The Tycoon Falls for the Queen of Ready-Made Meals

In her previous life, her husband ran off with their last penny, and her children scattered to the winds. Overcome with rage and grief, she collapsed beside the stove. When she opened her eyes again, she was back in the maternity ward in the year 2000. She was twenty, had just given birth, and had eighty-seven yuan in her pocket. This time, she was done pretending. She demanded a divorce on the spot, forced him to sign the papers within three days, and left with nothing but her two children. She dropped her old name and became Shen Xiaoning. Armed with nothing but a receipt from the local police station, she went out and signed her first supply contract. She started out in an abandoned storefront in an urban village, making prepared ingredients by hand. When a rainstorm soaked a whole batch of goods, she ate them herself. At four in the morning, she hauled vegetables until she had built a second supply chain. When competitors copied her menu, she switched to "a different menu every day of the week." When her ingredients ran out, she built her own cold-chain network. When people called her an old woman, she opened a factory and livestreamed the entire process without a single cut, turning the smear campaign into a discussion of industry standards. Later, the twenty-one-year-old heir to the Zhang family showed up at her door with an acquisition contract. She rejected him three times, and he pursued her three times. He didn't send flowers or money. He stood up to distributors for her and shouldered the strain of the supply chain, openly favoring a woman twenty years older than him. On the day the whole internet waited for her to fail, she stood at an industry summit. Beside her was her young lover, and in the audience sat her accomplished children. Somebody called her the "Queen of Prepared Meals." The first thing she said was, "My name is Shen Xiaoning. Xia is the 'dawn' in the sun-and-day character, and Ning means peace. Please get it right." The whole room burst into applause. It wasn't for her products. It was for those three characters.