Ruyi Workshop

Story Synopsis (Official Version)

Qiu Yingying, a financial whiz, transmigrates into the past and becomes the owner of Ruyi House, the biggest brothel in the capital of the Great Chu Dynasty. To top it off, she inherits a fat creditor who lusts after her beauty.

Faced with a failing business on the brink of collapse, Qiu Yingying rolls up her sleeves and decides to use modern business strategies to crush the competition. She rebrands Ruyi House: it is no brothel, but the Great Chu Dynasty's first boy-band entertainment agency.

Xuanyuan Ji, a zither player descended from the former dynasty's royal line and burdened with a blood feud, is the first "talent trainee" she signs.

Mo Yuan, a cold-hearted leader of the Shadow Pavilion and a master of disguise and assassination, is the "martial arts ace" she poaches with a sky-high contract.

Gu Changning, an arrogant little prince who knows no martial arts and is relentlessly bullied, is taken in to become the group's "adorable mascot."

Ning Yi, a cold and ruthless general who returns from the borderlands crippled and covered in injuries, is tricked into providing free security as the group's "visual centerpiece."

Everyone thinks she is merely a merchant who loves money above all else. But as the capital is swept by turmoil and imperial power collapses, the astonishing identities of her handsome men are revealed one by one. Only then do people realize that the grand scheme she has laid out uses handsome men as its pieces and the realm as its chessboard!