I’ll Cook to Support You [Gourmet]

A cozy, everyday farming story about cooking, eating, and falling in love

Dai Qian'en started cooking at the age of seven, standing on a stool to reach the stove. With exceptional talent and hard work, he was named a Master Chef of China at twenty-five.

But before he could even savor the honor, he died in a car accident and transmigrated into the body of Dai Qian'en, a young layabout.

The layabout came with two kids: his late brother and sister-in-law's orphaned children. The girl was fourteen and in her rebellious phase; the boy was eight and a handful. The three of them lived on the compensation their parents had received for dying in a workplace accident.

The girl wore ripped jeans, had her ears pierced, and was dating a bad boy who smoked, got into fights, did poorly in school, and was obsessed with emo culture.

Dai Qian'en looked at the boy, who stood a barely 170 centimeters tall with his emo hairstyle, then bought fifty copies of a hit school romance novel from a popular online fiction site and tossed them to the older kid.

Dai Qian'en told her, "A girl like you deserves a boyfriend who's at least as good as a romance novel's male lead."

With his showering her with praise, the older kid gradually got her life back on track.

The younger kid secretly took the crispy fried pork he'd made to school and sold it for one yuan a piece, until his homeroom teacher caught him.

Dai Qian'en 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 Qian'en asked the younger kid, "Did the crispy pork sell well?"

The kid pulled a big pile of colorful banknotes from his backpack.

That gave Dai Qian'en a new idea.

He should open a shop.

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At first, Dai Qian'en only wanted to open a little shop selling crispy fried pork.

Then the kids told him his cooking was delicious,

so he opened a small eatery.

Then the neighbors said his Sichuan food was authentic,

so he opened a Sichuan restaurant.

Then his customers asked him to open another branch,

so he did.

Dai Qian'en took their advice. He opened more and more branches, and business kept getting better.

Dai Qian'en started to panic. He knew how to cook, but he didn't know how to manage a business.

The younger kid's handsome homeroom teacher volunteered to help him run things.

To his surprise, the business did so well it was ready to go public.

Dai Qian'en offered him a generous annual salary.

The teacher turned it down, nudged his glasses, and said, "I'm easy to take care of. Just feed me."

Dai Qian'en readily agreed. "Sure. I'll cook for you."

Only later did Dai Qian'en learn that his young homeroom teacher was the heir to a multinational conglomerate.

And apparently, when he said he only wanted to be fed, he meant a whole lot more than that...

Coming soon: I Can See Ghosts. Please add it to your favorites.

Cheng Che took a fall and gained the ability to see ghosts.

Ghosts began appearing in the storeroom of his convenience store.

Then a handsome man showed up.

The man said all the ghosts had unfinished business, and that if Cheng Che could help one find peace, another 5,000 yuan would be deposited in his bank account.

The first ghost Cheng Che saw was a little kid.

The child wanted the teddy bear he'd always slept with.

Cheng Che persuaded the child's family to burn the teddy bear as an offering.

Sure enough, his bank account gained 5,000 yuan.

The handsome man became his Mr. Snail, taking care of his daily needs and helping him grow his convenience store into a thriving business.

The handsome man could even do magic. With a wave of his hand, the products in a cardboard box would fly onto the shelves by themselves.

Cheng Che figured the job didn't sound too difficult, so he took it.

And so Cheng Che met:

An old man who secretly pulled out his own IV while carrying his child on his back.

A mother who wanted to know if her child had passed the high school entrance exams.

A programmer who collapsed at his desk, still thinking about buying a gold bracelet for his girlfriend.

A migrant worker worried that he still had a thousand yuan left to pay back...

And of course, there were also:

A young man who sold a kidney to buy a phone.

An employer who withheld wages.

A girl who dieted until she became anorexic...

The harder the case, the more money he earned.

Later, Cheng Che wanted to quit and spend the rest of his life with the handsome man.

The man said, "You have to earn a hundred million before I can live."

Cheng Che: "?"

He had so much energy last night, and he's a ghost too? What kind of nonsense is this? I don't believe you!

Fine, be a ghost if you must, but why claim you can turn invisible?

Probably a story about a whole cast of people, both living and dead, finding love that transcends death?

Theme: As long as you stay positive and optimistic, life will keep getting better.