Tong Yuman was born in a remote mountain village in the Liang Dynasty. Her family was so poor they could barely afford to eat, and there was never enough food to last from one meal to the next.
Weak with hunger, she fell into a river and drowned.
When she opened her eyes again, she was lying in the Tong family's villa, having become the real daughter who had just been brought home.
After Tong Yuman got used to modern life...
"You can eat as much salt as you want?!"
"You can eat as much sugar as you want, too?!"
"You can eat all the white flour you want?!!"
So while the fake daughter studied hard to earn an advanced degree,
Tong Yuman sneaked out of the villa to eat a bowl of spicy rice noodles with a meat-stuffed flatbread by the roadside.
While the fake daughter practiced her instruments to cultivate her image as a talented young woman,
Tong Yuman took her newly received pocket money to the mall's burger joint and ordered a family feast.
While the fake daughter had become fairly well known in show business after two years,
Tong Yuman was tucking into a bowl of luosifen at a restaurant when the brand's founder happened to spot her...
When she learned that endorsing luosifen meant she could eat it for free for the rest of her life, Tong Yuman nodded like a pecking chick. "I can do it! I can!"
And so she entered show business.
A slow-living variety show:
She ate the steamed buns her neighbors made with soybean paste, then wanted to take the rest home.
A Chinese cooking variety show:
There was no need to worry about wasting the ingredients left over from the guests' cooking. She took care of all of them herself.
A dating variety show:
While everyone else went on dates, she focused on eating, polishing off two bowls of rice with the spicy shrimp made by one of the male guests.
Finally, when she learned that she was the villainess in a book, destined to be trampled underfoot by the fake daughter heroine...
Tong Yuman paused with a rose-shaped cake in her hand. "What book? Can you eat it?"
The spoiled rich kid beside her gritted his teeth and pulled her into his arms. "You're more delicious!"
All she ever did was eat, eat, eat. When would she ever look at him?!
*All settings serve the story. Please don't overanalyze them.
*[Frugal real daughter vs. extravagant spoiled rich kid]
*Both are each other's first and only, with a happy ending. Yuman comes from ancient times and is rather conservative.
*Tong Yuman: Cherish food, starting with me.
*The entertainment industry content mainly involves variety shows. Please move along if that's not your thing.
*[Blurb written on 2023/08/10]
Theme: Every grain of rice and every thread of cloth should remind us how hard they were to come by.