Qiu Niang had been a fool for as long as she could remember.
When she was fifteen, her foster parents dressed her up as a normal girl and sold her to the marquis's estate as a maid.
Luckily, the Yun family was kind, and the young heir was a good person. Seeing how pitiful she was, he kept her in the estate as a maid and study companion by his side.
Everyone said she was lucky despite being a fool. The heir liked her and would eventually give her a proper status, making her a true mistress of the Yun family.
She waited and waited, but before Young Master Yun could take her as a concubine, the Yun family was confiscated.
One of the people confiscating the estate shoved Qiu Niang, and the impact brought back all her memories.
It turned out that she had once owned a noodle shop in a province famous for its noodles in the twenty-first century. After she ended up in ancient times, she lost her memory...
As they lay dying, the Yun couple told their son, Yun Shuanghan, to go with her to a clean place and live as ordinary people.
So Qiu Niang left with him and set up a noodle stall.
Clear-broth noodles, wonton noodles, chili oil noodles, minced-meat noodles, belt-shaped noodles...
Qiu Niang was skillful, able to make all kinds of noodles with ease. The money she earned kept the two of them fed.
When times were hardest, she pulled Yun Shuanghan to his feet and pressed the money she'd earned from selling noodles into his hands. "Here, tuition money."
Yun Shuanghan tossed the money back to Qiu Niang. "You're a respectable woman. You have better prospects. Why get entangled with a convicted criminal's son like me?"
Qiu Niang leaned against his side. "Because everyone says I'm a fool."
The noodle stall did better and better, growing into a large restaurant and eventually a chain.
When the shop was busy, Yun Shuanghan was always there helping Qiu Niang.
As he came by more and more often, someone said to Qiu Niang, "With hands as skilled as yours, why keep looking after that useless pretty boy? You'd be better off with me."
Qiu Niang did not respond. She only looked tenderly at Yun Shuanghan. "Aren't you busy with official duties today?"
Yun Shuanghan kneaded the dough and answered word by word, "I can't neglect my main job."
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