Chen Jinyue was once an outstanding graduate in cultural relics from Capital University. Her parents’ business went bankrupt, leaving behind a mountain of debt and a will that gave their son Chen Jie all cash and the family villa, while Chen Jinyue inherited the factory and unsold inventory. The grandparents transferred the money, arranged for Chen Jie to go abroad, and left Chen Jinyue alone to face creditors and over a hundred workers demanding unpaid wages. The workers threatened her, and the factory was stuck with a massive stock of cotton clothes and padded jackets in the middle of summer after a big client canceled. The grandparents sent “antiques” for her to sell, but they turned out to be fakes. In anger, Chen Jinyue kicked over the pile of broken porcelain, and a thumb-sized door ornament rolled out, perfectly crafted with mortise-and-tenon joints. She couldn’t identify its era or material. As she held the ornament and absentmindedly pushed open the tiny door, the office door also opened, and a young man in ancient attire stepped in—Jiang Qi’an, the sixth prince of the Jiang Kingdom. He claimed to be at the border where a once-in-a-century snow disaster had frozen the land, and he was desperate for warm clothing. Seeing the sample jackets and sweaters in the office, he offered a mutton-fat white jade pendant in exchange for all the samples. Chen Jinyue, wary but in need of money, agreed. Jiang Qi’an left, and when she chased after him, the workers outside claimed no one had come out—they had seen nothing. The first trade was complete, and Chen Jinyue suspected she had encountered something supernatural.She contacted an expert in antiques, Old Man Qian, who examined the jade pendant. He estimated it dated to the Wei, Jin, and Southern and Northern Dynasties period but could not identify its exact era because its craftsmanship and condition were far beyond anything known from that time. He offered 2.8 million yuan for it, which Chen Jinyue desperately accepted. With the money, she arranged to pay part of the wages and then began planning how to deal with other debts. Jiang Qi’an returned, this time with gold, silver, a thumb ring, and a jade hairpin, wanting to buy all remaining stock of winter clothes—over 140,000 pieces. Chen Jinyue, now sure that he came from a different world connected through her office, agreed. She arranged for workers to bring the entire warehouse stock to the office, trip after trip. Jiang Qi’an, amazed at the quantity and quality, promised to bring more money and asked for a transport fee of thirty percent to secure future deliveries. Chen Jinyue, seeing a way out of her financial crisis through this cross-dimensional trade, accepted. The first shipment of hundreds of sets of padded jackets, sweaters, and thermal underwear was prepared, and Jiang Qi’an took them away, believing he could save the freezing soldiers and civilians at the border. The workers, relieved that wages were coming, cooperated. Chen Jinyue realized that the tiny door ornament might be the key that allowed Jiang Qi’an to enter her world, and no one else could see the shop in his world—it appeared as an abandoned empty building to others. She began to see the endless possibilities of supplying modern goods to an ancient kingdom while solving her debts and even building a new future. The story sets up a dual narrative: a debt-ridden factory heiress and a prince battling a snow disaster, linked by a mysterious portal that allows essential trade. Chen Jinyue’s main conflict is her crippling debt and hostile relatives who abandoned her. Her core opportunity is the newfound trade with Jiang Qi’an, providing a market for her unsold goods and valuable antiques in return. Her growth will likely involve navigating this strange commerce, managing the factory, and perhaps changing the fate of the Jiang Kingdom. The text ends with the first large-scale trade underway, establishing a foundation for their ongoing collaboration.
