Starting from Scratch with Good Food

→This is a pre-release announcement. The blurb for this novel is at the very bottom.

---Pre-release 1: The Young Master Is Delicate in His Bedchamber------

#Scheming, calculating beauty VS cool, noble, sickly young master#

Marriage first, love later, one-on-one, sweet romance, happy ending

Liangzhou has two wealthy families: the Jin Songs and the Silver Lus.

The two families joined in marriage, one for business and the other for love.

The Song family's young lady is peerlessly beautiful, delicate, and kind.

The Lu family's young master is handsome and dazzling, gentle and mild-mannered.

Everyone said their marriage would surely become a charming tale.

But then the Lu family's business faltered and their fortunes declined, and the Song family took the opportunity to break off the engagement.

*

Her father, greedy and faithless, ruined Song Hua's betrothal made before she was born.

Hearing that her fiance was clever, Song Hua intended to help him in secret and discuss marriage again once he had rebuilt his family fortune.

But her fiance was too proud, and he left without a word, vanishing without a trace.

Later, her mercenary father planned to marry her off to a notorious wastrel in town.

On the wedding day, the newly appointed prefect arrived with a marriage contract and, citing the broken engagement, had both her father and the wastrel thrown into prison.

Only then did Song Hua learn that the prefect was the young master of the Lu family, and that he had returned to settle the score for the way they had kicked him when he was down.

To save them, she personally went to plead with him.

Unexpectedly, he stared at her for a long while, then said with a faint smile, "I have always been a fair official. If you owe something, you should repay it."

Song Hua thought for a moment, then suddenly understood.

"Young Master, then let's get married."

*

Once the darling of heaven, Lu Chen had seen his family fortunes decline, lost both his parents, and watched even his engagement fall apart. Frail and ill, he had long since lost hope.

He thought, let her break it off. Given his circumstances, he couldn't bear to drag the young lady into hardship.

Lu Chen personally brought the marriage contract to her home, intending to end things once and for all.

Unexpectedly, he overheard his future father-in-law speaking with someone.

So the Song family wanted to dominate the business world.

So the Song family was responsible for the predicament he was in.

Lu Chen clenched his teeth and glared at the marriage contract in his hand before resolutely leaving Liangzhou.

He went to the capital, took the imperial examinations, and eventually became a prefect. Then he returned to his old home.

Heard that his fiancee was going to marry someone else?

"Hmph. As if I'd let you have your way."

So he had his men arrest the father-in-law and his son-in-law and throw them in prison.

When his fiancee came to plead for them, he intended to make things difficult for her and deliberately said, "I have always been a fair official. If you owe something, you should repay it."

They owed the Lu family justice, and they should repay that too.

But after thinking it over, the young lady suddenly said, "Then let's get married."

Lu Chen: ?

In the years that followed, people out boating would sometimes come across the prefect and his wife, playing in perfect harmony and deeply in love.

The people of Liangzhou were moved: Three years later, the charming tale had come true after all!

[Little Scene]

Lu Chen had just learned that his wife had once used their engagement to extort a share of the family fortune from her mercenary father.

That night, in a blue gauze canopy bed, Lu Chen suddenly stopped, gazing at his wife in his arms, her limpid eyes shimmering and her delicate beauty utterly captivating. His gaze darkened. He held back and asked softly, "Wife, you secretly put away a house and fields hundreds of miles outside Liangzhou. Were you planning to divorce me?"

Song Hua, who really had been considering it, was secretly startled, but kept her face composed. She clung to his neck, sobbing and looking utterly wronged.

"Back then, I thought you would come back for revenge and kick me out sooner or later, so I kept a way out."

The moment his wife cried, Lu Chen was at a loss. He knew she was telling him a convenient lie, but still bent down to kiss away the tears at the corners of her eyes and gently comforted her.

"I won't kick you out."

"And I'll never divorce you."

Song Hua: The engagement I thought was dead has suddenly come back to haunt me.

Lu Chen: I accidentally turned "torture" into "pampering."

