[Transmigrate into a book + reborn + food + marry first, fall in love later + punishing scumbags]
Modern food blogger Lin Wanwan transmigrates into an eighties-era melodrama she stayed up late criticizing, becoming a beautiful, much-adored side character who dies young.
From the start, her reborn cousin pushes her into a pond. She was supposed to be defiled by thugs and left disgraced, but through a twist of fate, Lu Chen, a rough-hewn laborer who will become the richest man in the future, saves her while soaking wet!
The whole village curses her for seducing a man, and her betrothed, a man who married into wealth, sneers, “Marry that poor loser and you'll starve to death!”
Lin Wanwan looks at the man's bulging muscles and throws her arms around his leg. “Hubby, cuddle me!”
Other people laugh at her for marrying a penniless man. She laughs at them for not understanding the true art of lying flat.
Lie flat? No! Lie flat and win!
A jar of chili sauce gets the whole village fed, and a bowl of sour plum soup turns the supply cooperative upside down.
She opens a snack shop, starts a food factory, and builds a food empire, making foodies across the country drool!
Greedy relatives want to mooch off her? She blasts them with chili water until they cry for their mothers!
Her reborn cousin wants to steal the position of an official's wife? She turns around and kicks the scumbag into the fire:
“Stay together forever. I hope you torment each other until you're old and gray!”
When Lu Chen transforms from a construction-site bricklayer into a real estate tycoon, reporters from around the world ask him the secret to his success.
The man holds his darling wife close, his gaze dark:
“I have my wife to thank... for that hug all those years ago.”
It's super good. I've read a lot of novels of this type, but this one is in the top three, although there aren't many more.