of the same year, and Unit C from April to June. The chapters are arranged with Unit A first and Unit B afterward. But according to the order of events, the problem the protagonist has already resolved by the later part of Unit A may still be troubling her in Unit B. So please follow the timeline given within each unit while reading, rather than assuming that events in earlier chapters must have happened before those in later chapters. 3 This story has frequent paragraph breaks, usually one sentence per paragraph and sometimes half a sentence per paragraph. Character dialogue is formatted the same way. It's a personal habit I've picked up: I have a "can't help breaking up any passage that looks a little long" problem. There's no sign of it going away, and it may get worse. Fortunately, Jinjiang VIP chapters charge by word count, not number of paragraphs, so this habit is merely odd. It isn't an attempt to cheat readers out of their money. 4 The current national standard, GB/T 15834-2011, "Usage of Punctuation Marks," section 4.8.3.5, states: For a quotation set apart as its own paragraph, if it consists of just one paragraph, use quotation marks at both the beginning and end. If it has more than one paragraph, use an opening quotation mark only at the start of each paragraph, and a closing quotation mark only at the end of the final paragraph. Because of the habit mentioned in point three, and because some characters in this story occasionally make long speeches, this rule, which is rarely used in other stories, will be used frequently here. In other words, character dialogue will be formatted like this: XX says: "... "... "..." When the speech of multiple people is put together, the closing quotation mark at the end of an intermediate paragraph signals the end of one person's speech, with the next paragraph belonging to someone else. For example: A group of people say: "... "..." "..." The first two paragraphs are from the same person, and the third is from someone else. Furthermore, for the sake of keeping the formatting consistent throughout the story, even when a character only says a few words at once, I'll still use this paragraph break format: XX says: "..." Instead of the more conventional format: XX says: "..." ("A Demonstration of How One Small Change Can Affect Everything" and "How an Author with OCD Gradually Made Their Article's Formatting So Unusual It Became Bizarre") In short, these formats may look awkward to many readers because they're so uncommon, but they aren't actually incorrect. Theme: Find what remains constant amid change, and stay grounded within yourself.