I’ll Cook for You and Keep You Fed [Gourmet]

An everyday farming story about food, cooking, and romance Dai Qianen started standing on a stool to cook at the age of seven. Gifted and hardworking, she was named one of China’s top chefs at twenty-five. But before she had even had time to enjoy her certificate, she died in a car accident and transmigrated into the body of Dai Qianen, a street punk. The street punk also had two kids in tow: her late brother and sister-in-law’s orphans. The girl was fourteen and rebellious; the boy was eight and a little terror. The three of them lived off the compensation their brother and sister-in-law had received after dying in a work-related accident. The girl wore ripped jeans, had her ears pierced, and was dating young. Her boyfriend smoked, got into fights, had terrible grades, and was obsessed with the emo look. Dai Qianen took one look at the boy, who barely reached 170 centimeters even with his emo hairstyle, then bought fifty copies of a bestselling sweet campus romance from a popular online fiction site and tossed them to the older kid. “My girl’s got too much going for her to settle for anyone less than a novel’s male lead,” Dai Qianen told her. With Dai Qianen showering her with praise, the girl gradually got back on track. The younger kid secretly took the crispy pork bites he had made to school to sell for one yuan each, until his homeroom teacher caught him. Dai Qianen was summoned to the teacher’s office. The homeroom teacher was a handsome, refined man with glasses. “Parents aren’t allowed to sell things at school.” After they got home, Dai Qianen asked the boy, “Did the crispy pork sell well?” He pulled a big wad of colorful bills from his schoolbag. That gave Dai Qianen a new idea. She could open a restaurant. * At first, Dai Qianen only wanted to open a little shop selling crispy pork bites. Then the kids said her cooking was delicious, so she opened a small restaurant. Then the neighbors said her Sichuan food was authentic, so she opened a Sichuan restaurant. Then her customers asked her to open more locations, so she did. Dai Qianen took their advice, opening more and more branches as business boomed. She started to panic. She knew how to cook, but not how to manage a business! The younger kid’s handsome homeroom teacher volunteered to help run it. To her surprise, he did such a good job that the company was ready to go public. Dai Qianen offered him a generous annual salary. The teacher refused, nudging his glasses up. “I’m easy to look after. Just feed me.” Dai Qianen agreed readily. “Sure. I’ll cook for you.” Only later did Dai Qianen learn that her young teacher was the heir to a multinational corporation. And when he said he wanted her to feed him, he meant all sorts of other things, too... Coming soon: Please follow my childcare story, The Kindergarten at the End of the World In the apocalypse, supplies are scarce and resources are dwindling. A viral contamination has spawned countless mutated beasts, and even humans can mutate and lose their humanity. Wen Xu transmigrates from modern civilization into this world, where he becomes the head of a kindergarten. He won’t have to spend all day fighting mutants, so Wen Xu initially thinks he’s landed an easy job. But all the children at his kindergarten were born to mutated humans. Most of them have strange personalities, and they could mutate at any moment, lose their humanity, and turn into mutants themselves. An ordinary person without any special abilities and a group of abnormal little ones could be eliminated by the Federation at any time. A lack of clothing, food, and medicine is the norm. Wen Xu: Since I’m here, I’ll just take each day as it comes. Wen Xu is an agricultural scientist, so all he knows how to do is grow things. If there’s no food, he’ll grow some. If there’s no medicine, he’ll grow that, too. The oldest class hoes the fields, the middle class spreads fertilizer, and the youngest class sows the seeds. Everyone has a clear role. The children hoe the fields during the day and pedal sewing machines at night to make their own clothes. There’s always more work to do. They’re so exhausted by the end of each day that they fall asleep the moment their heads hit the pillow. No matter how unruly they are, they’re too tired to get up to anything else. And so, on the deathly land of the apocalypse, the marginalized kindergarten thrives, quietly bursting with life. * When mutants attack the safe island, its residents retreat in stages, and the Federation decides to abandon the kindergarten. After a fierce battle, the kindergarten is littered with the corpses of mutated animals, but everyone is unharmed. The officer asks Wen Xu, “Did you do this?” Still shaken, Wen Xu stammers, “N-no, the kids did it.” As it turns out, all the children have powerful abilities. One of them holds up a huge fish head and asks in a childish voice, “Teacher Wen, we can bury these and use them as fertilizer, right?” Wen Xu immediately puts away his frightened expression. Smiling, he points to a patch of empty ground and pitches his voice high. “Bury them over there. Once the soil’s nice and fertile, whoever behaves best gets to choose what we plant~” The little ones answer in unison, “Okay~” The kindergarten everyone had looked down on suddenly becomes a prized institution that everyone is eager to recruit. Theme: As long as you stay positive and optimistic, life will keep getting better.