A Pastry Shop in Chang'an

Do you have a wish you especially want to come true? Do you want the most beautiful face, the greatest intelligence, the most devoted husband, or the most beautiful woman...? On the busiest commercial street in Chang'an's West Market stands a pastry shop. The beautiful owner might have just what you want.

One beautiful evening, Shen Mian stumbled into the shop. She drank a cup of tea poured by the beautiful owner herself and bought a packet of pastries she had made by hand. But one bite was enough to show Shen Mian she had been swindled. How could anyone charge her ten taels of silver for pastries this awful? A crook, an absolute crook!

Later, she discovered that the beautiful owner also dealt in mysterious, shady business. And the customers who came to visit all seemed to have secrets of their own...