The Best Family Opens a Restaurant in the Nineties

[Updates at 21:00] Upcoming novel: "My Little Sister Is a Chef!" Synopsis: After years working in a restaurant kitchen, Ye Cong Xi finally saves enough for a down payment on a spacious apartment. Then she opens her eyes and finds herself inside her own book. She’s a hopeless romantic, her mother is a weepy pushover, and her father has dyed his hair blond and likes to play gangster. Ye Cong Xi: …We’re doomed. No, she can’t live like this. First, she needs to earn back the money for that apartment! Later, Ye’s dad stops playing gangster and spends every day in the kitchen with a gang of flashy-haired underlings, peeling potatoes. Later, Ye’s mom stops crying all the time. She has to save her tears for when she chops onions, or her eyes will get too dry. Later still, a little alley in Pengcheng becomes famous. There’s a restaurant there that people can’t stop thinking about, one they can’t sleep without dreaming of. Some even fly back just to eat there… ○ Set in the 1990s, a lightly fictionalized setting, slice of life. ○ The female lead is the original owner of the body. There’s not much romance, but there is a male lead. He appears relatively late, and they only get together when they’re grown up. Upcoming novel: "The Entire Prince’s Residence Is Waiting for Me to Cook" Imperial chef Chu Yuan is betrayed by her family and dies. When she opens her eyes, she has arrived in a dynasty completely unfamiliar to her. The body has the same appearance and name as her own, but a completely different personality: a rebellious girl who steals money, gets into fights, and even beats her adoptive mother badly enough to land her in the hospital. She feels inexplicably guilty and uses her memories to find the hospital emergency room. Her adoptive mother has just had her wounds treated. When she sees Chu Yuan, she isn’t angry. Instead, she takes her hand and earnestly pleads, “If you need money, wait until I’ve sold today’s vegetables and I’ll give you some. Don’t borrow from those hooligans, okay?” Chu Yuan’s nose tingles. … When Chu Jia Yu was very young, her father died while away on a business trip with a friend. Her mother adopted the friend’s child, then struggled to support her own daughter through college. After graduating, she tutors part-time in the evenings and works in sales at an office building during the day, making so many calls that her throat is hoarse. She opens the Pin Hao Fan app to order the cheapest meal set. Looking up, she sees her least favorite younger sister outside the company’s floor-to-ceiling windows, carefully looking around. When she spots Chu Jia Yu, she rushes in, delighted. “Big sister, I made you braised ribs with rice and some juice!” Her younger sister looks at her with an adorably sweet expression. Theme: An ideal life. Every effort will receive an equal reward.