Name: Second Daughter Song’s Guide to Getting Rich
Author: Xiang Ye

Synopsis

[Story Blurb]

Song Li had been unlucky all her life. After she died, she discovered she'd entered a book, only to become an unlucky girl whose family was doomed.

Her father was a scapegoat, soon to be innocently beheaded after getting caught up in a coup plot.

Her sister's future husband would be a wolf in sheep's clothing who abandoned his wife and child.

Her brilliant older brother would lose his status and career because of their father's troubles.

After their family fell apart, her younger brother would wander the streets and starve to death in the freezing winter.

And she was the first cannon-fodder character in this family of supporting characters to die.

Taking advantage of the right time, place, and circumstances, she cleverly escaped the jaws of death.

To escape poverty and change the Song family's fate, she started a food business.

From a humble street stall to a bustling shop, she eventually became the famous proprietress of the Song Sugar Company in Yizhou.

She made money with ease, changed the Song family's tragic fate, and lived happily with them.

Only, from then on, she had a strange little tail following her around.

Zhong Shiyan, whom she'd rescued from a bandit den, seemed to look at her a little differently?

*

Zhong Shiyan had been reborn nine times.

Each time, he struggled to survive, only to be killed again.

On his tenth attempt, just as he was ready to give up in utter despair, the fate he could never defy finally changed for the first time.

And it was all because of a girl called the Second Young Lady of the Song family.

He soon realized that Second Miss Song was the variable, and also his salvation.

Reading Guide:

1) Food and business + endless rebirths.

2) A slow burn. The female lead focuses on her career, and the industries featured are related to food and the customs of Shu (Sichuan).

3) Set in a fictional world. Please don't nitpick historical details.

4) The mystery surrounding rebirth is a secondary plotline.

Yan Sheng transmigrated into the body of Yan, a young woman from the Dan family in an ancient seaside fishing village.

Here, the major event that caused a global catastrophe never happened: the neon country never dumped nuclear wastewater.

The sky is blue, the water is clear, and the seafood in the ocean currents hasn't mutated. It's still fresh, delicious, and unpolluted.

Yan Sheng plunged into the sea and spent every day cooking seafood feasts, so happily she forgot all about the world around her:

Dried oysters, oyster omelets, and crispy oyster cakes; fish balls, fish soup, and fish-skin rolls;

Crab sticks, crab cakes, and crab roe buns; shrimp paste, shrimp dumplings, and shrimp roe noodles;

And mouthwatering razor clams, clams, sea mussels, fresh abalone, and spider conchs, plus grouper, red snapper, Spanish mackerel, golden pomfret, and giant prawns!

Once she'd eaten, she'd crave more, and she was delighted beyond words!

*

Once word spread that the Yan family's young lady was a talented cook, matchmakers came knocking in droves, while countless food-loving customers sent her flirtatious glances!

Yan Sheng spent every day turning away young gentlemen and matchmakers.

When she couldn't take the bother any longer, she grabbed the madman Zhu Sanlang, who'd been exiled to Fujian, and used him as a shield.

Who could have guessed that after tasting Yan Sheng's cooking, Zhu Sanlang would gradually regain his sanity, become enamored with her skills, and fall for her?

One day, just as Yan Sheng sighed with relief, thinking she could finally enjoy seafood to her heart's content in peace,

Zhu Sanlang said, "Shengsheng, when are we going to bow to Heaven and Earth and enter the bridal chamber?" (Blushing.jpg)

Yan Sheng: "..." (Shocked.jpg)

Good heavens, when did the madman come to his senses?

Yan Sheng: "I'm sorry, Sir Zhu. 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!