Period Drama + Modern Sweet Romance + A Woman’s Growth + Love After Marriage
In her previous life, Lin Chuxia was drained dry and worked to death by her awful relatives. She opens her eyes in 1982, on the eve of the day she’s being forced to marry an “ill-fated old man” whose wives all die young.
Without hesitation, she knocks on the door of Shen Siyuan, the expert who was sent down to the countryside next door. “Comrade Shen, marry me. I’ll cook for you for the rest of your life.”
The cold and solitary man thinks it will simply mean setting one more place at the table. He never expects that his young wife’s cooking will cure the headaches he’s suffered for ten years, that a bowl of soup will warm his cold stomach, or that a plate of braised pork will give him the desire to keep living.
With the aid of her medicinal-cuisine System, Lin Chuxia starts out with a food stall outside a state-owned factory, then gradually opens restaurants and starts a food-processing factory. She becomes one of the first people in the 1980s to amass a fortune of ten thousand yuan.
When her awful relatives show up, green with envy, the once-down-and-out expert has already reclaimed his identity and become Chief Engineer Shen, a man whom everyone in the capital’s inner circle treats with great respect.
He pulls her into his arms. “You think you can mess with my wife without asking me, Shen?”
