My Cafeteria's Food Is the Best in the World

[Blurb]

Xie Ci returns from studying abroad and suddenly realizes that the food in her alma mater's cafeteria has become awful.

The sweet-and-sour pork ribs, chopped-chili fish head, green pepper stir-fried with pork, and shredded pork in Beijing sauce from back then have become today's green beans and fried dough sticks, spicy strips stir-fried with pork, and oranges braised with mooncakes...

The little-pot rice noodles, beef pot stickers, meat-topped rice, noodles with meat sauce, pan-fried buns, and soup dumplings from breakfast have become today's leftover-meat dumplings, sweetened soy milk, rice-free gruel, and plain noodles in clear broth...

Even quick dishes like malatang, hot-and-sour noodles, and grilled cold noodles taste terrible. Xie Ci falls into deep contemplation.

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A University's cafeteria contractor: The cafeteria has to make money! There's no other way to cook these dishes.

Students from A University's various departments: The school cafeteria doesn't treat students like people. Not even a ghost would eat there!

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The first day Xie Ci takes over the cafeteria:

Students from A University's various departments: One Xie Ci can't change the fact that the school cafeteria serves dark cuisine.

The first month after Xie Ci takes over the cafeteria:

Students from A University's various departments: Xie Ci is our second mother! The sour soup beef, crispy pork belly, twice-cooked eggplant, and charcoal-grilled potatoes are so delicious!

The third month after Xie Ci takes over the cafeteria:

A popular thread on an online forum for students at other universities:

Post 1: Why does A University's cafeteria serve hot pot, rice noodles, soy milk, fried dough sticks, pancakes, stir-fries, and meat soup nonstop from morning to night? They even have barbecue and desserts at midnight!

Post 228: With all that food, aren't the students at A University going to turn into pigs?

Post 600: If this is what it's like to be a pig, let me be that pig!

My completed no-romance novels with similar female leads, The Imperial Kitchen Goes Viral in the Entertainment Industry and The Fields I Farm Are Good for Your Health, are also available in my author page. Feel free to check them out. Below are blurbs for my upcoming books, Culinary Splendors of Bianjing and The Letter of Divorce, My Lord (Quick Transmigration)~

Upcoming Book 1: Culinary Splendors of Bianjing

Lin Yufeng opens her eyes and finds herself in Bianjing, in the body of an orphan named Lin Erniang, who shares her name. Almost all her parents and relatives perished in a plague or were slaughtered when bandits came down from the mountains. Her only brother also fell victim to a flash flood while taking her to the capital to seek help from distant relatives.

Lin Yufeng goes alone to the capital to meet her relatives, only to be turned away at the door.

With no relatives to rely on and not a penny to her name, she uses her skillful hands and talent for cooking to make a colorful life for herself in the capital.

All nations come to pay tribute, and people from every corner of the world gather. She leisurely enjoys the prosperous city of Bianjing.

She brews tea and makes friends, cooks meat with wine, and chats about the myriad charms of ancient cuisine.

(A comforting, food-focused farming story about someone relaxing in Bianjing, cooking and eating.)

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Upcoming Book 2: The Letter of Divorce, My Lord (Quick Transmigration)

The goddess Yushuang is assigned a task by the Heavenly Dao: descend to the mortal realm and help women whose marriages have made them unhappy overcome their trials.

Her mission: untangle the conflicts in these women's relationships, ease the knots in their hearts, mend the relationships between husbands and wives, and restore happy families in the mortal world.

But as Yushuang descends to the mortal realm and carefully examines the women's past lives and futures, she is surprised to discover that every woman caught in an ordeal of love comes from a wealthy family, is breathtakingly beautiful, noble in status, widely read, virtuous, and talented... and has done nothing wrong.

The ones responsible for trapping them in unhappy marriages are men of the mortal realm who are ill-tempered, insincere, debauched, insecure, twisted, arrogant, and prone to violence...

Seeing the state of these marriages, Yushuang said just two words to the divine bird sent to supervise her: "They should divorce."

The divine bird relayed the Heavenly Dao's words: "But the Heavenly Dao wishes for harmony and happiness in every household in the world, with no one separated."

Yushuang didn't even spare the divine bird a glance. Looking past it into the endless void, she said, "Who is the Heavenly Dao? Does being the Heavenly Dao give it the right to use mortal women's happiness to amuse itself and indulge its desires? If it wants me to do something, it can speak to me in person."

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Xie Yun, Xi Qing, Qi Wei, Su Yu... After suffering for so long because of love, they couldn't understand how they, as a princess of the empire, a holy maiden of the Wu clan, an imperial general, and the legitimate daughter of a great clan, could have ended up in such dire straits in their marriages.

Then, one summer, early autumn, winter, and late spring, a goddess descended from the heavens and came to their sides. She cleared away the dust before their eyes, drove the demons from their hearts, dispelled their delusions, and helped them see the evil of the men they had married.

With the gentlest yet most forceful touch, she rescued them from the mud at the bottom of the pit. They held fast to the words she had urged them to remember for the rest of their lives: "A talented woman deserves a kingdom of her own. Cut off those who are less than human, and do so without hesitation."

(A story about women coming to their senses and never looking back. The male leads chase after their wives but fail to win them back; from the heroines' perspective, they punish villains and take down scumbags. The heroines find love with other people.)

Theme: What matters is putting your heart into it.