After Being Exiled, I Made a Fortune Selling Food at a Street Stall

After competing in the semifinals of the Blue Star’s top chef competition, Qiao Ling gets into a car accident on her way back to the hotel. She transmigrates into the illegitimate second daughter of the Changrong Marquis’s household, who is being sent to marry in place of her elder sister. The second daughter was born in a difficult labor to a maid who seduced her way into her master’s bed. Her father doesn’t care for her, her mother doesn’t love her, and she grew up being bullied by her elder sister. Her sister’s future in-laws, the Duke of England’s family, anger the new emperor and are exiled. So Qiao Ling is the one who gets sent to marry into their family. Luckily, what everyone else calls exile is just a trip home for her. Her mother-in-law says there’s nothing good to eat here? Qiao Ling won’t stand for that. She serves up Hainan’s four famous dishes, seafood feasts, thousands of local snacks, and delicacies from across Southeast Asia. Who could resist? With her cooking skills, Qiao Ling opens a chain of restaurants, buys fields, land, and mansions, and returns to a life of luxury. Her tall, handsome husband may not let her get away with taking advantage of him, and he may disappear without a trace for a year or eighteen months at a time, but it doesn’t matter. She loves good food more than handsome men, and her in-laws are all on her side. If he dares to go fool around, his mother will be the first to break his legs. She thought life would continue to flourish like this, but then news arrives from afar that the rebels have succeeded. When the Qiongzhou governor brings people to kneel and welcome her back to the palace, Qiao Ling finally realizes: the rebel was me? After being reborn, Qiao Zhu swears she will never marry Xiao Shuo. He’s a disaster incarnate. He brought ruin to the Xiao family, then brought ruin to her. So what if he spent five years biding his time before successfully rebelling and founding a new dynasty? In the end, he still met a divine punishment from the heavens and died in battle. She won’t marry the current emperor either. She’ll marry the ultimate winner: the Prince of Ren’s heir, who is currently one of the capital’s spoiled young dandies. Once her husband is raised to the throne, she’ll be empress. But when the time comes, she discovers that everything has changed!