Chapter Summaries

After inheriting the rundown Clear Breeze Temple, unemployed Yun Zhaozhao learned that she would need to rebuild it to claim a million yuan and avoid being left with its debts. Unable to perform Taoist services and unsure how to improve the temple, she eventually posted a recruitment ad.

• Yun Zhaozhao moved into Clear Breeze Temple, cleaned its neglected grounds and rooms, and registered as its heir with the Taoist Association.
• Lawyer Zhang told Yun Zhaozhao that the old lady had left her a million yuan if she made the temple bigger and stronger, and that the temple also carried debts.
• Yun Zhaozhao learned she could receive about one hundred thousand yuan in startup funding in installments as she completed goals, while the million-yuan reward was separate.
• After struggling with the temple's debts and her lack of Taoist skills, Yun Zhaozhao decided to lie flat and let the temple rot.
• After three days of doing nothing, Yun Zhaozhao posted her first recruitment ad on a job website.

Yun Zhaozhao struggled to recruit staff for Qingfeng Temple until Daoist Chang Kong arrived and accepted a place there. His lack of spiritual skills and talent for cooking surprised her, and the chapter ended with him planning a vegetarian noodle breakfast.

• Yun Zhaozhao failed to recruit anyone online, arranged for a village woman to deliver vegetables, and then spotted a Daoist at Qingfeng Temple.
• Yun Zhaozhao hired Wang Gaorui, who went by Daoist sobriquet Changkong, before learning that he could not draw talismans, tell fortunes, or catch ghosts.
• Daoist Chang Kong explained that his former master had dismissed him because his appetite damaged the image of Daoist cultivation.
• Yun Zhaozhao welcomed Daoist Chang Kong with instant noodles, and he revealed that his bamboo basket contained cookware and seasonings rather than clothes or bedding.
• Daoist Chang Kong cooked radish fritters and stir-fried greens, and Yun Zhaozhao enjoyed the meal as he offered to make vegetarian noodles for breakfast.

Yun Zhaozhao tried to start fortune-telling services at Clear Breeze Temple but, unable to tell fortunes, bought a crash-course book and arranged a group meal for her former classmate Xu Ping’s coworkers. As the guests prepared to visit, Yun Zhaozhao and Daoist Chang Kong got the temple dining hall ready for its first large meal.

• Yun Zhaozhao learned that Daoist Chang Kong could not tell fortunes, so she went to town and bought Fortune-Telling Crash Course in 30 Days.
• Yun Zhaozhao ran into Xu Ping, who believed Yun Zhaozhao worked at Qingfeng Park, and agreed to arrange a meal for Xu Ping’s coworkers.
• Yun Zhaozhao persuaded Daoist Chang Kong to cook for the group and hired the older woman who delivered vegetables to help in the kitchen.
• Xu Ping’s coworkers agreed to eat at Clear Breeze Temple despite their doubts about the temple meal.
• Yun Zhaozhao cleaned and decorated the dining hall while Daoist Chang Kong and the older woman prepared for the guests.

Yun Zhaozhao and Daoist Chang Kong prepared Clear Breeze Temple for Xu Ping’s company lunch, hoping the meal would bring in customers. The diners loved the food and left praising Daoist Chang Kong’s cooking, giving the temple a promising first restaurant outing.

• Yun Zhaozhao finished tidying the dining hall, prepared tea and watermelon, and welcomed Xu Ping’s group to Clear Breeze Temple.
• Xu Ping led her coworkers through the temple and pretended not to know Yun Zhaozhao when they met.
• Yun Zhaozhao told the diners that the temple belonged to her, surprising Xu Ping and her colleagues.
• Daoist Chang Kong served ten dishes and a soup, including meat and seafood, and the diners enthusiastically ate everything.
• The diners asked for more dishes, but Daoist Chang Kong declined, and they paid and left praising his cooking.

Yun Zhaozhao expanded Clear Breeze Temple’s business, earned money, and planned improvements while finding a new way to attract visitors with Daoist Chang Kong’s ginkgo cakes. The temple began renovations and selling the cakes as Lawyer Wang sent his assistant to inspect it.

