[Period Romance + Gourmet + Sweet Everyday Romance + System + Pocket Dimension + Mindless Face-Slapping of the Worst Sort + Building Wealth]
Xia Yichu transmigrates into a book and becomes a bit-part background character in a novel set in the 1970s.
Her parents both die saving her. The neighbors point fingers and call her a jinx. The young girl dies of grief, and someone else takes her place.
Xia Yichu: Heh...
In her previous life, she was a food blogger with tens of millions of followers. For her first meal after transmigrating, she makes scallion-oil noodles, and just as they're ready, a “ding” rings in her mind. A huge golden wok drops from the sky!
[Ding! Kitchen God Space has been bound.]
Cook a dish, earn a reward: secret recipes, seeds, spiritual spring water... Who needs to go hungry in times like these? She's going to make her life better than anyone else's!
Her older brother takes her with him to the army base. Before leaving on a mission, he asks his stoic best friend, Wen Shixu: “Buddy, my sister is your sister. Keep an eye on her and don't let anyone bully her. And especially, help me keep the wolves away.”
Wen Shixu agrees without changing expression.
Though he's as cold as an iceberg, he always happens to appear when she's being picked on. Though he says, “I'm just doing my duty,” he cleans every dish she cooks. Though he sternly declares, “Men and women shouldn't be too familiar,” he turns around and “reasonably arranges” for every man who approaches her to go elsewhere...
And then he becomes the wolf who pursues her most relentlessly.
Xia Yichu: I just want to focus on my career in peace.
Wen Shixu, expressionless: You can focus on your career, but I can focus on...
The heroine came to the family home and was constantly being rumored and framed endlessly. She was a bit of a virgin and not good-looking.