Back to 1983: The Golden Years of a Master Chef

[Period Setting] [Reborn] [Food and Business] [Tough Hero Devoted to His Wife] [Healing Child-Rearing] [Satisfying Family Breakup]

In his previous life, He Changfeng spent half his life blindly obeying his family, draining his savings to pay the bride price for his useless younger brother and subsidize his mother.

His three-and-a-half-year-old daughter Jiajia died after a high fever went untreated because they couldn't afford care. His wife, Jiang Yun, sold her blood in despair, fell ill, and died young.

He later devoted himself to mastering the culinary arts, eventually becoming a nationally renowned top-tier Sichuan chef, but in his old age, he was consumed by regret and died with a lifetime of remorse.

When he opens his eyes, He Changfeng finds himself back in the late autumn of 1983!

In the hospital room, his wife is rolling up her sleeves, about to sell her blood for an injection to bring down their daughter's fever. At the old family home, his biased mother is counting the money he's sweated and bled for alongside his parasitic younger brother.

This time, he will never again be a workhorse for others to exploit!

He takes back the money needed to save his daughter, slaps his wicked brother hard, exposes his family's ugly true colors, and writes up a family separation agreement on the spot, cutting all ties for good!

From the start, he has just three yuan and seventy cents in his pocket, a cracked iron wok, and nobody wants the cow offal he has on hand.

With the superb cooking skills and keen instinct for ingredients he's gained over two lifetimes, he starts out selling bowls of fragrant Qiaojiao beef on Dongmen Bridge Street!

Spicy rabbit, sliced beef and tripe in chili sauce, poached fish, boiled cabbage fit for a state banquet...

From a street stall to a wildly popular little restaurant, then to a province-wide food and beverage giant and food manufacturing empire!

Cold and firm with outsiders, and scrupulous about every account; at home, he gives his wife and daughter all his tenderness and respect.

This time, he'll lead his wife and daughter to stand proudly at the forefront of the age and build a life that's vibrant and prosperous!