The Little Eatery Outside the High School [Gourmet]

[A cast of high school food lovers + delicious food to enjoy with your meal + everyday child-rearing + a light, healing story]

My next novel will be The Ultimate Food Spirit Root, but I Have to Work in a Book. I'm working hard on the draft, so please add it to your collection! Blurb below.

Yu Miaoyin transmigrated into a book.

The original owner was a poor girl. Her parents died young, and she had struggled on her own since childhood. But her aunt had left her a shut-down restaurant opposite a high school. She also had a younger sister, and the two relied on each other.

Her sister was still young and needed to go to school.

To earn money for her sister's education, Yu Miaoyin decided to reopen the restaurant.

After fixing the place up, Yu Miaoyin got down to business.

The restaurant wasn't big, but the students loved it, and so did the teachers.

When summer got too hot, they could come by for a bowl of Yu's sweet mung bean soup or an ice pop. Sweet and icy, it was delicious.

When winter got too cold, they could have a piping-hot roasted sweet potato or a bowl of tangyuan. Eat it while it's hot, and warmth would spread from head to toe.

Yu's little restaurant served all kinds of food: noodles with minced meat, sweet-and-sour ribs, kiln-roasted chicken, clay-pot rice, cold noodles and liangpi, as well as all sorts of buns and snacks, including soup dumplings, xiaolongbao, shaomai, water chestnut cake, snow skin pastries, mochi, and double-skin milk pudding...

There were seasonal specials, too. The weather had just changed and all the kids were sniffling and feeling under the weather, so how about a bowl of pear simmered with rock sugar? In spring, bamboo shoots grew so fresh and tender, so she'd make the kids a pot of salted pork soup with fresh bamboo shoots. One bite was so savory it would make your eyebrows fall off!

Not only was the food at Yu's little restaurant delicious, the prices were reasonable too.

Before long, it became the favorite restaurant of countless high school students, the one they held dear, a ray of light in the dreary life of high school!

Fragrant food could heal the kids who had done badly on their practice exams.

After a meal at Yu's, the kids worn out from studying felt full of energy again.

It was a healing everyday story about a bunch of exhausted students waiting for class to end so they could head to Yu's for something delicious.

--- A little scene ---

After the college entrance exams, a group of high school students clung to each other and cried, saying they didn't want to graduate.

The school leaders and teachers were deeply moved. At last, these kids had realized how wonderful their school was.

The students sobbed for a long time, then one shouted, "I don't want to graduate! I'll miss Yu's little restaurant by the school gates!"

School leaders and teachers: ...

Blurb written on April 7, 2025.

--- Please add my next novel to your collection! ---

[A cast of diners from different worlds + eating and drinking to their hearts' content]

Wen Shuling, a food blogger, was bound by an evil System to the Ultimate Food Spirit Root. To return to the real world, she had to keep transmigrating into books, changing locations to work, and earn enough affection through her cooking.

Wen Shuling shut her eyes: I'm not doing it. Find someone else.

But when she opened them again, the System had kicked her straight into her first workplace.

Wen Shuling: ...

[An elite bilingual kindergarten]

It was as if this place had gathered the world's pickiest toddlers. The teachers looked at them with pained expressions. Just how fussy were these little princes and princesses?

The parents were discussing changing kindergartens, saying this one was making their precious children thinner and thinner!

But after Wen Shuling arrived, every child's appetite suddenly improved. They ate until they were chubby, and begged to go to school every day. Even the parents wanted to go back to kindergarten. Some even wanted to pay to work odd jobs there, just so they could eat the staff meals.

Everyone chased after Wen Shuling. "Chef Wen, we'll pay you a hundred thousand a month. Will you come cook for our family?"

Others chimed in, "I'll pay a hundred and fifty thousand! I'll pay two hundred thousand..."

[The Imperial Palace's Imperial Kitchen]

A eunuch trembled as he carried a plate smashed into pieces out of the Hall of Mental Cultivation. The imperial cooks knelt outside the palace, banging their heads on the ground. "May Your Majesty calm his anger..."

Wen Shuling swallowed and asked, "Will I be beheaded if I mess up?"

System: Yes. The emperor in this book loves his empire, but he loves good food even more...

But unexpectedly, the emperor, who had been irritable because he couldn't get anything tasty to eat, beamed after trying her crab roe tofu. He was even less stern during court audiences and became good at listening to advice. From then on, the country was stable and the people lived in peace.

The imperial consorts stopped competing for the emperor's favor, too. They didn't care whose name he called that day. They only wanted to know what was for dinner!

For the nth time, the emperor brought Wen Shuling's date-paste pastries to invite a certain poet to become an official. The poet didn't want to enter government service, lived among mountains and rivers, but loved good food.

The emperor: As long as you agree to serve as an official, I'll give you whatever you want.

After tasting the date-paste pastries Wen Shuling had made, the poet said, "I want Chef Wen!"

[The Number One Animal City in the Universe]

Over tens of thousands of years, animals evolved into more advanced forms and came to live in the same city as humans. Unfortunately, most animals didn't like these two-legged creatures, so animals and humans generally kept to themselves.

But ever since Wen Shuling opened a little restaurant in Animal City...

To get a hot meal, a fearsome Northeast tiger rolled around on the ground and acted cute! Lions, leopards, and polar bears were even willing to fight over it.

One day, the headline on Animal City's front page read: Shock! The meal that made countless furry animals fight over it!

Netizens:

[!!! I'm afraid to even get close to a Northeast tiger, but the owner dares to pet it!!]

[Why are these majestic, murderous animals acting cute for the owner? Is it just because her food tastes good?!]

[This is the first time I've thought a leopard was so cute, like a kitten... Okay, only when it's acting spoiled and cute for the owner. It's still so fierce and scary with us!]

Wen Shuling: Who says these animals are scary? They're obviously adorable. When they eat something tasty, they rub their heads against my palm.

Later, Wen Shuling also transmigrated to an interstellar era where people survived on nutrient solutions because supplies were scarce, a wuxia world of grudges and vendettas, a bizarre world of magic...

It's basically the story of a heroine who thrives on delicious food no matter which story world she transmigrates into, winning everyone over.

--- Author's Disclaimer ---

1. There are many original settings.

2. The author has created a system of logic for the story.

Blurb written on April 30, 2025.

Theme: Eat well and grow strong.