Reborn as the Real Daughter and Cannon Fodder of a Period Novel [Gourmet]

[Coming Soon: The Real Daughter, a Cannon-Fodder in a 1970s Novel, Rises to the Top]

(Starting today, the story will conclude with Chapter 25.)

Ruan Xiaotao transmigrates into a novel set in the 1970s, becoming the sickly real daughter: talentless and useless, with a husband who is an idiot. Her biological parents despise and abuse her, making her work like an ox and eat like a horse while she suffers their scorn.

Ruan Xiaotao: Am I supposed to put up with this?

She immediately decides to devour their food stores and turn their home upside down.

Ruan Xiaotao never goes back on her word. If she says she'll eat, she eats; if she says she'll cause trouble, she does. Her idiot husband also does exactly as she says, keeping the old couple in a constant state of panic until they spend every day praying the two of them will leave.

But Ruan Xiaotao says, "Haven't you heard that it's easy to invite a Buddha in, but hard to see one out?"

In the end, the old couple can no longer take it. They have to pay the two troublesome guests to leave, and even throw in freshly fried chicken legs, roast pork belly, lotus-leaf chicken, and other delicacies.

After leaving, Ruan Xiaotao returns to the countryside to get started on her farming ambitions.

When the fake daughter and Ruan Xiaotao's parents learn she has gone off to farm, they all laugh at her. "Ha! What kind of future can you have farming?"

"Country bumpkins don't know any better. This is as far as she'll ever get, haha."

But then they see it for themselves:

Ruan Xiaotao grows cucumbers that help people slim down, tomatoes that brighten the skin, and all kinds of other produce. She earns recognition from the Agricultural Sciences Academy, appears on CCTV News, takes the number-one spot on the world's rich list, and becomes one of Huaguo's Ten Most Inspiring People!

The fake daughter and Ruan Xiaotao's biological parents never imagined she could become so successful. The immense shock makes them faint on the spot.

When Ruan Xiaotao hears about it, she says, "Serves them right!"

But Ruan Xiaotao has a problem, too: her idiot husband suddenly isn't an idiot anymore, and he keeps trying to tempt her. She really can't handle it!

What should she do? Help, urgently!

P.S. A loyal, tragic, handsome male lead x a valiant, capable, hardworking female lead.

Both leads are each other's first and only, one-on-one happy ending. Their romance is a story of mutual healing and redemption. Fictional setting.

At first, the leads only feel affection as siblings and friends. They are not legally married.

★ Coming Soon: The Real Daughter, a Cannon-Fodder in a 1970s Novel, Rises to the Top

Yun Nuannuan transmigrates into a novel set in the 1970s as the cannon-fodder real daughter. Unfortunately, her biological parents think she's crude and ill-mannered, and won't even let her sit at the table to eat.

Yun Nuannuan refuses to take that kind of treatment. She cuts ties and leaves, then uses goods from the plane-hopping shop in her golden finger to set up a stall outside a school. She even advertises her wares.

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Her former relatives all react the same way:

Her biological parents: What a good-for-nothing. How much money can you make selling things at a stall?

Her adoptive parents: She's got no brains.

The fake daughter: Who would buy this stuff? You'll go broke.

But to everyone's surprise, parents who buy Yun Nuannuan's Five Years of Mock Exams and Three Years of Past Gaokao Papers rave about it, while the children who use it end up in tears. Other parents rush to buy copies, too. Yun Nuannuan gradually builds her business, and eventually becomes a company president.

When her biological and adoptive parents hear the news, they all come looking for a handout.

Yun Nuannuan: One bad-luck charm each. Don't rush.

Before she can pull out the charms, a boy runs over and chases them away.

Wait, isn't that the male lead from the original novel?

★ Coming Soon: Who Says Traditional Chinese Medicine Is a Scam? [1990s]

Shui Miaomiao, heir to a family of medicinal cuisine practitioners, transmigrates into a novel set in the 1970s as a young traditional Chinese medicine doctor. Here, TCM practitioners are dismissed as ignorant frauds!

