The 1980s Kitchen Queen: A Splendid Life on the Tip of Her Tongue

Ning Wan woke to the cries of her one-year-old little sister and discovered she had become a daughter of the Ning family in a rural village in the 1980s.

Looking at the bare earthen house and her malnourished little sister, she decided to make some steamed egg custard.

As soon as she finished whisking the eggs, a cold mechanical voice rang in her mind: [Gourmet Space System activated. Newbie task: Earn your first fortune within three days.]

Ning Wan stared at the bowl of egg mixture, lost in thought.

When she served her improved steamed egg custard, her father, Ning Zheng, teared up.

"Wanwan, this taste... It's what your mother ate the year she gave birth to you."

Beneath the banyan tree at the village entrance, a tall man in military uniform carried a ration coupon for special-issue powdered milk in his bag.

"I heard there's a girl in this village who can make eggs into all kinds of fancy dishes?"