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After an accident at work, Chen Niangwan woke up in the body of a poor young woman with a miserable life.
Her father had died, and her grandfather and uncles had thrown her out of the Chen family. She and her mother were left to depend on each other and her six-year-old sister. They lived in a crowded courtyard and couldn't even afford the monthly rent, while she was also being forced to marry a wastrel...
It was practically Hard Mode!
Fortunately, Chen Niangwan had exceptional cooking skills to earn a living.
She took her family from hawking food on the street to setting up a stall, then from opening a little shop to running a restaurant, going from a small county town to the capital.
They traded their modest home for a mansion, and she became the ultimate hardworking woman with a fortune to her name.
Along the way, she picked up Zhang Yulang, a refined and handsome young man, to be her husband.
She sent him to school to pursue an official career, cultivating a powerful backer for herself.
"Yulang, you have to study hard. Your teacher says that with your talent, you'll surely pass the highest-level exam next year."
If she raised her husband well, she would become the wife of a top-scoring scholar. Wouldn't that be better than marrying anyone else?
Years later, during the palace examination, the emperor thought he recognized Zhang Yulang, and the Marquis of Yongchang thought he recognized his own rebellious son.
Chen Niangwan also happened to learn that her husband might be the heir to the Marquis of Yongchang's household. She was utterly stunned.
Torn and conflicted, she steeled herself and said, "Since we're not a suitable match, give me a divorce letter and let's set each other free."
"Hmm?" Zhang Yulang pulled his wife into his arms and asked with a faint smile, his lips curling, "Wife, are you sure you can bear to let me go?"
Chen Niangwan looked at her husband's bright, refined face and struggled to swallow.
She... naturally couldn't bear to.
Reader's guide:
1) A farming and business story.
2) An alternate world, slow-burn romance, with the heroine focused mainly on building her career.
3) The dishes featured in the story are mainly from southern Chinese, especially Cantonese, cuisine, including savory dishes, sweet soups, cold drinks, seafood, sauces, and more.
Another food-themed story coming soon, Everyday Foraging by the Sea in Ancient Times. Please add it to your collections!!
Yan Sheng transmigrated into the body of Yan Xiaoniang, a young woman from the Yan family in an ancient fishing village by the sea.
Here, the infamous news story that caused a global disaster never happened: the island nation didn't dump nuclear wastewater into the sea.
The sky was blue, the water was clear, and all the seafood in the ocean currents was still fresh, sweet, and unpolluted, with no mutations.
Yan Sheng plunged straight into the sea and happily spent every day cooking up lavish seafood feasts:
Dried oysters, oyster omelets, oyster fritters; fish balls, fish noodles, rolled fish skin;
crab sticks, crab cakes, crab roe buns; shrimp paste, shrimp dumplings, shrimp roe noodles;
and mouthwatering razor clams, clams, sea mussels, fresh abalone, and horned turban snails, as well as grouper, red snapper, Spanish mackerel, golden pomfret, and giant freshwater prawns!
After eating, she couldn't help going back for more, delighted beyond words!
*
Once word spread that the Yan family's daughter-in-law was a wonderful cook, matchmakers crowded her doorstep, while countless food-loving customers sent her coy glances!
Every day, Yan Sheng found herself fending off all kinds of young gentlemen and matchmakers.
Unable to take it anymore, she grabbed Zhu Sanlang, a madman exiled to Fujian, and used him as a shield.
Who would have thought that after tasting Yan Sheng's cooking, Zhu Sanlang would gradually regain his senses and fall for her culinary skills, becoming enamored with her?
One day, just as Yan Sheng sighed with relief that she could finally enjoy seafood to herself in peace,
Zhu Sanlang said, "Shengsheng, when are we going to worship Heaven and Earth and enter the bridal chamber? (blushing.jpg)"
Yan Sheng: "... (shocked.jpg)"
Good grief, when did the madman come to his senses?
Yan Sheng: "I'm sorry, Master Zhu, but the person I love isn't you. You just happen to look like him. (clever.jpg)"
And so Zhu Sanlang went mad all over again!
Now updating: The Little Miracle Doctor's Search for Her Family. Please add it to your collections!!