---Pre-release 2: My Husband Pretends to Be Proper-----

★Sincere, honest young wife VS fake-proper wolf of a husband★

Her husband was the top scholar of that year's imperial examinations, refined and handsome as jade. But after two years of marriage, they still treated each other with formal respect. Even their intimacy was restrained and lackluster, once every half month.

Su Qingshu had thought that was fine. How many married couples in the world could stay passionately in love? Her husband was considerate and kept no concubines, and she wanted for nothing. That was enough.

Until one day, Su Qingshu had a dream.

In the dream, her husband lost his refinement and clung to her day after day, showering her with sweet words. He was also incredibly enthusiastic in bed, with endless tricks...

When the bed nearly broke from their exertions, she woke up in fright, her little face flushed as she peeked at the person beside her. He still looked as refined and noble as ever.

Su Qingshu couldn't help feeling disappointed.

She had the same dream for three months. She tried to please him and tempt him, hoping her husband would be as affectionate with her as he was in the dream. But every time, he only stared at her for a long while without reacting.

At last, Su Qingshu gave up.

Her husband had no interest, and she kept having these lewd dreams. If this went on, she feared she would lose her mind.

So she gritted her teeth and wrote a divorce agreement herself.

*

The young lady was the daughter of the Imperial College's director, dignified and noble, with breathtaking beauty.

During their two years of marriage, Chu Yu had been careful at every turn, afraid that a clumsy gesture might displease his wife. Even when they were intimate, he held himself back, only secretly indulging his desires afterward.

But one day, his wife began stealing glances at him with a flushed face. She acted boldly and always left him restless.

But he still remembered to restrain himself...

He thought he had done well, but then his wife handed him a divorce agreement.

His hand, hidden in his sleeve, nearly crushed his own bones. His voice trembled as he asked why.

The young lady lowered her head, biting her lip as she timidly said, "It's not your fault, it's mine. Lately, I've been obsessed with lewd dreams and fantasizing about giving in to my desires with you. I'm too ashamed... I must be sick."

Chu Yu froze. After a long while, he came to his senses. He studied the beauty before him, a storm of desire rising in his eyes.

He tore up the divorce agreement, picked up his wife, and strode toward the soft couch behind the screen.

"I fantasize about the same thing every day."

Reading guide:

1. The young wife falls in love after marriage; her wolf of a husband has been plotting for a long time.

2. A spoiler: the young wife's dreams are the wolf husband's fantasies.

--------Blurb for this novel-----------

She opened her eyes and found herself transmigrated into a poor farmer's daughter with no parents and nothing to eat, plus an extra: a foolish husband who couldn't feed himself.

Mo Qingqing wanted to put seven words on the public screen: Unlucky people should be careful when transmigrating!

But as the sole heir to the Mo family's little restaurant, what was there to fear about a little hardship?

She and her foolish husband would build their fortune from scratch with delicious food.

Roast duck, stir-fried clams, and assorted hot pot with osmanthus-scented shark fins.

Sautéed fish slices, jar-braised meat, three-delicacy tofu skin, and almond curd.

From a small county town to the capital; from a little food stall by the river to the famous Mo family's restaurant in the capital. Step by step, she expanded the business, made a fortune, and bought a grand mansion.

Mo Qingqing leaned back contentedly. "I've had a full life!"

Everyone: No! You're still missing a partner!

The young lady of the Mo family was beautiful and an excellent cook. People had heard that her foolish husband was someone she'd picked up, and that she was actually still unmarried. Matchmakers crowded her doorstep.

Then one day, a handsome young gentleman in fine clothes glowered as he drove her suitors out the door.

Onlooker 1: "Isn't that the foolish husband from before? He cleans up pretty well."

Onlooker 2: "What foolish husband? That's Lord Su, the current Hanlin Academician and deputy director of the Imperial College!"

Onlooker 3: "What is Lord Su doing here? Could he be trying to marry the young lady of the Mo family too?"

Mo Qingqing looked proud. "No! It's because Lord Su loves our restaurant's food too!"

Su Jin smiled without a word, silently correcting her: No delicacy in the world compares to you, not even by a fraction.

#Warmhearted young woman determined to build a fortune X scholar who starts as a puppy and turns into a wolf#

One-on-one, a slow-paced food romance~

Theme: Move forward against the wind and build a new life.