Bai Luo, founder of a fast-food chain, transmigrates into the body of a pitiful girl whose parents are dead, whose family fortune has been stolen, whose engagement has been broken off, and who was nearly sold to a brothel.
She refuses to let people bully her. After setting fire to the restaurant that now belongs to her uncle, she uses her virtual kitchen System to make a name for herself in ancient times.
She sets up a little stall selling grilled cold noodles and hand-grabbed pancakes. The line stretches all the way to the city gates, inspiring countless food stalls in the capital to imitate her.
She opens a breakfast shop serving morning tea. A scholar who had failed the exams for years eats her congee and passes the highest-level imperial examination. A great Confucian scholar who had planned to retire eats her crystal shrimp dumplings and decides to stay in the capital. Countless nobles and high officials try to get on her good side so they can reserve a table.
She opens a late-night street food stall selling spicy hot pot, ice-cold cola, and burgers. Her customers include newly appointed top scholars and noble families with generations of distinguished service. Some even spot a prince and the emperor himself at her stall.
At first, Bai Luo only wanted to publish her recipes to stabilize the prices in the System's shop. Who could have guessed that, before she knew it, she would stimulate the street-stall economy of the Great Liang Kingdom, raise its per capita GDP, and promote trade between Great Liang and foreign countries?
The emperor personally inscribes a plaque for her newly opened restaurant chain, rewarding her for her contribution to Great Liang's economy. Just as Bai Luo hangs it up, the dashing Prince Duan steps through the door.
“Shopkeeper, I hear your new place has opened. Would you happen to need a bookkeeper like me?”
Bai Luo replies coolly, “No, thanks. I already found one.”
Prince Duan says, “In that case, I suppose I'll have to humble myself and become your kept man, my dear.”
[Reading Guide]
1. The female lead focuses on her career early on. The male lead is mostly a supporting player.
2. An alternate-world slice-of-life food story.
3. Best enjoyed late at night~
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Blurb:
In every melodramatic xianxia story, there is a vicious supporting female character. She is a heaven-blessed beauty who opposes the heroine at every turn. She steals the immortal treasures the heroine wants, competes for the man the heroine loves, and tramples on the heroine's dignity.
By some cruel twist of fate, Mu Sang Sang transmigrates into the body of this doomed supporting character.
To survive, she has no choice but to break character!
She returns the immortal medicine the heroine found for the hero, creates opportunities for the two to reconcile, and stands up for the heroine to defend her reputation.
But the story still races straight toward the original plot, and no matter how hard she tries, she can't pull it back.
Then it finally dawns on her.
She should just be a vicious cannon-fodder character!
So when the villain kidnaps her and the heroine and forces the hero to choose, she doesn't hesitate for a second. She clings to the villain's leg.
They say the villain is half demon and half god, and even the Heavenly Dao gives him a wide berth.
They say he has no interest in women, and once wiped out his fiancée's entire clan over a single remark.
But there are also rumors that he once told a bedtime story to a girl in the ghost-ridden underworld, and once fought his way alone into the enemy's stronghold while surrounded by foes to bring her the jade hairpin she liked.
Yet this girl would do nothing but hit and scold him, and when he was left on the verge of death after being surrounded, she threw herself into the arms of his enemy.
When the world deceives you, humiliates you, and harms you, what will you do?
Yu Feiwan: Then I'll sew the world's mouths shut, break its arms, tear out its heart, and cast its souls into the endless hell, where they will never be reborn.
And what if that person is Mu Sang Sang?
Yu Feiwan: I would gladly accept it.
Theme: Build a good life with your own hard work, and help others whenever you can.
The male protagonist wants someone to disclose the recipe for his vomit. What is the difference between this and going out on the street to rob someone?
Even if you don't have a good IQ, you are still proud and complacent
Damn it, what kind of Jiannan is threatening the heroine with jail time to hand over the recipe?
Such a male protagonist cannot be
I'm a little speechless when I see this. There's something wrong with the male protagonist.
The male protagonist wants the female protagonist to reveal the food recipe for nothing. He must be sick and too arrogant.
Lactose intolerant? Can't I drink milk?
The male protagonist is sick and you are the only one doing it for the world. Why should the female protagonist give her own abilities to others in vain?
It is good to have great ambitions, and it is not bad to not have them. If you are poor, you can only benefit yourself, if you are successful, you can help the world.
To be honest, the last few chapters of this book feel disconnected from the previous chapters... The food competition at the back is too modern...