Madam Gao’s Market Stall to Fortune (Food)

[Food] [Business] [Family Life] [Building Wealth]

Freshly graduated food blogger Gao Mingxia opens her eyes to find she's transmigrated, and become a young widow drugged with an aphrodisiac.

She grabs a random man to use as an antidote, but afterward he clings to her like a ghost, insisting he has to take responsibility.

The man needs somewhere to stay, while Gao Mingxia needs a live-in husband to protect the house her late husband left behind. They hit it off and decide on the spot to marry!

But everything in the capital costs money, and Gao Mingxia has nothing to her name. Then she looks at her sickly, handsome husband and nearly goes bald from worrying.

Luckily, she lives next door to the Imperial College. Watching the students come and go every day, Gao Mingxia's eyes light up.

She knows exactly what college students love to eat!

The very next day, she sets up a snack stall outside her home: juicy crispy sausages, golden crispy pancakes with savory sauce, irresistible spicy rabbit, soft and sweet lotus root with osmanthus, spicy hot pot in rich bone broth...

Every day, the students at the Imperial College catch the lingering aroma, and one by one they head straight for Gao Mingxia's stall, pretending to complain even as they eagerly eat.

Copper coins: +1, +2, +3...

From a snack stall to a snack shop, and then from a snack shop to a grand restaurant, Gao Mingxia races headlong down the road to riches!

Later, everyone in the capital realizes something is wrong. Since when did the Imperial College students, those elegant gentlemen as handsome as jade, get so fat? They've even got double chins!

When word gets around that a delicious little snack stall is to blame, everyone comes to investigate, including officials from the court.

But what do they see?

That live-in son-in-law fussing over the shopkeeper and calling her "wife" every other breath, acting so flirtatiously... Why does he look more and more like the missing Grand Secretary?

Reading Guide:

1. A cozy, easygoing food-and-everyday-life story, mostly about running a business. No scheming or court politics, and anything of that sort is only mentioned in passing. Read without worry.

2. The author's style is slow-paced and detailed, with plenty of family life.

3. Three updates a day before signing, six a day afterward.

Theme: Don't lose heart or give up when facing adversity