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[New novel currently updating: A Little Tavern at the Border. Blurb at the very end. Please add it to your favorites QAQ]
------ This Novel's Blurb ------
After getting drunk and waking up, Shen Zhiyi, the owner of C City's most popular private restaurant, discovered that she'd transmigrated into the body of a farm girl.
Her parents had just died, she was dirt poor, and she was buried in debt.
Shen Zhiyi: ...
Wasn't this start way too miserable?! Luckily, she still had her cooking skills. Otherwise, she might have starved to death.
A new street vendor had recently appeared by the Qinhuai River. The young woman had bright eyes and lovely features, and the food she sold was so novel and delicious that people couldn't get enough of it and couldn't stop thinking about it.
Spicy, tender, and chewy braised meats, sweet and refreshing iced jelly, savory and crispy jianbing guozi...
She introduced new dishes every so often, and before long, they became all the rage in Bianjing.
Watching her little stash grow plumper and plumper, Shen Zhiyi nodded with satisfaction. Sure enough, no matter the era, foodies were the easiest people to make money from.
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No one knew that Xie Lin, the cold and ruthless Minister of the Court of Judicial Review, was a huge foodie.
He'd heard that a beautiful shopkeeper had recently arrived by the Qinhuai River, and that her food was so delicious you could practically taste it in your bones.
Xie Lin was rather dismissive. What kind of delicacies had he not tasted in Bianjing? Surely people were exaggerating because of her looks. What a bunch of ordinary folk.
Later, looking at the smiling woman before him, Xie Lin mentally slapped himself over and over: It's so good!
A few things to know before reading:
1. This is a food and farming novel, set in an alternate world with lots of original details. Please don't nitpick!
2. The dishes in the novel come from Suiyuan Shidan, Renjian Shihua, and the internet.
------ Coming Soon: A Little Tavern at the Border ------
After Ruan Yan woke from a faint, she discovered that she'd transmigrated into the body of a down-and-out official's daughter.
For some reason, the food management game she'd been playing before she fainted had come along with her.
[Ding! Congratulations, player. You have bound the Head Shopkeeper System. Complete missions to receive surprise rewards. Do your best to complete them!]
To overcome her struggle for survival and complete the System's missions, Ruan Yan returned to her old line of work and opened a little tavern.
A new little tavern had opened in Ling'an County. Its young proprietress was a great beauty, and the daughter of the former county magistrate.
Grateful for the magistrate's kindness and pitying her circumstances, the people of Ling'an flocked to the tavern. But after one visit, they found themselves dazzled by all the delicious food there:
Meat zha, golden chicken, pan-fried pork ribs,
raw crab, steamed vegetarian duck, Dongpo tofu.
Before eating, the people of Ling'an said: We came because we're grateful for the magistrate's kindness.
After eating, the people of Ling'an said: What?! The food is limited? I want a billion more servings!!! (Banging bowl.jpg)
General Xiao Heng was the God of War of Donghua in the eyes of the world, and the cold-faced King of Hell, ruthless and cruel, to princes, nobles, and ministers.
Xiao Heng had assumed that the young lady of the Ruan family was frail, so he'd offered her a little help out of courtesy.
He hadn't expected her cooking to amaze him so much. After trying it once, he couldn't stop thinking about it.
And whenever he visited the tavern, the young lady wasn't afraid of him at all. She always greeted him with a gentle smile, served him carefully simmered hot soup, and patiently advised him on his diet.
Xiao Heng, ruthless, cruel, and unsociable: Could this young lady be in love with me?
The tavern's business kept booming, and the System's experience points kept piling up. Ruan Yan was delighted.
But lately, General Xiao, her generous and undemanding patron, who'd helped her so much, had been looking at her in a rather strange way...
One day, Ruan Yan opened the tavern's doors and stared dumbfounded at a seemingly endless row of betrothal gift chests.
Then she heard her patron ask:
"A Yan, would all my worldly possessions be enough to have you cook for me every day?"
Ruan Yan, who was only after his money: I was just after your money. I didn't think you'd be after my body! QAQ
#I thought you were just my patron, but you want to marry me#
Theme: Strive for the life you want
