The Lucky Chef's Road to Wealth

Imperial banquet chef Wen Ying transmigrated with a blind-box System.

She became Wen Ying, a foolish girl abandoned by her prosperous older brother and sister-in-law because she was both mentally disabled and gravely ill.

Burning with fever and barely conscious, she instinctively opened the System sign-in page. A flash of white light later, several items had appeared in her inventory.

[One box of ibuprofen capsules]

[One clay pot filled with clean water]

[One iron wok that never scorches food]

And a notification: Blind-Box System. The Host can randomly open three blind boxes each day through sign-in. Items from the blind boxes can be stored in or taken out of the inventory.

After taking ibuprofen and surviving, Wen Ying thought, A blind-box System? That's interesting.

The villagers soon discovered that the lonely, helpless “fool” Wen Ying had turned her misfortune around. After her high fever, she had become clever and bright, and had acquired a remarkable talent for cooking.

Almond porridge, five-blessing cakes, tofu stuffed with chopped chili and scallions,

sour jujube cake, mochi balls, mung bean soup with licorice and rock sugar,

chicken feet stew, spicy rabbit, home-style stir-fried and braised pork intestines.

With Wen Ying's cooking, the Wen family's home began to send out delicious aromas every day, so tempting that people couldn't bring themselves to leave!

Even more astonishing than her miraculous cooking was Wen Ying's incredible luck.

She went down to the river and fished out a giant clam with a pearl inside! She went up the mountain and found a wild ginseng root shaped like a person! Even when she fell into a pit in the grass...

Wait, how did she come home from the pit with a handsome fool?

Crown Prince Gu Xuanzhou was ambushed while traveling incognito.

Gravely wounded, he was brought home by a foolish girl.

The villagers all laughed that a fool had picked up a cripple, and that they were made for each other.

At first, Gu Xuanzhou forced himself to stay there. He followed the foolish girl as she planted vegetables, raised pigs, and went into town to sell food, spending a while living the life of a country lad.

Later, his subordinates found him, and his wounds had healed.

Wen Ying assumed he was a young master from a wealthy family who had gotten lost. She said he could repay her for taking him in with a little extra silver.

Gu Xuanzhou pointed at his subordinates and pretended to be a fool on the spot. “I don't know them.”

[This story is set in a fictional world. It is a lighthearted everyday-life farming story and a food-centered business-building story. The heroine has an extremely powerful golden finger, and the System automatically rationalizes the items she gets from the blind boxes.]

Theme: Keep striving to live