Lin Youchan discovered that she had transmigrated into the body of the Lin family's Sixth Miss, who had been switched at birth and married off in place of her legitimate elder sister.
The Sixth Miss was frail and sickly, and the doctor said she had only a year left to live.
After finally managing to recover, she received divorce papers.
Fine, a divorce it is!
Lin Youchan happily headed to the capital to find the man her mother had mentioned, a man surnamed Jiang who was supposed to be her biological father.
She planned to meet her dad, find out what it was like to have one, and find herself a powerful protector at the same time.
But the new emperor had just ascended the throne, and a new generation of officials had replaced the old. Lord Jiang had fallen on hard times years ago.
Mistaking Lord Jiang, the newly appointed chief minister, for her father, Lin Youchan brazenly showed up at his door to claim their relationship.
And so began the capital's little miracle doctor's struggle to stay alive. After overcoming one crisis after another, she finally got to acknowledge her father.
*
Lord Jiang had always used an iron fist to help the new emperor ascend the throne. He was ruthless and sinister, and deeply feared by others.
Still unmarried, Lord Jiang never expected that someone would one day dare to claim to be his daughter.
His face turned cold and his eyes narrowed suspiciously. "Are you really my daughter? What proof do you have?"
Lin Youchan immediately brought out the keepsakes she'd carried for ages and presented them one by one.
Years later, the eldest daughter of the Lin family came to the capital with her husband to take up an official post and pay her respects to Lord Jiang, the chief minister.
To her shock, the famous young lady of the Jiang household, the capital's miracle doctor, was none other than the younger half-sister who had been married off in her place years ago!
Lord Jiang was still ruthless and merciless, but whenever he spoke of his daughter, his face softened with affection.
That's my girl, all right. What a talent!
Lord Jiang, the other one, was still waiting for his beloved daughter at the pavilion ten miles away, longing for her to arrive.
When will my precious girl come to the capital and seek me out?
Completed stories you can enjoy:
Historical farming novel: Miss Han's Journey to Escape Famine and Farm
Historical suspense: The Immortal Censor
Historical mystery: She Solves Crimes by Reading the Air
Historical suspense: A Noble Wife Is Hard to Win
Theme: Independence and building your own career
When She Came to the Northern Wasteland
Good Fortune for a Widow
Daily Life of Gathering Seafood in Ancient Times
When Cultivation Gets Tangled Up in the Plant Kingdom
The Matchmaking Chronicles
Gu Erniang's Everyday Life of Farming in Exile
The Little Miracle Doctor's Search for Her Family
A Record of Farming and Fleeing Famine in Ancient Times
She Solves Crimes by Reading the Air
The Censor Who Just Won't Die
A Noble Wife Is Hard to Win
Pear Song
The security where the heroine lives is really good! They are all up to date with modern times. She shows off her wealth every day and no one pays attention to her family.
It's very cool to see the identity of the male protagonist. Thought he was the prince. Result reversed
The same goes for Uncle He. The design drawings were leaked without even mentioning them, so the heroine is the only one with a big heart.
The next book will be "The Fake Rich Counterattacks After Exile", and you will work hard to make money. Interested little angels, please collect it! For more advance receipts, click on the author's column to see: 1) "Dressed as a Koi Little Chef", I made money in ancient times; 2) "Mistakenly Recognizing First Assistant as Father", the life of peace and separation of the miraculous doctor's daughter; 3) "I Hooked Up with My Late Husband After I Was Widowed", keep the iron bowl of widowhood well.
I really want to watch Liu Feng's extras! He is so interesting
Do you want to give up the inheritance rights of the Hou Mansion?
To be honest, if Liu Feng didn't have the halo of the heroine, he would have been beaten to death countless times in the ancient feudal hierarchical society. Moreover, his careless character was somewhat rude. In the end, he just followed the heroine to make money and then drifted away.
Write more about the heroine's career line. Wow, it's been a long time since I released new food.
I can't quite accept it. Chen Sanlang took the imperial examination. His family should know that they can't make mistakes. When his family wanted to touch the heroine, why didn't Chen San stand up and say a few words to stop him? Although the family is not the original sin, his family did raise him. The hero and heroine are quite holy, and Chen San deserves to be alienated.
If you don't want to have children, just agree from the beginning or you won't get married.