A Couch Potato's Everyday Food Check-Ins

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Blurb for this novel

The office worker Xu Sanqi transmigrates.

The bad news: She still has to clock in.

The good news: It's for food check-ins.

From the start, she has a bare-bones home, not a single measure of grain in storage, elderly and young family members to care for, and lives in a place where food is hard to come by.

No problem. If she doesn't have enough money, the System will make up the difference!

[Congratulations, user Xu Sanqi! You've been granted access to the unlimited, permanent closed beta of A Cooking Life from Scratch!]

[This game features a variety of play styles, meticulous design, and rich content. It brings together recipes from numerous cookbooks, with a laid-back daily check-in system at its core. It also includes a highly open-ended quest system and a generous card-drawing system. If you can imagine it, we can make it happen!]

Limited-time quest: [One serving of sweet and sour fish. Check-in successful! Reward: A copy of the Thousand Cuts Technique!]

Collect-them-all quest: [Twenty baskets of steamed buns. Check-in successful! Reward: A classic soup base recipe!]

Business quest: [Two hundred bowls of sesame sauce noodles. Check-in successful! Reward: A set of eighteen secret noodle-twirling techniques!]

With her superb cooking skills, Xu Sanqi opens restaurant after restaurant, and her life gets better and better. So many people come to her door to discuss business that they're nearly wearing down the threshold.

"Boss Xu, I'd like to order lunchboxes for next month! No, make it for a whole year!"

"Boss Xu, do you have any crab roe buns left? I'll take two hundred!"

"I got here first! Boss Xu, I want..."

By then, only one person still dares to show up at her house with an empty fish basket and ask for a meal.

Xu Sanqi: "Fishing without bait?"

Shen Geng: "I'm hoping you'll take pity on me, miss."

Reading Guide:

1. One-on-one romance, both leads sexually inexperienced.

2. Fantasy setting, not historically rigorous.

Blurb for upcoming novel The Proud Dragon's Fiancée Stops Pretending

On the day her engagement is called off, Xu Xiangyao unexpectedly learns that she is the villainess in a face-slapping, power-leveling novel about a proud dragon-like hero.

Her fiancé, Ling Qingqiu, is the chosen one, while she is the wicked young lady who looks down on the poor and bullies him into declaring, "Don't look down on a young man just because he's poor."

Watching the young man cut off a corner of his robe in the hall, Xu Xiangyao knows that once this petty boy makes it big, her whole family is in for trouble.

What's done is done. Xu Xiangyao can only put on a secret identity and follow him afterward. Whether she has to act sweet and obedient or give him all the help she can, she's determined to make him give up on taking revenge on her family!

So, to his face, Xu Xiangyao flatters him: "What impressive skills, young hero!"

Behind his back, she grumbles about him: "Such a clumsy brute."

Ling Qingqiu hears every word. "You're crazy."

They trade insults, but still set off together.

They seek treasure in secret realms, with Xu Xiangyao sniffling as she scouts ahead.

They fight monsters above their level, with Xu Xiangyao trembling as she provides support.

When Ling Qingqiu is poisoned by a Gu, Xu Xiangyao timidly begs the novel's chosen heroine to treat him. The poison isn't cured, but at least she manages to bring the destined couple together.

Xu Xiangyao feels she may not deserve all the credit, but she's certainly done her share of the work. At last, Ling Qingqiu agrees to stop holding her family's broken engagement against them.

While the young couple pours their hearts out to each other, Xu Xiangyao packs her things and heads home, ready to go back to her carefree life as a young lady.

After playing the coward for half a year, it's finally her turn to find a few handsome confidants and enjoy some drinks!

Just as expected, Ling Qingqiu soon makes a name for himself in the cultivation world.

From then on, everyone assumes he won't spare Xu Xiangyao, who once humiliated him.

Until the day of a wedding banquet at the Xu residence. Ling Qingqiu arrives after traveling day and night, and everyone is stunned to see that he and the Xu family's young lady have identical, striking marks at the sides of their necks.

"A Fu, you lied to me?"

The young man kisses the corner of her lips, unconcerned with the crowd. Behind his back, his fingers are clenched so tightly that they bleed.

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At first, Ling Qingqiu thought he and Xu Xiangyao had met when they were both at their lowest.

Later, he thought she had always been meant to marry him.

Theme: A good meal is essential.