Ruyi Pavilion

Story Synopsis (Official Version) Financial elite Qiu Yingying transmigrates in one fell swoop and becomes the owner of "Ruyi Pavilion," the largest brothel in the capital of the Great Chu Dynasty, and is also gifted a fat landlord creditor who covets her beauty. Facing this crumbling mess, Qiu Yingying rolls up her sleeves and decides to use modern business thinking to deliver a "dimensional strike." She redefines "Ruyi Pavilion"—this is not a brothel; this is the Great Chu Dynasty's first male idol entertainment company. Xuan Yuanji, a qin player who is a remnant of the previous dynasty bearing a blood feud, is her first signed "talent trainee"; Mo Yuan, a thousand-faced assassin and the cold-hearted master of the Shadow Pavilion, is the "martial arts ace" she poached with a sky-high contract; Gu Changning, an arrogant little prince who knows no martial arts and is constantly bullied, is picked up by her to be the group's pampered "cute mascot"; Ning Yi, a ruthless general who returned from the border covered in wounds and disabilities, is tricked by her into being the free security "face of the group." Everyone thinks she is just a money-grubbing merchant, but when the capital's winds and clouds shift and imperial power topples, her and the beautiful men's shocking identities are revealed one by one. Only then do people realize that the grand scheme she laid out uses beautiful men as chess pieces and the world as the chessboard! — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: Ruyi Pavilion — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