I Make a Fortune Every Day with Food

Highlight: My first book is limited in both writing skill and brainpower, so I don't recommend reading it with logic. Read at your own risk!

Please add my upcoming reborn historical romance, The Young General Is My Lover on the Side (Reborn), to your reading list. Kisses (*/ω\*) The blurb is further down.

▼Blurb for this story▼

[Everyday food and cooking + running a nourishing medicinal food business]

Sheng Zhaochi, a nutritionist, unexpectedly transmigrates into a book and becomes the spendthrift cannon-fodder heroine who sells off her family's inheritance for selfish reasons.

Arrogant, domineering, and unfilial, she squanders the family fortune, then steals her mother's life-saving money to go have fun. In the end, unable to repay her debts, she dies of starvation by the roadside.

She never got to enjoy the extravagant life and ended up saddled with a mountain of debt. The overworked office worker Sheng Zhaochi: ...How is she supposed to play this round?

Fortunately, when she transmigrates into the book, none of it has happened yet. To avoid a tragic end, she sets her mind to rebuilding the family business and refuses to follow the original character's path to ruin.

She returns to her old profession, creating a comprehensive guide to Chinese nutrition and healing foods to turn her fortunes around.

Lamb, pork ribs, and saltwater duck; crab, sea bass, and poached shrimp;

hot pot dishes and glutinous rice chicken; tea, porridge, noodles, and bird's nest soup;

boiling, blanching, frying, braising, searing, stir-frying, and steaming, all while eating your way to better health!

Thanks to Sheng Zhaochi's magic touch, a roadside stall that could barely break even becomes a chain of food shops specializing in nourishing dishes, bringing in a fortune each day and earning fame far and wide. Countless people come to try them.

"Can a nutrition meal developed by a young woman really be that amazing?"

"Sounds like hype. I've never heard of medicine mixed with food curing anything. What nonsense."

But when they leave the shop...

"Boo-hoo, after eating the tasting menu, I don't even snore anymore. I wonder if the owner next door is selling their mansion. Even one room would do. I'll pay double!"

"You're too late. I already bought the last cottage in the neighborhood!"

Just as Sheng Zhaochi's business is growing more successful by the day, she suddenly realizes that the noblewoman who was barely mentioned in the original book has been acting unusually lately.

In the original, this noblewoman was dignified and elegant, always absorbed in calligraphy and painting, indifferent to worldly affairs. She was so far beyond anyone's reach that people could only admire her from afar.

But now she keeps sending Sheng Zhaochi gifts every few days?

And she's eager to watch her cook?

A few days later, Sheng Zhaochi is forced to attend a matchmaking event. To her surprise, the "noblewoman" lets down her hair, takes off her veil, and strides in with fearless confidence. Her clear voice carries a hint of seduction. "A Chi, marry me, and all my wealth will be yours."

Sheng Zhaochi, looking baffled: ...What happened to the noblewoman?!

Reader's guide:

/Everyday food, wellness dishes, and the daily business of running a shop

/One-on-one romance, alternate setting with lots of original elements. Both leads have flaws!

/Please don't fact-check the medicinal dishes. Most of them were sourced online.

/The main story moves at a somewhat slow pace. The author isn't an expert, so corrections are welcome qaq

▼Blurb for the reborn historical romance The Young General Is My Lover on the Side (Reborn)▼

Everyone says the heir of the Duanning Marquisate is refined and proper, exceptionally talented, and devoted and faithful to the Princess Royal. He is truly an ideal husband.

Even Ji Fuyin herself believes this.

Until the night her younger brother stages a rebellion during their father's funeral. The heir, who loves her more than life itself, sends her to the execution ground and personally orders her to be torn apart by chariots.

Only then does she learn that the heir had long been secretly involved with someone else, and had bided his time only to climb to power. She learns that her father's concubine and her half-sister had schemed for years, turning her eldest brother against her until he hated her, and her father until he despised her, before causing her brother's death. She learns that her younger brother had somehow been replaced by someone in disguise, and that she has no idea if he's alive or dead...

When she opens her eyes again, she's back before her wedding.

At that time, everyone is celebrating for her, happy that she's about to marry the man of her dreams and live happily with him for a hundred years.

