[Best friends transported together + healing slice of life + delicious food + funny, sweet romance]
My name is Ruan Yuan. Yuan means round and complete, but unfortunately… it first showed up on my face.
My two great loves in life are eating and looking at handsome men.
Luckily, the two He brothers next door are so easy on the eyes that I can eat two extra bowls of Aunt Zhao’s zhajiangmian just by looking at them. Life was wonderful until my own parents decided I was too chubby and kicked me off to Suzhou to stay with my best friend and “lose weight.”
While eating our way along Pingjiang Road with my cool, reserved best friend, a traditional Chinese medicine doctor, we accidentally fell into the water. When I opened my eyes again, I’d time-traveled!
The good news: I’d become the daughter of the Suzhou county magistrate, with a comfortable home and no shortage of food or clothes.
A glowing bun suddenly bounced out and said, “Host! This System can help you get home! The condition is that you use food to dominate Bianjing’s Handsome Men Rankings!”
Oh? So I just have to eat in a new place and look at handsome men while I’m at it? Easy.
From bubble wontons and iced cola at a Suzhou street stall to the “Meet You Pavilion” in Bianjing, my barbecue wins over a prince from the Western Regions, my yangchun noodles cure the empress’s loss of appetite, the zither master is willing to perform nightly for a bowl of fermented-rice dumplings, and the dark-skinned general and his eight-pack-strong entourage show up every day… As for those two mysterious young masters who are always getting jealous over me, quit bickering. Let me finish eating before I think about it.
Then, at her coming-of-age ceremony, the two brothers kiss her cheeks at the same time, and the System’s voice rings out: “Mission complete! The way home is now open!”
Five years later, Ruan Yuan is still caught up in a dilemma. Jiang Zhi’s wedding bouquet lands in her arms, and she gets a kiss on each cheek. A Polaroid camera clicks, capturing all three of their smiles.
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