I Transmigrated to the Tang Dynasty to Become a Private Chef

[My other novel, Raising a Family as a Stepmother in the Fifties [Book Transmigration], is now underway. Please add it to your collection!]

Blurb:

The warmth of everyday life is what soothes the human heart.

This is a slow-paced historical transmigration food story, full of the warmth of everyday life.

After transmigrating to the Tang dynasty, other people's cooking skills are a golden finger: they open restaurants, make a fortune, and live the good life.

For Tong Bai, her cooking skills are a means of survival.

She shows off her skills to get a full meal, only to have her identity exposed by the original owner's mother. She carries a basket around selling snacks, only to be reported by someone with an agenda and forced to give it up.

Despite having food knowledge from a later age, she can only start at the bottom, as a temporary kitchen worker.

But she refuses to accept her fate!

The aroma of cracklings stuffed in buns fills the poor alleys. Soup dumplings win over aristocratic families. Oden warms the marketplace, and spicy hot pot dazzles the powerful...

From temporary kitchen worker to employee of an aristocratic household, then to the most sought-after private chef in Chang'an,

she uses one improved snack after another to bring the warmth of everyday life to Chang'an in the early Tang dynasty and carve out a smooth path to success!

And amid the smoke and steam, she meets the person who has been silently protecting her.

A few things to know before reading:

1. One-on-one romance with a happy ending. The female lead focuses on food and changing her fate. The story is mainly about her career, while the romance develops slowly with plenty of push and pull.

2. Set in an alternate early Tang dynasty. No overpowered golden finger. A good fit for readers who enjoy watching a female lead work hard and build her way to success.

Raising a Family as a Stepmother in the Fifties [Book Transmigration]

Blurb: Wen Ya transmigrates into a novel set in the 1950s as the delicate young heiress of a wealthy family, abandoned by her relatives, deceived by a scumbag who takes her innocence, heart, and fortune, and doomed to die tragically.

The good news: She knows the plot and can change her fate.

The bad news: She's the wealthy man's illegitimate daughter, a cannon-fodder character known only through other people's gossip, with just a few dozen words in the book.

To survive, she sets her sights on Gong Bai, the tough guy in the book's reconnaissance battalion.

Tall with long legs, a prominent nose and a firm backside, he's exactly her type.

Of course, most importantly, he's from a politically impeccable background and can protect her.

In the book, he's lost on the battlefield. The two children he adopted are left to depend on others, and when they grow up, they become obstacles to the male and female leads' romance and careers. They're cannon-fodder villains doomed to die.

Looking at the future villains, now a socially bold little one and a socially anxious little one, she hands Gong Bai a prenuptial agreement:

"I'll look after them, and you give me a place to live. We owe each other nothing. Deal?"

After the wedding, Gong Bai heads off to the battlefield. Everyone laughs at Wen Ya, saying being a stepmother is no easy job.

Wen Ya takes her two little troublemakers far away to Hunan Province. At the state-run department store, she starts a two-pronged campaign: "raising kids and boosting profits"!

The little troublemakers become her devoted protectors, and the delicate heiress becomes a capable manager at the department store.

Only the fires of war in the north remain a knot in Wen Ya's heart.

When Gong Bai appears before her, alive and covered in wounds,

"I'm here to keep my promise."

Wen Ya freezes, her eyelashes trembling. "What?"

"To protect you for the rest of your life."

Theme: Keep striving even when faced with adversity