I Hit the Jackpot After Linking the Chef God App

New chapter announcement: This story will conclude with its paid chapters on December 24 (Saturday).

[Please add my upcoming story, The Pretty Doctor on a 1970s Island, to your favorites. The blurb is below.]

Blurb: Ji Mingqing is a frail young woman who knows nothing about cooking. By chance, she gets bound to a Chef God training app.

The good news: She gains a magical space that can provide her with a constant supply of the finest, freshest ingredients. There's also a handsome young man inside who works diligently and willingly, farming, hunting, and fishing.

The bad news: From then on, she's forced to inherit the family business and study cooking day and night, working hard to restore the Ji family's restaurant to its former glory.

Fortunately, all her hard work pays off.

At the "Taste of the Past" Chinese Traditional Cooking Competition, Ji Mingqing returns in full force under the title of the thirty-eighth-generation heir to the Imperial Kitchen, bringing her superb culinary skills and delicious, naturally grown, unpolluted ingredients from her space. She astonishes the judges and shocks the nation.

Legends of the Imperial Kitchen begin circulating throughout the land.

They say a veteran movie queen's disfigured face, caused by an endocrine disorder, was restored by drinking beauty soup from the Imperial Kitchen. Her looks returned to their peak, making her even more enchanting than an eighteen-year-old girl.

The Imperial Kitchen delivers nourishing medicinal meals every day to a highly respected elderly scientist. The scientist has already gotten out of his wheelchair and is standing again, ready to work for the country for decades to come.

One day, a domineering CEO who believes he can make anything happen says dismissively, "I've been asking you to book a table at the Imperial Kitchen for three days. Have you got one yet?"

The old butler wipes the sweat from his forehead. "Boss Ji says the reservation list is already full for the next three years..."

Gu Xingyue, who considers himself a genius and Heaven's favored son, never dreamed that one day he'd be trapped in another world's space, content to play the supporting role, working like an ox and a horse in the fields, all to train the chosen girl into a System-certified Chef God.

Gu Xingyue: "There's no way I'm farming. Not in this life."

System: "Complete the task of cultivating ten mu of fertile land and earn ten Gourmet Points. Once you have ten thousand Gourmet Points, you can buy one ticket back to the real world."

Gu Xingyue: "Where's the hoe?!"

[Upcoming story, please add to your favorites: The Pretty Doctor on a 1970s Island]

Blurb: Lin Chenxin, a promising young doctor, wakes up inside a 1970s novel about raising children while following a soldier to an island. She's become the cannon-fodder contrast character.

In the original story, the heroine is hardworking, kind, virtuous, and patient. Not only is she the male lead's perfect wife, she also painstakingly raises the three children orphaned by his fallen comrade until they become successful adults. In the end, she wins a happy life everyone envies.

By contrast, Lin Chenxin is spoiled, lazy, and greedy. She wants to compete with the heroine over everything, and her antics eventually earn her everyone's scorn.

After reading the story, Lin Chenxin thinks: Is the seafood not delicious, or are the handsome guys not handsome enough? Why would anyone be so desperate to become somebody's stepmother?

So:

While the heroine works herself to the bone doing laundry and cooking for the whole family, Lin Chenxin relaxes and directs a handsome young officer to help carry water and plant vegetables.

While the heroine's life is thrown into chaos by rebellious, willful children, Lin Chenxin sits peacefully in her rocking chair, drinking tea, reading, and eating snacks she made herself.

While the heroine struggles to stretch the male lead's single salary to support three children, pinching every penny until it squeaks, Lin Chenxin carefully picks out abalone and lobster from the fishermen's boats as they return from sea.

Lin Chenxin thinks she's doing a pretty good job as the contrast character...

Shen Yan is just like his name: fiery and explosive. He was sent to the island for refusing to follow orders, but soon thrives in this vast new world.

Then he meets Lin Chenxin, his natural nemesis. She turns a carefree young man who loves nothing more than being wild and free into a skilled bricklayer, carpenter, farmer, and chef!

Oysters, scallops, and lobster; sea snails, crabs, and golden abalone. Ever since he met her, life on this quiet island has become rich, vivid, and full of flavor.

A little scene: One night, a raging storm batters the island. In its only operating room, a bare-bones facility, Lin Chenxin's heart wavers in the storm as she treats the gravely injured Shen Yan.

Shen Yan takes her trembling hand and looks at her with determination. "Lin Chenxin, I'm putting my life in your hands."

Theme: Promote the traditional food culture of the Chinese people