• Yun Zhaozhao took Daoist Chang Kong to the city, had new robes made, and persuaded him to wear an advertisement for Clear Breeze Temple in exchange for extra meat.
• Daoist Chang Kong promoted Clear Breeze Temple to passersby, while Yun Zhaozhao sent cafeteria photos and the day’s receipts to Lawyer Wang, who transferred more money.
• Yun Zhaozhao divided the nearly ten thousand yuan between temple repairs, publicity, and daily expenses, and planned to stock the pond with edible fish.
• Yun Zhaozhao and Daoist Chang Kong made ginkgo cakes from nuts gathered in the temple courtyard, and Yun Zhaozhao recorded the process.
• Yun Zhaozhao ordered takeaway packaging decorated with Clear Breeze Temple illustrations and hired workers to renovate the temple while Daoist Chang Kong sold ginkgo cakes outside.
• Lawyer Wang, unable to visit because of work, sent his assistant to inspect Clear Breeze Temple.

Yun Zhaozhao and Daoist Chang Kong prepared for future temple food sales while Lawyer Wang’s wife traveled to Clear Breeze Temple to buy more ginkgo cakes. The chapter left Mrs. Wang following the smell of roasting pork and discovering Yun Zhaozhao and Daoist Chang Kong in the courtyard.

• Lawyer Wang’s assistant bought Daoist Chang Kong’s ginkgo cakes, and Lawyer Wang and his colleagues enjoyed them.
• Lawyer Wang brought cakes home, and Mrs. Wang liked them enough to plan a trip to Clear Breeze Temple for more.
• Yun Zhaozhao and Daoist Chang Kong counted their cake earnings and discussed selling seasonal bamboo shoots and flower-based treats after the ginkgo nuts ran out.
• Yun Zhaozhao mailed ginkgo cakes to Xu Ping, collected Daoist Chang Kong’s new robes, fish fry, and pork, and read a fortune-telling book while Daoist Chang Kong cured meat.
• Mrs. Wang drove to Qingfeng Park with other mothers and went to Clear Breeze Temple to buy ginkgo cakes.
• Mrs. Wang followed the aroma of roasting pork and found Yun Zhaozhao reading beneath a ginkgo tree while Daoist Chang Kong roasted meat.

Yun Zhaozhao and Daoist Chang Kong sold ginkgo cakes and arranged to sell smoked pork to Mrs. Wang, then shifted to making cotton rose pastries when their ginkgo nuts ran out. Yun Zhaozhao recruited Zhao Yumei to promote Daoist Chang Kong’s cooking, and a photography enthusiast learned where Clear Breeze Temple was after spotting its scenery in her video.

• Mrs. Wang bought ten bags of ginkgo cakes and left her contact details to buy Daoist Chang Kong’s smoked pork and arrange delivery.
• Mrs. Wang shared the ginkgo cakes with her picnic group, and Zhao Yumei praised their soft texture and lingering flavor.
• After Clear Breeze Temple ran out of ginkgo nuts, Daoist Chang Kong began making pink cotton rose pastries, which Yun Zhaozhao filmed.
• Yun Zhaozhao persuaded Zhao Yumei to share a cooking video in her dessert group in exchange for free lessons and pastries.
• Xu Fugui spotted the temple scenery in Zhao Yumei’s video and asked where it was; Zhao Yumei told him it was Clear Breeze Temple in Qingfeng Park.
• Daoist Chang Kong and Yun Zhaozhao moved their cotton rose pastry stall to the entrance of Qingfeng Park.

Yun Zhaozhao welcomed Xu Fugui and his photography group to Clear Breeze Temple, sold them lunch, and decided the temple needed better security. Daoist Chang Kong returned from town with Jingting instead of cameras, and Yun let the young Daoist stay at the temple.

• Xu Fugui and his photography group took pictures at Clear Breeze Temple, and Yun Zhaozhao welcomed them with tea.
• The aroma of Daoist Chang Kong's cooking persuaded Xu Fugui and his friends to buy lunch, leaving Chang Kong to cook for them before eating himself.
• After Xu Ping warned Yun Zhaozhao to be careful living alone, Yun suggested installing security cameras, and Chang Kong agreed to buy them.
• Chang Kong returned from town with Jingting, explaining that he had decided a person could guard the temple better than cameras.
• Jingting told Yun Zhaozhao that his master had died and that his temple had been demolished while he was away; Yun let him stay and share Chang Kong's room.
• Yun learned that Jingting, like Chang Kong, could not offer useful Daoist skills and mainly ate and meditated.

