The Period Son-in-Law: My Mother-in-Law’s Family Is All Women

[Period setting + rags to riches + live-in son-in-law + beloved by the whole family]

Reborn in 1998, Lu Jun opens his eyes to find himself once again the live-in son-in-law mocked by everyone in the family compound.

His mother-in-law criticizes and torments him at every turn, his sister-in-law never misses a chance to bring up his impoverished background, and even his wife has grown distant because of their hard life, setting her heart on a technician at the factory with better prospects.

In his previous life, he was thrown out of the house with nothing to his name. He set up a roadside stall, and, starving and freezing, died alone in the bitter winter snow.

Reborn, all the grievances he had bottled up for ten years finally fade away. He resolves to stop silently enduring and yielding, and to change his fate with his cooking skills.

With his exceptional cooking, he recreates the restaurants’ signature dishes, perfectly catering to popular tastes;

A tricycle becomes the foundation of his night-market barbecue stall, and customers queue all the way to the street corner;

The fragrant aroma of his secret-recipe braised meat drifts through the whole neighborhood, while even the veteran owner of Wangjiang Pavilion can’t stop praising a bowl of home-style egg fried rice.

As life gets better and better, the mother-in-law who once treated him with cold indifference quietly leaves a light on for him, prejudiced relatives put aside their contempt, and his ex-wife finally sees things clearly and keeps trying to get close to him.

Along the way, his diligence and dependability bring him sincere, friendly partners and benefactors from every walk of life, and his business keeps growing.

Lu Jun stubs out his cigarette and gazes at the four-story restaurant about to open, his eyes resolute:

“This time around, I’ll make my own way through my own abilities. I’ll never let anyone bully me or throw me out on a whim again.”