Deng Shuhui was reborn in the 1960s, an era when people barely had enough to eat or wear. Her father despised her, her stepmother mistreated her, and even the marriage that could have given her a secure supply of state-rationed food was schemed away by her stepmother and given to her own daughter. Then her stepmother turned around and tried to sell her off to a lame villager for the bride price!
A disastrous start? No worries! By chance, she activated a “God-Tier Gourmet Space” with a drop of her blood. She could take an unlimited supply of goods from a modern supermarket, from mountains of rice, flour, cooking oil, and other essentials to a fully equipped smart kitchen that could even light its own stove!
From then on, Deng Shuhui began a life of cheating her way to success, wielding a wok in one hand and dishing out face-slaps with the other. While her stepsister was starving and emptying chamber pots at her in-laws’ home, Deng Shuhui was eating braised pig trotters at her parents’ house and counting money. Her father called her unfilial, so she led the whole village in founding a food factory and became its director, putting herself far beyond his reach!
But why did that gloomy, gruff man who’d been sent down from the city keep vaulting over her wall whenever he caught the smell of her cooking?
“Shuhui, I’ve got grain coupons valid across the whole country and everything I own. Could they buy me a meal of your braised pork... and you?”
Yes, the author should be very interested in food. I drooled after reading many traditional farm food [admiration]. The subject matter is novel and the narrative is plain, but it has a strong sense of life.