P.S.:
1. The plot serves the romance.
2. It's a romance disguised as a food story early on. There may be fewer food-related elements in the middle and later parts.
3. The leads establish their relationship quickly at first; the romantic push and pull takes place in the original book.
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Wen Xianqing, a chef in the modern era, transmigrates into a book as the useless eldest daughter of the Imperial Observatory. She trusts the wrong people and suffers constant bullying, and even her closest family members meet tragic ends.
To change her fate, she resolutely decides to open a restaurant in a remote backwater, only to discover... she's broke.
Young General: Don't worry, I'll pay!
With the young general's investment, her restaurant business thrives, and Wen Xianqing also comes to recognize someone's true feelings.
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Before and after she transmigrates into the book, Wen Xianqing has a bud-shaped birthmark on the back of her neck. She never imagined that it would not only bloom, but become a lotus with two flowers on one stem.
Whenever the lotus birthmark changes, she dreams of fragments from the original owner's past.
Including moments from her childhood with her young childhood friend that the original book never mentioned.
The twelfth month of the tenth year of Pingzhi is when the original book ends, and when the lotus with two flowers on one stem at the back of Wen Xianqing's neck finally blooms in full.
That day, she finally learns that after the original owner died, Young General Chu had fallen completely into darkness.
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From the original male lead's perspective:
Chu Huaixu keeps a bright moon hidden in his heart.
But the moon has no idea how he feels.
In the warmth of spring, he watches the childhood sweetheart he treasures marry someone else. He knows the moonlight will never shine on him again.
He thought she would find happiness after marrying into the Lu family, never imagining that her husband would mistreat the woman he had longed for but could never have.
Worse still... he killed her.
From that moment on, he plunged into an abyss of no return.
Theme: You make your own fortune
It's great, can't wait for the next chapter!