A Cozy Little Restaurant

Coming soon: Lovers in Parallel Worlds

While her classmates were still fighting for more job offers and grinding through interview after interview, twenty-three-year-old Yuan Qian had just graduated from college and already bought a home in the capital with her own money, putting her ahead of her peers.

But her life was as fleeting as her name suggested.

She had no bond with her parents or relatives, and had always been all alone.

When she was young, Yuan Qian had thought fate unfair. Why was Heaven so stingy with her, when everyone else seemed to get so easily what she longed for?

But later, after seeing so many partings and reunions and hearing so many arguments and complaints, she began to enjoy living on her own.

She thought her life would go just as she planned: calm and ordinary, alone until old age. But an accident let her glimpse another world, where she met the person fate had chosen for her.

Jiang Qi, an internationally renowned soccer player.

At nineteen, he competed in the World Cup and brought home his country's first championship trophy alongside his teammates.

At twenty-three, as a core player on the national team, he scored the winning goal in the final fifteen minutes of the championship match, securing another title. The media called him "a hero of the nation."

In just four years, he went from an unknown player to a household name around the world, earning countless honors. Flowers, applause, and glory piled up around him, but also wrapped around him like layers of shackles, leaving him breathless even as he enjoyed them.

But he didn't want to, and couldn't, avoid the pursuit of his goals. He never imagined that one day, a small figure would stand before him without hesitation, trying to shield him from the storm.

In short: A deeply pessimistic woman who doesn't believe in love X a man who loves passionately yet holds himself back

Those whose fate is fleeting are often the ones who love most deeply.

[Content Warning] The female lead isn't very proactive or a successful person, and she isn't a strong woman. Don't be misled by the first paragraph of the blurb.

[Blurb]

Across from Yangcheng No. 1 High School is a small home-style restaurant that has been open for twenty years.

With few people nearby and most students living at school, the restaurant has never done very well.

One day, the students suddenly discovered that it had closed.

When it reopened, they noticed the old woman who used to run it was gone, replaced by a pretty young woman they rarely saw around. From then on, the restaurant's food became a legendary treat that the boarding students longed for but could never get.

The year Yuan Qiao graduated, the grandmother who had raised her since childhood died in an accident.

For a number of reasons, Yuan Qiao decided to keep running the little restaurant her grandmother had left behind.

She had only planned to earn enough to cover utilities and food, but in a country full of food lovers, the restaurant unexpectedly became a huge hit.

A sweet story about growing together and keeping each other company

[Hardworking restaurant owner who shares the local food culture] X [Kind and gentle, handsome high school teacher]

[Content Warnings]

Slow-paced, a gentle, gradual story. You could call it a slice-of-life farming novel.

The author's writing isn't very good, so please bear with me.

I'm open to criticism and suggestions and want to improve. Leave a comment if you'd like, and I'll reply when I have time.

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Also coming soon: Divorced, I Became a Top Actress [Showbiz]

Blurb: After her first-line actor husband cheated on her, Meng Xi, a housewife for five years, decisively filed for divorce, only to nearly leave with nothing.

Overnight, Meng Xi went from being the woman everyone envied to the most pitiful celebrity wife in the eyes of netizens.

But three months later, netizens spotted the long-vanished Meng Xi at the launch event for an S+++ project on a film and television platform.

From then on, the entertainment industry gained a new actress, the trending topics gained a regular, and the major awards ceremonies gained a new guest.

Wen Sheng thought his wife had asked for a divorce in a fit of anger and would come back to him once she saw how cruel the world was. He thought their two children would come back to him, too.

But after leaving him, Meng Xi's life became dazzling, and the children grew more and more distant from him.

[Awards Ceremony]

Wen Sheng watched his ex-wife, seated in the front row, lift her skirt and walk onto the stage to give her acceptance speech, while he could only sit in the back and watch her embrace another man.

Meng Xi: "Thank you... Thank you... Thank you... And thank you to my ex-husband. Because of him, I finally broke free from the shackles engraved in my heart and found the courage to try my hand at the career I love again..."

The author's terrible at writing blurbs, so please bear with me. [Please add it to your favorites]

Theme: Even when life is full of setbacks, live happily. I want to introduce the distinctive cuisine of my hometown.