Yun Zhaozhao worried that Jingting’s foul-mouthed intervention would bring trouble to Clear Breeze Temple, but several days passed without incident. The temple’s noisy morning gave way to two visitors at noon, including Xu Fugui, who reported that his photographs of Clear Breeze Temple had appeared in the local newspaper.

• Yun Zhaozhao warned Jingting not to curse people without cause, and Jingting claimed he had a good temper.
• Daoist Chang Kong cursed sparrows for stealing his corn, then had Jingting join in.
• Mrs. Wang arrived to collect the smoked cured pork she had ordered.
• Xu Fugui visited Clear Breeze Temple and told Yun Zhaozhao that his photographs of the temple had been published in the local newspaper.

Yun Zhaozhao organized Clear Breeze Temple’s first offering festival as a food feature for newspaper editor Qin Yajun, hoping to publicize Daoist Chang Kong’s cooking. The festival began with striking edible offerings that impressed Qin Yajun, while Mrs. Wang and Lawyer Wang arrived late after his work call delayed them.

• Xu Fugui told Yun Zhaozhao that a newspaper food editor wanted to interview Daoist Chang Kong, and Yun scheduled the interview for a week later.
• Yun Zhaozhao planned an Earth Mother Goddess offering festival with Daoist Chang Kong, who proposed five-colored rice and cakes, and Clear Breeze Temple’s regular visitors agreed to attend.
• Mrs. Wang explained to Lawyer Wang that the offering festival was also Clear Breeze Temple’s first food festival.
• On the festival morning, Jingting cleaned the temple, while Daoist Chang Kong and Yun Zhaozhao prepared after a sleepless night.
• Qin Yajun arrived first and admired Daoist Chang Kong’s five-colored cake and edible offering display, including a chocolate flowerpot and cucumber bamboo.
• Xu Fugui arrived with his photography group and asked whether the offering altar was edible, while Mrs. Wang and Lawyer Wang arrived late after his work call delayed them.

After Clear Breeze Temple's sacrificial festival, Yun Zhaozhao and Daoist Chang Kong rested while Jingting volunteered to sell the remaining hibiscus cakes outside Qingfeng Park. As Jingting started his first stall shift, an unusual group of people arrived at the park entrance.

• Lawyer Wang advised Yun Zhaozhao to develop services beyond food, and she proposed hiring a rent-a-roaster to argue with people for clients.
• Qin Yajun sampled Daoist Chang Kong's elaborate dishes and told Xu Fugui that she would have something to write about.
• After the festival, Yun Zhaozhao and Daoist Chang Kong slept, while Jingting cleaned the temple and prepared leftovers for breakfast.
• Jingting offered to sell the temple's remaining hibiscus cakes, and Yun Zhaozhao reluctantly allowed him to set up a stall outside Qingfeng Park.
• Jingting corrected the security guard when he called Daoist Chang Kong a fat Taoist and told him that he was running the stall while the others rested.
• A group of plainly dressed people carrying bamboo baskets and back baskets began arriving at Qingfeng Park's entrance.

Jingting provoked villagers who were digging up bamboo shoots, was escorted back to Clear Breeze Temple by the police, and later helped discourage most of them from returning. As Daoist Chang Kong prepared hawthorn wine and the temple’s business grew, Yun Zhaozhao proposed making bamboo carvings to sell.

• Jingting warned the villagers that Qingfeng Park’s bamboo shoots brought bad luck and shortened lives, then provoked them until they chased him and the security guard called the police.
• The police escorted Jingting back to Clear Breeze Temple, where Yun Zhaozhao checked that he was unharmed and went to collect the hibiscus cakes.
• The security guard bought all the hibiscus cakes to thank Jingting, and most villagers stopped digging up bamboo shoots after hearing his warnings.
• Daoist Chang Kong took Jingting up Clear Breeze Mountain to gather wild hawthorns and began brewing hawthorn wine.
• After the temple’s visitor numbers and sales increased, Yun Zhaozhao suggested that Daoist Chang Kong carve bamboo into items such as bookmarks and brush holders to sell.

