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Foodie Su Niantang transmigrates into a book, becoming the wicked mother with the same name in a period novel, a woman hated by people and dogs alike! Her husband is a handsome army officer stationed with his unit year-round, while back home she has twin four-year-old boys and a two-year-old youngest child. As her memories return, Su Niantang wants to throttle her predecessor. How could anyone lay a hand on such adorable children, beating and berating them at every turn? They are so thin and pale from hunger. Seeing the children look at her with fear and longing for a mother's love breaks her heart.
Fortunately, a golden finger drops from the sky: her ancestral pocket dimension is fully stocked! There is an endless supply of fine rice, white flour, chicken, duck, fish, meat, candy, and snacks. While other families gnaw on rough steamed buns and drink watery vegetable porridge, Su Niantang closes the door and makes meatball stew, steamed eggs, crisp little pastries, and fruit bowls for her little ones. If anyone asks, she says their father's allowance is generous!
Her awful second sister-in-law tries to freeload? She gives her a tongue-lashing! A reborn supporting actress tries to steal the male lead and accuse her of abusing the children? She slaps the evidence right in her face! With a spatula in one hand to raise her children and the black market in the other to make money, Su Niantang's life flourishes.
Far away, the soldier receives a letter from home: Has his wife somehow become a different person? When he finally returns on leave, he finds a beautiful, spirited wife, three adorable, chubby sons, and... himself, desperate to stay by his wife's side. “Honey, can I bring you and the kids with me when I report back to my unit?”
Watch Su Niantang use her pocket dimension and delicious food to clear her name, raise her children into lovable little darlings, outwit the worst sorts of people, build a career, and win the wholehearted love of her rugged army-officer husband as she makes a brilliant life for herself in the 1960s.
Very warm and gentle, the beauty of long flowing water moistens things silently