1995. Yi Ci is eighteen.
She failed the college entrance exams. Her father lost his job at a state-run restaurant, then broke his leg. Two years ago, her mother came down with a serious illness and has needed medicine with every meal ever since.
Seeing the state of her family, her childhood sweetheart ran as fast as he could. Marrying her would be like taking on a whole family of dead weight.
The relatives who used to curry favor with her family showed their true colors too. "Your dad's iron rice bowl is gone, and your family has only one worthless girl. Your family will never get back on its feet now."
Yi Ci clenched her teeth and fists. As long as she didn't fall, her family wouldn't fall either.
Since childhood, Yi Ci had followed her father, Old Yi, and learned his craft. She became an excellent cook.
With a tricycle and a folding table, she set up a little stall selling egg fried rice.
A piping-hot plate of egg fried rice, with every grain perfectly distinct, became the workers' favorite after-work treat.
Just as Yi Ci's business was booming, she discovered a door had suddenly appeared in the kitchen where she prepared her ingredients.
She stepped through that "door" and arrived in
[The Survival World]
Survival expert: I have tens of millions' worth of supplies at my disposal, but what I miss most is the cheap fried rice sold at the night market behind my school.
Yi Ci, who suddenly appeared in another world carrying a customer's fried rice: ...
[One serving of fried rice in exchange for a magical giant bone]
*Note: After being carefully cooked and simmered, the magical giant bone can miraculously repair bone marrow.
Yi Ci: That's wonderful! Dad's leg can be healed!
Later, Yi Ci transmigrated from her kitchen to
[The Elf World]
Little elf: Can I trade you some Sang Sang leaves for your pumpkin mansion?
*Note: Sang Sang leaves are a special plant eaten by the elves. They have a calming effect on the mind and nourish the spirit.
[The Magic World]
Fairy of Magic: Can I trade my delicious magic soup for your bolete mushroom soup?
*Note: Delicious magic soup is a magical soup made by a mage. Drinking it can randomly produce the magical effect of [Taking Off on the Spot] or [Dazzling the Eyes].
Yi Ci's kitchen connected to various other worlds.
By trading with people from other worlds, she could obtain rare treasures that didn't exist in her own. The magical giant bone healed her father's leg, and the clouds that had hung over their family finally began to part.
The relatives who had once mocked her family for having nothing but a useless girl watched Yi Ci open more and more branches, green with envy. That worthless girl can make that much money?
The people who had once sucked up to the powerful and trampled on the weak, convinced that Yi Ci's family would never rise again, came begging to curry favor.
Her ex-boyfriend, who had once dumped her like unwanted baggage, came back to ask her to get back together.
Yi Ci: I've already got a fiance coming to propose, a boyfriend with a government job assigned by the state. He's six foot two, ready to fight and head to the front lines when needed, and just as happy to make the bed and warm the blankets.