Yun Zhaozhao and Daoist Chang Kong made bamboo handicrafts for Clear Breeze Temple and sold them to the temple’s customers. Xu Fugui’s daughter Xu Tingting suspected the temple was a scam ring, investigated it with classmates, and learned that Yun Zhaozhao was the temple master.

• Daoist Chang Kong approved Yun Zhaozhao’s idea to sell bamboo handicrafts and carved temple scenes and study verses into bamboo leaves and brush holders.
• Yun Zhaozhao created a customer group called “Clear Breeze Temple First-Generation Shareholders” and accepted requests for custom inscriptions.
• Xu Fugui gave his daughter Xu Tingting a brush holder and bookmark, and she became suspicious after seeing the temple’s customer group on his phone.
• Xu Tingting secretly brought four classmates to Clear Breeze Temple to investigate whether it was a scam ring.
• Xu Tingting asked Yun Zhaozhao about the temple, and Yun revealed that she was its temple master.

Xu Tingting and her classmates visited Clear Breeze Temple, where Yun Zhaozhao cleared up their fraud accusation and won them over with food. As the temple expanded its food business and hired Xiaojiu, Lawyer Wang invited Yun Zhaozhao to a Taoist Cultural Exchange Conference to encourage her to focus on Taoist culture.

• Yun Zhaozhao showed Xu Tingting and her classmates Clear Breeze Temple’s legal documents, then served them First Love Hawthorn Cake, which they bought before leaving and agreed to return for holiday work.
• Jingting suggested calling sugarcane “Scumbag Fruit,” inspiring Daoist Chang Kong to invent sugarcane shrimp.
• Yun Zhaozhao and Jingting roasted sugarcane and sweet potatoes in a cleaned incense burner, and the temple’s people ate the first batch before it could be sold.
• Yun Zhaozhao hired Xiaojiu as a salesperson, freeing Jingting to clean and Daoist Chang Kong to focus on food and merchandise.
• Lawyer Wang invited Yun Zhaozhao to a Taoist Cultural Exchange Conference and urged her to learn from other temples and develop Clear Breeze Temple beyond selling goods.

Yun Zhaozhao attended a Taoist conference at True Yang Temple on Mount Tiantai, where she discovered that the speeches offered little practical advice and the three-day gathering expected participants to endure long stretches without food. Her box of Daoist Chang Kong’s mala duck necks and braised beef brought the morning session to an early end, and she later promoted Clear Breeze Temple’s cooking while eating lunch.

• Yun Zhaozhao accepted Lawyer Wang’s invitation to attend a Taoist conference, and Daoist Chang Kong packed food for her.
• Yun Zhaozhao arrived at True Yang Temple, sensed that the prominent attendees looked down on Clear Breeze Temple, and waited for the conference to begin.
• Yun Zhaozhao listened to speeches about organizations and the future of Taoism, then learned from a nearby priest that the conference would last three days and had no planned meal break.
• Yun Zhaozhao opened her lunch box, releasing the aroma of mala duck necks and braised beef and causing the morning conference to end early.
• Yun Zhaozhao found True Yang Temple’s vegetarian noodles bland, ate them with Daoist Chang Kong’s food, and invited other attendees to try Clear Breeze Temple’s cooking.

Yun Zhaozhao promoted Clear Breeze Temple’s food at a Daoist conference and made several new contacts. While she was away, Jingting took over reception and tried to cheer up visitors by interpreting fortune sticks, which Xiaojiu discovered were all marked supreme luck.

• Yun Zhaozhao shared Clear Breeze Temple’s food at the conference, won the interest of other attendees, and invited them to visit the temple.
• Daoist Chang Kong made sunflower seed crisps for Yun Zhaozhao to distribute at the conference, and Lawyer Wang learned she had been advertising the temple’s food.
• Daoist Chang Kong left Jingting in charge of reception and asked Xiaojiu to keep an eye on him.
• Jingting offered an unhappy woman encouragement and interpreted her fortune stick as supreme luck, sending her away in better spirits.
• Jingting told Xiaojiu her fortune sticks promised romance, but she found every stick in the tube was marked supreme luck and refused to speak to him.

