The Pretty Chef of the Seventies' Little Restaurant

★ My new book next door, "The Pretty Young Stepmom's Everyday Life in the Family Courtyard [The 1970s]," is updating now. Please add it to your reading list ≧u≦

[The ending is rushed, so read at your own risk QnQ]

When she woke up, culinary genius Yan Ruoyue had transmigrated into the role of a kitchen helper at a state-run restaurant in the 1970s.

From the start, she was facing the restaurant's impending shutdown for rectification, the loss of her job, and a mountain of debt waiting for her.

Fortunately, Yan Ruoyue was a skilled cook before she transmigrated. Whether it was squid tubes in savory sauce, a quick stir-fry of mango and beef, or crab and chicken wing casserole, she could easily whip up all kinds of dishes no one had ever heard of. Best of all, they were affordable!

Thanks to her outstanding skills, the unremarkable little restaurant soon became the most popular place to eat in the area, and Yan Ruoyue went from a server to the restaurant's first female manager before she knew it!

Just as everyone was green with envy over her wonderful life, Yan Ruoyue was fretting day in and day out.

No one could have guessed that, on the very first day after she arrived, the area's famously cold-faced young master had latched onto her. He pestered her every day, all just to eat the food she cooked with her own hands...

Lu Yueting came from a family of cadres, was handsome, and had a great job. He was the most sought-after blind date at the materials factory, but he was icy and kept every woman at arm's length. Yet the moment he saw Yan Ruoyue, he wore a shameless grin like a little kid!

One day, Lu Yueting was clinging to her again. Yan Ruoyue kicked out at him. "Go away! I'm busy working on new dishes!"

Lu Yueting couldn't stand for that. Without another word, he pulled Yan Ruoyue into bed. "Why bother with new dishes? Why don't you work on me instead~!"

★ The following is my new book, "The Pretty Young Stepmom's Everyday Life in the Family Courtyard [The 1970s]" ★

Song Xuelian of Hongfeng Brigade had bright, beautiful eyes and skin as smooth as jade. Everyone agreed she was the village beauty.

Her parents had died young, and she lived with her paternal aunt's family. They could barely get by on her cousin's meager income. Her sister-in-law nagged her to get married, her little nephew was a handful, and her aunt always took her own son's side. Driven by circumstance, she reluctantly accepted a marriage proposal from the director of a steel mill.

Just as everyone in the brigade thought she was about to move to the city and enjoy a good life, she discovered the night before her departure that her fiance had gotten drunk and slept with her good friend and neighbor, Chen Yuying, mistaking her for Xuelian!

Even more absurdly, after the women's director and both families stepped in to mediate, she was mistakenly "assigned" to Qin Shuo, the man who had been set up on a blind date with her good friend!

Everyone knew Qin Shuo came from a good family and was an officer in the army, but he was aloof and proud. He had been married before and had taken in two mischievous children as his own. They were so troublesome that they had driven off nearly every woman Qin Shuo had been set up with. Worse still, his mother was sharp-tongued and mean!

When they heard Song Xuelian would be marrying into the army and moving to a frigid mountain village in the Northeast, everyone shook their heads and grimaced in sympathy. Such a pretty young woman was going to that impoverished backwater to become someone's stepmother and suffer at the hands of her mother-in-law!

Even Chen Yuying felt somewhat guilty, thinking Xuelian was going to suffer in her place.

Everyone expected the couple's marriage to fall apart soon, with Xuelian divorcing him and running back to her parents' home in tears.

But no one expected that after the wedding, with the help of the "private stash" her husband gave her, Xuelian would live a heavenly life, eating meat at every meal, with a doting husband and two exceptionally well-behaved children~

Years later, Chen Yuying found that Qin Shuo, once a cold and arrogant block of ice, had become a clingy, doting husband who couldn't bear to be apart from his wife!

He spent all day following Xuelian around, craving her braised pork with potatoes, pork ribs stewed with corn, braised pork knuckle, and fragrant roasted leg of lamb!

Even her mother-in-law treated her more lovingly than her own son, and the two mischievous kids clung to Xuelian, sweetly calling her "Mom."

Chen Yuying watched with burning eyes, then glanced at the useless husband beside her, whom she'd seduced herself. Her face and neck flushed with anger. Had she been kicked in the head by a donkey back then?!

Theme: A lovey-dovey young couple building a prosperous life together!