Cooking Begins at the Noodle Shop

2022/8/6

Song Yunran spent half her life disguised as a man, working hard until she finally became the head eunuch of the Imperial Kitchen. Just as she was about to retire in glory and return home, a heartless ingrate exposed her identity. Not only was she sentenced to die by strangulation with a white silk sash, but she also dragged down Eunuch Qin, who had always helped her.

Song Yunran: ...

I curse him to lie awake every night from now on!

After uttering her final curse, Song Yunran closed her eyes. When she opened them again, she was astonished to find that she had transmigrated to Blue Star and inherited a noodle shop on the verge of closing. Even the elderly doorman at the shop looked exactly like Eunuch Qin from her past life.

Her: !

Feeling deeply indebted to the old man from her previous life, Song Yunran decisively put her studies on hold to get the noodle shop back on its feet.

When the news got out...

At first:

Her classmates: Hey, have you heard? Song Yunran from the Classical Literature Department, the so-called genius girl from Wuling, has taken a leave of absence to run a noodle shop. Turns out her fake persona finally fell apart! [Applause] [Applause]

One week later:

Classmate A: Have you heard? The Yunran Noodle Shop by the school's north gate is incredible. The food tastes great, and it even brings good luck! I'm usually the unluckiest person ever, but after eating there, I won five million in the lottery!

Classmate B: Yeah, right. Have you been reading too many novels?

Two weeks later:

Rumors were spreading all over Nanda University about a magical noodle shop by the north gate. The food was amazing, and eating there brought you a ridiculous amount of good luck!

From then on, people flocked to Yunran Noodle Shop. Until one day, everyone noticed a strange man had shown up. He never placed an order, and even when he did, he would just lie beside his bowl of noodles and snore away.

Everyone: ...

How could anyone treat such delicious food like that!

Indignant, they went over to wake him up.

Then they realized the man was the handsome new instructor in the Ancient Martial Arts Department!

Everyone: !!!

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Ruan Yunsong suffered from a rare case of insomnia. A dose of medicine that would have been lethal to most people only let him sleep lightly for ten minutes, and even then, he always dreamed of a blood-soaked boy pointing at him and cursing through his tears: I curse you to never sleep peacefully again!

Because of this, he'd spent the first half of his life suspecting he was gay.

Then one day, he happened to walk into a noodle shop. When he saw that the owner had almost exactly the same face as the boy from his dreams, he finally understood how wrong he'd been.

P.S. I'm bad at writing blurbs, so I'll leave it like this for now.

Theme: Stay optimistic and keep striving