The Seventies: Becoming a State Banquet Chef Again

Imperial banquet chef Xiang Yunwei transmigrates into a book, becoming the tragic female supporting character in a period novel.

In the original story, her family has just sold her to a fool as his bride for the price of six eggs. After that, she pines obsessively for the male lead in vain, is seduced by the second male lead and loses her virtue, then dies in childbirth. Her miserable life serves to highlight the female lead Song Qing's happiness and fulfillment.

As for the original plot, Xiang Yunwei has tasted all kinds of delicacies, but she refuses to suffer for love.

She leaves the male lead behind, rolls up her sleeves, and uses her excellent cooking skills to land a job as head chef in the village primary school's cafeteria.

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Everyone in Dawa Village feels sorry for the Xiang family's youngest daughter, saying she's had a hard life because she was sold to a fool as his bride. But they also laugh at her, saying she deserves it for overestimating herself and trying to steal Song Qing's man.

But as they laugh, the Xiang family's youngest daughter becomes the cafeteria's head chef, then goes to the city and opens a restaurant. Whenever she returns to the village, she rides in a shiny new car. Even Song Qing's man, the most successful man in the village, still only has a motorcycle.

Her restaurant eventually opens in the capital, and the Xiang family's youngest daughter takes her little fool of a husband along, too. Word is that her young husband got into university and was later hired as a university professor through a special appointment.

It turns out the little fool isn't really foolish. He's just quiet. And the things he writes on paper aren't meaningless scribbles, but math problems no one else can understand.

Reader's Note:

1. This is a fictional period setting, very loosely based on reality, with plenty of author-created details.

2. The author isn't a professional chef. Recipes come from books and film and television. Corrections are welcome if there are any mistakes.

3. Updated daily. If an update can't be posted before eleven at night, there will be a notice.

* My completed novels: The Real Heiress Becomes a Tycoon by Raising Pigs (Transmigration), The Apocalypse Powerhouse Blows Up the Kitchen on a Dating Show

* Coming soon: Delivering Takeout in a Mecha

Food blogger Wei Qinglan accidentally transmigrates into a world of interstellar travel. To receive a living allowance, she enrolls in a military academy. Her unconventional training methods soon make her the most popular new student. In a nutshell, at the academy, while everyone else fights, she eats.

At the military academy's freshman trials, everyone else aims to win by killing a 64-legged S-rank star beast, the octopus.

Wei Qinglan: With all those tentacles, it'd make great takoyaki.

At the academy's mecha competition, everyone else aims to win glory for their school.

Wei Qinglan: With so many people here to watch, a fried chicken stand would do great business.

Before long, Wei Qinglan's cooking wins over the entire interstellar world. Her food isn't just delicious, it also boosts mental power. Humans and nonhumans across the stars rush to grab a number and line up for a taste.

Before breaking off his engagement to Wei Qinglan, the son of an interstellar fuel tycoon declares that she is worthless now that she's lost her noble status. After trying chicken backs once, the entire interstellar world broadcasts: "Noble status is trash. Chicken backs are the only thing worth having."

The greatest mecha master of the era has spent his life refusing to take on students, and the finest mecha-building techniques are on the verge of being lost. But after tasting spicy bullfrog once, he offers up his life's work in exchange for a lifetime membership at Wei Qinglan's little shop.

The imperial crown prince's motto for the first half of his life is, "I will cast aside anything that keeps me from becoming stronger." For the second half, it becomes, "I will cast aside anything that keeps my wife from eating."

The only one whose attitude never changes is Leo, who appears to be a lifelike robotic cat but is actually a fragment of the crown prince's soul. Before a meal, he tells Wei Qinglan, "Wifey, cuddle me." After the meal, he still says, "Wifey, cuddle me!"

Theme: Hard work brings prosperity; create a beautiful new life with your own hands.