After the Taoist conference, Yun Zhaozhao created promotional materials for Clear Breeze Temple and recruited Xu Tingting and Xie Yu to distribute flyers. Impressed by Daoist Chang Kong’s cooking, the two students accepted Yun Zhaozhao’s generous offer to become the temple’s first campus representatives.

• Xiaojiu praised Yun Zhaozhao’s compassionate approach to giving worshippers peace of mind.
• After the Taoist conference, Yun Zhaozhao planned business cards, flyers, and a revamped canteen menu with the temple staff.
• Xu Tingting recruited Xie Yu to help hand out flyers, while her father Xu Fugui urged her to go for the included meals.
• Xu Tingting and Xie Yu tasted Daoist Chang Kong’s boxed lunches and praised his cooking.
• Yun Zhaozhao offered Xu Tingting and Xie Yu campus representative roles, and both accepted after she promised free meals, future internship opportunities, and flexible merchandise returns.

Yun Zhaozhao and the Clear Breeze Temple staff turned bamboo tubes into talisman blind boxes to sell to university students, while the temple’s own boxes included food prizes. As the new merchandise caught on at the temple and Daoist Chang Kong’s hawthorn wine became ready, Yun Zhaozhao tempted her Daoist conference friends with photos of braised beef.

• Yun Zhaozhao invited Xu Tingting and Xie Yu to help decide what Clear Breeze Temple should sell on university campuses, and Jingting suggested making talismans.
• Jingting wrote several novelty talismans, including a guaranteed-pass talisman, and Yun Zhaozhao approved using them in bamboo-tube blind boxes.
• Yun Zhaozhao and the temple staff made talisman tubes with bamboo lids and secret-edition bamboo-leaf talismans, then gave them to Xu Tingting and Xie Yu to sell.
• Xu Tingting advertised the blind boxes on University A’s campus forum, while Yun Zhaozhao suggested giving free sets to influential students in exchange for WeChat Moments promotions.
• The revamped blind boxes became popular at Clear Breeze Temple after Yun Zhaozhao made the temple’s secret edition a food gift package.
• Daoist Chang Kong’s hawthorn wine was ready, and Yun Zhaozhao sent her Daoist conference friends photos of braised beef to lure them to Clear Breeze Temple.

Yun Zhaozhao started Clear Breeze Temple’s video account, which gained followers after Jingting argued with commenters and began taking paid insult commissions. Jingting’s first livestreamed job ended with him verbally tearing into a hairdresser who had insulted a young woman’s appearance.

• Yun Zhaozhao invited Daoist Qingxin and other Daoist friends to Clear Breeze Temple, where Qingxin offered to promote the temple through his video channel.
• Yun Zhaozhao created a video account and uploaded cooking footage, but the videos initially received no engagement.
• Yun Zhaozhao handed the account to Jingting, who gained nearly a thousand followers by arguing with a critic of the temple’s food.
• Yun Zhaozhao allowed Jingting to take paid online insult commissions as long as he kept his language civil.
• Jingting livestreamed his first commission and insulted a hairdresser who had mocked a young woman’s appearance.

Yun Zhaozhao and Clear Breeze Temple helped villagers with free pastries and used new income to improve the temple, pay bonuses, and plant trees and vegetables. As Yun Zhaozhao grew more attached to the temple, Daoist Chang Kong worked on a merit wooden fish for Jingting.

• Jingting finished a paid livestream cursing session, then asked Daoist Chang Kong to hurry up and steam the plum blossom cakes.
• Yun Zhaozhao, Jingting, and the vegetable-delivery woman brought the cakes to villagers and distributed a flyer promising free pastries twice each lunar month to elderly people and children.
• Lawyer Wang learned that Xu Tingting and Xie Yu were selling talisman blind boxes for Clear Breeze Temple and sent Yun Zhaozhao another payment.
• Yun Zhaozhao divided the money among temple improvements, employee year-end bonuses, and reserve funds, then hired workers to clear land and plant fruit trees and vegetables.
• Daoist Chang Kong started making a merit wooden fish for Jingting while Yun Zhaozhao supervised the work in the back courtyard.