[Farming and Business] [Ancient Romance with a Twist] [Gourmet Food] [Building Wealth] [Everyday Growth] On the day her father died, her legitimate mother threw her and her frail birth mother out, leaving them only a dilapidated courtyard and five taels of silver.
The next day, her fiancé came to break off the engagement, and the whole city laughed at her.
Fifteen-year-old Shen Linglong didn't cry. Instead, she glanced at the battered wooden chest in the corner.
Inside was another world: glutinous rice chicken, soup dumplings, shrimp dumplings, shumai, xiaolongbao, sushi, spring rolls, egg tarts, river snail rice noodles, hot-and-sour noodles, malatang...
Unbelievably cheap, and so delicious you'd lick your fingers.
She took her birth mother and loyal servant with her, established their own household, set up a food stall, dumped the scumbag, and put her older half-sister in her place.
From a humble girl who stoked the stove to the county's culinary genius, while others changed their fortunes by marrying, she turned down every proposal from a rich family...
