After three years of grueling 996 work culture, Lin Xiaoman ends up with a bleeding ulcer, only to be laid off by a major tech company.
With nowhere else to turn, she returns to her old neighborhood and inherits the little vegetable shop her grandmother ran for thirty years. The moment her fingers touch the old steelyard, she activates the [Food Traceability and Goodwill Reward System]!
With a touch, she can see a food item's entire supply chain at a glance: excessive pesticide residues? Formaldehyde used for preservation? Short weight? No shady trick escapes her!
While others compete to sell cheap, inferior produce, she sticks to her principles and sells only vegetables that are 100% safe.
She exposes unscrupulous wholesalers and face-slaps competitors who try to sabotage her. In food safety inspections across the entire district, hers is the only shop to pass every category!
From a little vegetable shop at the end of an alley that no one noticed, to a food safety role model with lines stretching across the city;
From a down-and-out office worker who got laid off, to a rural revitalization pioneer helping thousands of farming households increase their income;
From a socially anxious nobody, to the darling of the whole community, adored by her neighbors, farmers, mothers, and the official media.
Others open vegetable shops to make quick money. She opens hers to uphold the integrity her grandmother stood by all her life and protect the safety of the food on countless ordinary people's tables.
And by her side is Lu Ze, a gentle agricultural science expert. They stand shoulder to shoulder, each devoted to the other: You protect the people's tables, I'll protect the warmth of everyday life, and you.
✅ Reading guide:
1. Satisfying from start to finish, with fast, decisive face-slapping and no frustrating misery for the heroine.
2. Full of everyday warmth and healing, not depressing. It fights against the rat race without choosing to lie flat.
3. Packed with practical food safety tips, so you'll know how to avoid pitfalls when buying groceries.
4. A devoted one-on-one romance with both leads' pasts clear of complications: no love rivals, no misunderstandings, and sweetness without being cloying.
