Food, Dating Shows, and Being Everyone's Favorite

[Complete! Please add my upcoming novel, A Marquis by Taming Cats and Dogs, to your favorites. Blurb below~]

It wasn't until she was on her deathbed that Zhen Su learned her fiance had someone else in his heart.

When she opened her eyes again, she was on the set of the dating show The Rules of Romance.

Back then, her family had insisted she join the show to grow closer to her fiance. Thinking the idea was ridiculous, Zhen Su had chosen to leave.

Who could have known that on the show, his unrequited love would win over the other guests with her French macarons?

Including Zhen Su's fiance.

Given a second life, she decided to stay.

She could do without the man, but she wouldn't let her family's ancestral cooking skills lose!

Her rival elegantly presented French macarons.

She lifted a wok with one hand and stir-fried a plate of Kung Pao chicken, tender and juicy with a fresh, spicy kick.

Her rival gently and carefully made a plate of little cream cakes.

She lifted the lid and revealed a pot of drunken crab, carefully picking out the meat as the aroma of wine filled the air.

After the show aired, Zhen Su became an overnight sensation thanks to her cooking!

Viewers shipping the couples picked up their rice bowls.

Everywhere, people were begging, "Big Sis, feed us! We're hungry!"

Her rival came over to steal the spotlight. "Big Sis, where did you learn to cook? Aren't you worried all that smoke will make you age?"

Zhen Su replied indifferently, "My family owns a restaurant. I just help out sometimes."

Her rival sneered. "A little restaurant? No wonder you're so quick with a wok."

Before long, enthusiastic netizens discovered Zhen Su's family's "little restaurant," and were astonished: A luxury restaurant chain found all across China counts as a little restaurant now?!

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Ahhh, I'm getting ready to write a farming-and-pets story, A Marquis by Taming Cats and Dogs. Please add it to your favorites~

[Veterinary Farming, Raising Cats and Enjoying Gossip]

Before she transmigrated into a book, Zhen Qingluan was a veterinarian renowned across the country.

Pet lovers followed her popular science account every day, liking, sharing, and fighting for appointment slots.

They practically treated her like a goddess, ready to burn incense in her honor.

Who would have thought she'd transmigrate into a book and become hated by people and dogs alike?

Even the birds cursed her: "Wicked woman! Wicked woman!"

Oh, so transmigrating into a book came with her ability to read animals' minds, too?

Well, that's fine, then.

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After transmigrating into a book, Zhen Qingluan became the wicked supporting female character who "poisoned the heroine's half-sister."

The villainess accidentally suffered the consequences of her own actions and died, allowing her half-sister to rise to prominence, marry into the General's household in her place, and make a perfect comeback as the heroine.

Zhen Qingluan's part as the villainess was already over.

So, relying on her ability to read animals' minds and her medical skills, she practiced medicine in the countryside, befriending cats and dogs and listening to gossip.

A wealthy young cat lover held her beloved pet and asked anxiously, "Is there any hope for my Wuyun Tuan?"

Zhen Qingluan said, "Your cat can be saved, but you nearly couldn't. Someone tried to poison you by mixing fine arsenic into your restorative medicine. Your cat stole some to test it for you, and, feeling weak, gave its life to tell you the medicine was poisoned and you shouldn't take it."

The young lady: "???"

A young lord who adored dogs lost his beloved pet, couldn't eat or sleep, and offered a huge reward to find it.

The runaway dog thought, "Sigh, it's not that I wanted to run away. I probably don't have long to live. I'm breathing out more than I'm breathing in, so I might as well leave and let us keep our good memories. Then my owner can think I went somewhere nice and won't grieve when I'm gone."

Zhen Qingluan said, "...Save the melodrama. You just swallowed a bone too quickly, and it's stuck in your throat. Get it out and you'll live another five hundred years."

"Oh, and I happen to be short on money. I'll take that reward for finding you as payment for your treatment."

The dog: "???"

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Her half-sister married into the General's household and became the envy of everyone.

She stayed secluded in the inner quarters, waiting for her husband to be made a marquis and looking forward to becoming a grand and celebrated Marchioness. But then an even more illustrious figure appeared in the capital...

This person saved the Empress Dowager's beloved bird, Cui Niangniang, and revived His Majesty's imperial cat, Jiu Qiansui.

She also drove a plague of horse sickness from the army camp, saving ten thousand warhorses, then sent thousands of birds to attack the enemy lines.

A woman who defended her home and country, and was made the Marquis of Mingluan...

Zhen Qingluan?!

Guiding principle: Pass down China's traditional cuisine and promote Chinese culinary culture.