From Rags to Riches: Winning with Food and Marrying My Childhood Sweetheart in Troubled Times

A top mercenary transmigrates into the body of an impoverished scholar in Great Qian. His family is ruined, he has nothing to his name, and surviving in this chaotic age is a struggle at every turn. Only Wu Yue, the neighbor's daughter who works as a butcher, stays faithfully by his side, undeterred by his poverty. His future father-in-law makes things difficult, demanding ten taels of betrothal gifts by a deadline to drive him away! Jiang Chun puts his modern culinary skills to work, makes century eggs, and masters the tricks of commerce. He teams up with the young master of a restaurant to build a business, face-slaps his snobbish neighbors, and protects his devoted, adorable wife. He rises step by step amid the chaos, eventually reaching the pinnacle of Great Qian!