Lin Luo, a culinary arts inheritor, accidentally transmigrates into a book and becomes a cannon-fodder character in a period novel.
As the stepmother who abused the tragic, powerful antagonist, she is the backdrop for his descent into darkness.
Her only appearance in the story is in the three lines describing her tragic fate after the antagonist rises to power.
Luckily, when Lin Luo transmigrates, the main plot has yet to begin.
The original owner works at the state-run restaurant that everyone envies, and even receives a monthly pension payment.
Unfortunately, she gives all that money to a cruel scumbag.
She also starves the young antagonist until he's gaunt, leaving him to survive on other people's leftovers.
Looking at the filthy, scrawny kid, Lin Luo thinks, He'll be cute once he's cleaned up.
She kicks the scumbag to the curb and sets herself a few rules: cook well, raise the kid right, and stay away from the male lead.
Starting as a kitchen helper at the state-run restaurant, she works her way up to head chef and eventually makes a name for herself nationwide.
She ends up living a happy life with money and free time, and a husband who's gone missing.
Gu An has known since childhood that he can't rely on his stepmother.
Every month, she takes the family's money and comes back empty-handed.
He can only pick through the neighbors' leftovers, and without a tuition waiver, he probably wouldn't even be able to go to school.
But it doesn't matter. Gu An remembers what his father told him.
One day, he'll use his own strength to drive the bad people out of the house!
Then one day, his stepmother not only comes home with money, but makes him a delicious meal, too.
Gu An: So this is the bad guy's sugar-coated scheme.
He has to stay alert. He absolutely cannot let his guard down!
But the food is so delicious that, as he eats, Gu An realizes...
He might not want to drive this bad person away after all...
After completing a secret mission, Gu Xiao has just breathed a sigh of relief when he dreams that the child at home is being mistreated.
He races home, but when he opens the door, he's stunned.
Gu An is standing obediently by the stove, handing a spatula to a woman.
He's practically drooling.
And in the mailbox by the door, there are even several love letters addressed to her, each signed by someone different?
[Reader's Guide]
1. A food-and-child-rearing story. The child is the orphan of a fallen comrade, not the male lead's biological child.
2. The male lead appears late. A prophetic dream makes him somewhat cold toward the female lead at first, but he eventually falls for her.
Theme: Science-based parenting
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