A Self-Rescue Guide for the Rejected Female Side Character (Food)

On the very first day after transmigrating into a book as the cannon-fodder heroine in an imperial-exam novel where the heroine breaks off her engagement, Ye Fuqiu's fists were already itching for a fight.

The family restaurant was barely breaking even, and the accounts were empty. Her ungrateful foster brother was scheming to trick her out of the deed and squeeze the Ye family dry. And in the woodshed out back lived the future Grand Secretary, whose family had fallen on hard times and who was staying with the Ye family: the male lead, Gu Yansu, who had just turned fourteen.

The original Ye Fuqiu had humiliated him at every turn, beating and berating him, forcibly breaking off their engagement, and even tearing up the recommendation letter that guaranteed his place in the imperial examinations, all to ruin his prospects.

Three years later, the male lead would make a stunning comeback and place first in the highest imperial examination. The original heroine, still as foolish and wicked as ever, would incur his wrath. He would scheme to make her offend powerful officials, leaving her family ruined, then throw her off a cliff to be devoured by wolves.

That was one serious grudge.

But when Ye Fuqiu saw the boy's slight frame and his lean yet undeniably handsome face, she pinched her thigh.

She picked up the meat porridge from the stove and decided to feed him first. Once someone has eaten your food, surely they would feel too awkward to take revenge on you, right?

Steaming sand soup, glutinous rice cakes, and top-scorer congee...

As she kept feeding him, the young boy became the top scholar, her foster brother was thrown out of the house, and the little restaurant, Ye's, which had been on the verge of closing, somehow grew into a grand restaurant.

Ye Fuqiu rolled up her sleeves and got to work. With her superb cooking, she made victory cakes, top-scorer pastries, and celebration banquets. Ye's imperial-examination meal sets became a sensation in the capital, and one branch after another opened.

Ye Fuqiu transformed into the richest person in the Xia Dynasty!

After being reborn, the first thing Gu Yansu did was leave the Ye family.

But he never expected his wicked fiancee from his past life to be different this time.

She brought him extra clothes when the weather turned cold, asked after his medicine when he was ill, and served him hot food late at night while he studied.

The lessons of his past life remained vivid, so Gu Yansu was all the more wary of the schemes hidden beneath her honeyed words. But he never saw her true colors. Instead, he watched her make her life better and better.

When he placed first in the imperial examinations, dressed in red finery and riding through the streets, everyone in the capital guessed that the new top scholar would marry the daughter of some noble family.

But Gu Yansu swung down from his horse and stopped in front of Ye's.

Ye Fuqiu worked the abacus in her hands without looking up. "We're closed for the day, sir. Please come back tomorrow..."

The top scholar removed the red flower from his chest and placed it in her palm.

She looked up.

The man lowered his eyes and said nothing, while the red flower on the abacus swayed gently.

tips:

1. Both leads are each other's only partners, one-on-one romance, happy ending. The heroine transmigrates into a book; the hero is reborn. The hero remained chaste in both his past and present lives.

2. Daily updates after the novel goes premium. The author will do their best to update. Thanks for reading, dears! Muah =3=

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"Coming next: After I Picked Up the Prince's Empathic Doll"

After transmigrating into the palace as a little maid in the Yan Dynasty, Xie Jingshuang discovered a secret.

The Crown Prince, Gu Shiyu, was every inch the perfect heir in public, a man of grace and virtue praised by all. In private, however, he was volatile and gloomy, and would always stare at her with a sinister look: the cloth doll she had found.

Xie Jingshuang pinched the doll's cheeks, patted its bottom, and felt it all over from head to toe, but found nothing unusual.

She had no idea that, before everyone's eyes at the grand court assembly, the Crown Prince had suddenly stopped in the middle of an impassioned speech. His handsome, jade-like face flushed red, the veins in his neck bulged, and he struggled to suppress the strange sensations spreading through his body.

Before she turned eighteen, Xie Jingshuang looked forward to being sent out of the palace. After eighteen, she just wanted Gu Shiyu to stay far away from her.

When she was forcibly taken to the Crown Prince's palace, Xie Jingshuang thought he was sick. The lofty Crown Prince dropped his mask only in front of her. He could be harsh and cold, yet he could not stop himself from keeping her confined at his side, and after court he always insisted on holding her close and nuzzling her ear.

The man's restrained breaths brushed her neck. Xie Jingshuang blushed scarlet but could not push him away, so she could only secretly pinch the doll to get back at him. Gu Shiyu suddenly let out a muffled groan, and his gaze at her seemed to catch fire.

Gu Shiyu really was sick, afflicted with a strange, unspeakable illness. He longed to be skin to skin with someone almost every moment of every day.

The Crown Prince had restrained himself and observed every propriety until he was nearly driven mad. Then one day, he suddenly began to share sensations with a palace maid's doll.

That little maid behaved outrageously. She not only tucked the doll against her chest, but also manhandled it, making him embarrass himself in front of everyone time and again!

Yet the warmth he felt through the doll eased Gu Shiyu's strange illness. Day after day, he watched Xie Jingshuang smile brightly at other people, while always avoiding him and keeping her distance.

Later, when her true origins were revealed, Xie Jingshuang became a commandery princess and escaped from his side openly and honorably.

Gu Shiyu could not bear it any longer. He would eliminate every person who had won her smile. He would take her back, no matter what!

[A gloomy prince with touch starvation x a lively, cheerful beauty]

Theme: Love life.