The funeral banners and bloody shadows are still vivid in her mind, as are all the treacheries and debauchery.

This time, she'll shatter the heir's false devotion with her own hands, put an end to the concubine's sinister ambition, and expose her half-sister's hypocritical act.

She burns the imperial edict she'd once painstakingly obtained to permit her future husband to enter government service, watching the flames consume it until it turns to ash. "The precedent is hard to set. It's a shame the heir's grand ambitions will come to nothing."

Let's start with the career you were most proud of in your last life.

*

Across the Six Continents, everyone knows that Great Zhou has a young general of exceptional talent and appearance, stationed at the border year after year like a ferocious wolf to defend every corner of the realm.

In the twenty-third year of Great Zhou, the young general is summoned back to the capital.

Countless nobles visit him with private agendas. He commands a powerful army, and they hope to arrange a marriage with him to ensure their families' prosperity. But with his gates firmly shut, none of them can get an audience.

What no one knows is that this young general, who remains steadfast on the battlefield against a million troops and even the allure of the enemy's beauty and wealth,

has long held an indescribable youthful longing in his heart.

For her sake, he strives to hide the blood and filth clinging to him, willingly enduring the world's disdain, becoming a sharp blade that belongs only in her hands.

[Bonus Scene]

One day, a deserter from an enemy kingdom flees to Great Zhou and happens upon the Princess Royal's carriage. He hears the common folk speaking with contempt and envy about the officials in the carriage who curry favor with the Princess Royal.

The deserter sneers to himself. Officials? A kingdom's Princess Royal keeps male lovers, and the common folk treat it as idle gossip.

But he can't help peeking inside...

Through a gap in the window that hasn't been fully shut, he sees the general who once scared him so badly he fled the battlefield with his tail between his legs. Now he looks like a bookish young man untouched by bloodshed, stroking the Princess Royal's slender waist as he pins her against the carriage couch.

The brows that should have looked cold and grim are now full of desire. Their noses touch, their breaths mingle, and his lips are curved in unrestrained tenderness. "Your Highness, you may bully your servant like this too."

▼Upcoming fantasy romance: A Guide to Winning Over the Aloof Beauty▼

Zuo Qing was born with a weak destiny and often saw things other people couldn't. She didn't manage to grow up safely to the age of twenty until she put on a string of prayer beads given to her by an old monk.

One day, when she was twenty, the old monk who had given her the beads in childhood came to visit again. He solemnly pointed to the man beside him and said he'd found Zuo Qing an exceptionally rare, once-in-a-thousand-years match.

Zuo Qing looked at the man beside the monk, familiar yet strange. The girlish feelings she'd buried deep in her heart since her school days surged back, and, in a moment of recklessness, she asked, "Master, when is the auspicious day?"

Once she came to her senses, she noticed the man's gaze, which had been drifting in and out of focus ever since he entered, suddenly settle on her face. It was impossible to ignore.

Zuo Qing's ears turned red, but she feigned composure.

No one knew she'd liked this aloof beauty for a long time.

*

Those born with the Buddha's bones are sincere and kind.

Zhong Bai is different. When dealing with people, he can't help having twisted, evil thoughts. He wants to see them suffer and grieve.

On the recommendation of his elders, he became a lay disciple of a revered old monk. He thought the monk was a charlatan, but it turned out he really did learn a few odd skills, including how to control his wicked thoughts.

He drifted through his days without much purpose until one day the monk told Zhong Bai, in no uncertain terms, that he had to go meet his destined partner.

It was the first time the monk had ever been so forceful with him. Zhong Bai raised an eyebrow, mildly interested and not opposed.

But when Zhong Bai met his destined partner, he felt the chains holding back the wicked thoughts he'd restrained deep inside for years begin to melt and crumble, as if they would burst out like a river breaking through its banks at any moment.

For the first time, he wanted to possess someone completely, inside and out.

It was strange, but...

quite thrilling.

1. Cool, aloof, and abstinent guy x a well-behaved rich girl with a rebellious streak

2. Love at first sight, then falling deeper, in a sweet everyday romance

Theme: Swim against the current and you can become a star