Broke, Then Rich Again: The Book's Green-Tea Male Lead Spoils Me Rotten

(A skilled university cook x a sensitive, loyal, green-tea male second lead) [Farming novel + transmigration into a book + super-sweet romance + green tea + cozy, funny daily life + slow-burn + food + slow pace + heroine’s growth] Wang Yanyan woke up to find she had transmigrated into the body of Ying Hexue, an innkeeper, and into a power-struggle novel called The Phoenix Palace: A World in Ruin. Late one night, Ying Hexue was framed for adultery by her future mother-in-law, Madam Yang. While she was unconscious from a drug, this “unexpected” book brought the two of them together. The book’s second male lead, Zhang Huaichu, burst out of its pages, helping her face-slap Madam Yang and kick her fiancé to the curb… But after mismanaging the business and falling victim to her competitor’s schemes, Ying Hexue had no choice but to close the inn and open the Hechu Little Restaurant in Qinghe County. A good-for-nothing university student teams up with a highly intelligent male second lead to grow the restaurant step by step and build a fortune. Though Zhang Huaichu is brilliant and exceptionally talented, his unrequited love in the original novel left him sensitive and fragile. But before he knew it, Ying Hexue had found her way into his heart, helping him overcome his insecurity… Ying Hexue: “Little Octopus, your heart has already been broken once. Can you still believe in love?” Zhang Huaichu: “You said an octopus has three hearts. I’ll give you all three. Listen to everything I feel…” Reader’s guide: [The green-tea male second lead seems like a humble, innocent white lotus on the surface, but he’s intensely possessive and speaks in a cloyingly sweet, manipulative way.] [The heroine isn’t a brainless good-for-nothing. She’ll grow over time, and both leads can cook, so neither is a burden.] [The original novel’s male and female leads will both appear, but there won’t be any clichéd love triangle. The political intrigue will unfold gradually later on; for now, it’s the early stage of building capital.]