The Neighborhood's Little Chef

Liu Ke transmigrates into a marital-scheming novel as the wife of a top scholar: a shrew who lives with her husband's family in a mountain village. To make ends meet, she has no choice but to go to the city to find work.

Liu Ke starts working at a restaurant, beginning with the simplest task: cooking rice. And that's all she does, since the dishes are prepared by the head chef. Liu Ke isn't worried. She can make fresh pork wontons, steamed rice cakes, shrimp dumplings, mung bean cakes, yam and beef cakes, and all sorts of other treats...

Su Xingheng has no choice but to move from the academy to the village, where he lives under the same roof as his wife, though they're practically strangers. One day, when he's in a bad mood, he suddenly catches the delicious smell of fresh pork wontons!...

And so Liu Ke becomes the restaurant's signature attraction, while her husband becomes a top scholar. Liu Ke: What the heck? The story really is following the book's plot, and Su Xingheng becomes the top scorer in the imperial examinations?

Theme: Build bigger and better, and make a glorious comeback.