The Young Madam of Gansu: One Bowl of Beef Noodles Wins Over a Prestigious Family

After a breakup, Gansu girl Lin Suihe is crouching by the shore in Southeast Asia with half a bag of Lanzhou lily bulbs when, just after blocking her money-loving scumbag ex, she lands a million-yuan job: pretend to be the girlfriend of Gu Yancheng, heir to the Gu family, for three months and help him escape a business marriage.

She slaps her thigh and agrees: “You got it! I may not know much, but I’m great at pulling Lanzhou beef noodles and stewing hand-grabbed lamb!”

Who knew the young master Gu would be a melancholic, sickly man crushed under his family’s expectations, someone who doesn’t even know how to smile?

At her first meeting with his family, his snobbish cousin makes a cutting remark: “A girl from the Northwest thinks she’s good enough to marry into the Gu family?”

Lin Suihe sets the freshly brewed Sanpaotai tea on the table. “Auntie, Yancheng gets to decide whether I’m good enough! You, on the other hand, are more prickly than the sea buckthorn on the hill behind my home!”

As silence falls over the room, Gu Yancheng suddenly steps in front of her protectively. For the first time, there is a light in his eyes. “I think she is.”

Later, at a banquet, she sings Northwest folk songs and stuns the room. The hand-grabbed lamb she stews in the kitchen smells heavenly for miles, and even the sharp-tongued old madam is charmed into calling her “child.”

Gu Yancheng recovers from his depression, loses his domineering CEO aura, and turns into a clingy puppy: “Suihe, don’t leave me.”

Lin Suihe raises an eyebrow. “You still haven’t paid me that million!”

Gu Yancheng presses a black card into her hand. “You already have me. What does money matter?”