Shui Miaomiao: Am I supposed to put up with this? She'll prove TCM's worth!

She promptly opens a TCM medicinal cuisine restaurant and starts promoting her dishes: red date and chrysanthemum porridge for beauty and healthy skin, ginseng fish head soup to ease insomnia, poria and tangerine rice cakes to dispel dampness, and dishes to treat kidney deficiency...

At first, passersby don't believe the cakes and soups can have such miraculous effects. They think Shui Miaomiao is just out to make a quick buck, so they come to wreck her business. Instead, she points out several of their health problems.

"You have kidney deficiency!"

"You're anemic!"

"You're impotent!"

The customers: "Stop, stop! Fine, I'll buy something!"

The customers who came to cause trouble reluctantly buy Shui Miaomiao's medicinal cuisine, only to eat their words. The results are just too good: their kidney deficiency, anemia, impotence, and other ailments are all cured.

Traditional Chinese medicine is amazing!

Later, the line outside Shui Miaomiao's restaurant grows so long it nearly circles the capital. She makes a fortune and is busier than ever.

A little scene:

One day, a famous movie star brings Shui Miaomiao a banner of thanks and says, "Doctor Miaomiao, if it weren't for you, I might have become the first movie star in the world to die suddenly because I couldn't sleep."

He reaches out to shake her hand in gratitude, but the Maine Coon beside her glares at him.

The movie star: "This is too much pressure. Maybe I won't shake her hand after all."

After he leaves, Shui Miaomiao hugs her cat and says, "Yinyin didn't bump into anyone today. You deserve a little cake."

Once the movie star is gone, the Maine Coon transforms into a tall, handsome man and puts his arms around Shui Miaomiao. "Miaomiao, you know that's not what I want."

The cat is the male lead!

★ Completed Novel: Raising Kids with Food in the 1970s [Book Transmigration]

Only after being reborn does Gu Yunxin learn that she is a cannon-fodder character in a book, and that her two children are destined for a tragic fate.

After returning to the past, she gets a face-slapping System and starts cooking delicious food while giving everyone a taste of their own medicine.

When the villagers think selling food at a stall has no future, she starts selling spicy hot pot, rice noodles, liangpi, and other tasty dishes.

The villagers: "How much can you make at a stall? You'd be better off getting a job."

Then they see Gu Yunxin's stall thriving, with people showing up an hour early just to buy her food.

Seeing how much Gu Yunxin earns, the villagers think they can do the same, so they all copy her. But none of them can compete, and they end up losing everything.

All they can do is watch Gu Yunxin's business grow stronger and stronger. Riding the wave of reform and opening up, she successfully builds the country's first private enterprise.

By then, she is on a whole different level from them. With no other recourse, they start spreading rumors everywhere: Gu Yunxin killed her husband, and no one would ever dare marry her.

Then the aloof heartthrob Zhou Qingyan kneels before her with 999 roses and proposes on the spot.

The villagers: "Ouch, that stings!"

Even worse for them, Gu Yunxin and Zhou Qingyan raise her children into outstanding young people. The pair become the first ice dance team in Xia Country's history to win a Grand Slam.

The villagers: "Damn, comparing ourselves to her is just infuriating."

Gu Yunxin: "It's no big deal, no big deal."

Then she looks at the kids, glances at the countless red bills in her hands, and takes Zhou Qingyan's hand. "Come on, let's go home and stew some pig's trotters!"

Couple: aloof heartthrob Zhou Qingyan x valiant, forthright Gu Yunxin, who loves and hates boldly.

Zhou Qingyan: "The moment I saw you, I finally understood what it means to love someone at first sight for a lifetime."

P.S. Fictional world, with a System and a romance, one-on-one happy ending.

The male lead has never been with anyone.

Message: Keep your feet on the ground.