[Period Setting + Food]
Blurb:
Fan Wan is a corporate wage slave who spends every last bit of money she has on food.
But to buy a suit for her boyfriend after he made it through the interview stage, she wolfed down plain steamed buns for a whole month and gained ten pounds.
Then, on the day Qin Xicheng passed the exam, he wore a crisp suit and broke up with her.
He said, "Just look at yourself. You're old, poorly educated, and underpaid. Your parents are both dead, and you have a disabled younger brother to support. The only thing you can do is cook... These past few days with me have been a blessing for you."
Fan Wan finally saw the light. If she could live her life over, she would study hard, find a high-paying job, and thrive on her own. If a jerk like Qin Xicheng didn't look like her secret crush, she wouldn't even give him a second glance.
After a car accident, Fan Wan was reborn, returning to the 1990s.
Back then, the Fan family was still thriving. Her grandfather's Fan Family Restaurant was famous throughout the city, her parents were a loving couple, her younger brother Fan Jian hadn't been born yet... And she was still the restaurant's spoiled young heiress, rich and doted on by her family, with no interest in studying...
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Two strange things have happened lately at the Fan Family Restaurant.
The first: The young heiress has picked up her books and started doing math worksheets. She's even pestering the old master to have that Jiang boy tutor her.
The second: The young heiress, who has always hated the smell of cooking oil, now spends every day at the restaurant, snatching the head chef's wok spatula to teach people how to cook.
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Everyone says the Fan Family Restaurant is about to go under, and the Fan family is finished. Fan Yuxian must be so desperate that he's making his underage granddaughter revive the restaurant.
They're rolling out unheard-of gimmicks like "Cloud-Nine Hot Pot Service," "Free Meals for Dine-and-Dashers," "Limited-Edition Dishes in Collaboration with Singers," and "Rotating Dining Tables," along with a whole series of bizarre dishes.
Everyone in the industry is laughing themselves silly.
Yet in less than two months, long lines are forming outside the Fan Family Restaurant. No matter how rich or powerful you are, you have to wait your turn, and some people even come to blows over it.
Other restaurants are going bankrupt one after another. Even the century-old Heming Restaurant, losing customers by the day, comes begging Fan Wan for one or two recipes just to stay in business.
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Qin Xicheng has a crush.
He saved an entire year's salary to buy her a gift.
At the company annual party, Qin Xicheng makes a grand declaration of love: "I'm part of management, and I make three hundred thousand a year. If you go out with me, I'll give you expensive gifts like this every holiday."
Just then, General Manager Jiang, whom he'd only seen once from afar, walks over. After looking around at the crowd eager for gossip, he fixes Qin Xicheng with a cold stare. "What, you think three hundred thousand is enough to steal my fiancée?"
That very day, Qin Xicheng packs up and flees the city in the dead of night.
Theme: Love
