Transmigrated to 1980: I Won His Heart with My Banquet Cooking

Entrepreneurship in the Reform Era + Food Power Fantasy + Marry First, Love Later + Mutual Devotion + Face-Slapping Comeback + Career-Driven Heroine + Sweet Military Romance + Culinary Mastery + An Era-Spanning Legend

When she opened her eyes, Su Su, a state-banquet food blogger, had become the laughingstock of a steel mill’s residential compound in 1980: Su Xiaomei, the woman who’d “failed to force a marriage” and been publicly rejected by a cold-faced military officer.

Rumors were flying everywhere. Her family was so poor they could barely get by, and the neighbors were waiting to see the whole family humiliated.

Su Su weighed the rusty spatula in her hand and smiled.

They thought her cooking was too rough for a proper kitchen? She’d use those hands to win over every palate in the 1980s.

Starting as a temporary worker in the steel mill cafeteria, she had picky workers fighting over every bite of braised pork, made the haughty chefs at the state-run restaurant admit defeat, and got military district leaders who’d once looked down on her to request her personally for their reception banquets.

The rumors? Once she took over the entire cafeteria and earned in a month what others made in a year, gossip turned to envy.

The forced marriage? Ren Bai, the reconnaissance battalion’s deputy commander who’d once coldly declared he would never marry her, now showed up in her little kitchen every day right on time. His gaze deep, he said, “Comrade Su Su, I’m entrusting both my stomach... and my heart to you today.”

The winds of reform swept the land. Spatula in hand, Su Su went from a small family kitchen to founding a food empire, with every step in rhythm with the times.

And the man who had rejected her at first became her firmest support, protecting her and lowering every last one of his cold defenses for her alone.

A legend of an era, where food is her spear and her career her shield, forged amid the warmth of everyday life!