I Became a Food Blogger in the 1990s

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Food blogger Gong Wenyu accidentally transmigrated to a remote village in the 1990s, becoming the youngest daughter of the impoverished Gong family, who happened to have the same name.

The Gong family wasn't poor because they were lazy and liked to eat. They were simply terribly unlucky.

The Gong family had a son and a daughter. The eldest son was bad at studying and unwilling to do farm work at home, insisting on going to the provincial capital with someone to do business. A year later, he came home penniless with a baby boy, then vanished without a trace. No one knew whether he was alive or dead.

The mother was in poor health from overwork. To pay for the grandson's and youngest daughter's education, the father spent all the family's savings to get a job digging coal at a mine through a connection. But just half a month after arriving at the mine, he had an accident, leaving three women and children to struggle through life in the countryside.

When Gong Wenyu arrived, her father had just been buried. Looking at the utterly destitute home, her mother, heartbroken with grief, and her little nephew, secretly wiping away tears, Gong Wenyu felt that fate was unfair and life cruel. She quietly resolved to help her new family live better.

Making money in a remote village was hard. Fortunately, she had somehow transmigrated into this body with a golden finger: a System that could livestream across time and space to modern people. That made things easy!

Then she'd return to her old line of work, roll up her sleeves, and get cracking, showing modern people living in a jungle of steel and concrete the authentic country cooking of the 1990s.

The Rustic Country Cook

After a night of heavy drinking at a business dinner, Lan Jiameng returned to the day of her university graduation.

After attending the graduation ceremony, she made a decision that left everyone around her stunned: she gave up a job in a major city and returned to her rural hometown to start a business.

With no connections and a knack for bad luck, she'd spent ten years struggling in a major city in her previous life and had ended up with nothing, living a miserable life. Given another chance, she would do what she loved and make her family's cooking skills known far and wide.

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Yi Xiaoyang, who lived next door to the Lan family, was the village's first graduate of a prestigious university. Yet after graduating, he gave up a high-paying job and returned to the village to work as a village official.

Everyone in the village said he and Lan Jiameng had wasted their education: after all that studying, they'd still ended up back in the village...

Yi Xiaoyang didn't care about the gossip. Just thinking of Lan Jiameng staying in the village, too, made his heart feel as if it had been spread with honey.

He would always remember the day he lost a loved one many years ago. Lan Jiameng gave him a packet of malt candy, saying she'd made it herself and that eating it would make his heart feel less bitter.

It was the sweetest, most fragrant candy he'd ever tasted, and he would never forget it for the rest of his life.

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