Selling Vegetable Pancakes on the Road to Escape Famine in Ancient Times

After failing both the civil service and graduate school entrance exams, Song Qingli graduated straight into unemployment. Then her ex-boyfriend, who had passed the civil service exam, dumped her, and her life hit rock bottom.

With no other options, she was considering making a living by selling food from a street stall when she suddenly bound herself to the [Ancient Cuisine Sign-in System].

Each month, signing in unlocks a new snack recipe and provides an unlimited supply of ingredients for free. In return, she must transmigrate every day to a designated location in ancient times and run a stall for two hours.

From the start, she has a battered three-wheeled cart. It is a famine year in the Great Yong Dynasty, and refugees are collapsing from hunger outside the Temple of the Goddess.

Song Qingli sets up her stall. Rice soup is free, and vegetable pancakes cost ten coins each.

The refugees cry as they take out their copper coins. "The Goddess has such a kind heart... These pancakes are so delicious, and they only cost ten coins each with egg and meat. Give me two more."

She counts her coins with a grin. Ten coins? Back in the present, they'd be worth several times as much.

But who knew the System could upgrade, too?

The three-wheeler becomes a four-wheeled food truck, and then the truck becomes a permanent twenty-square-meter shop. Once the sign goes up, people from ancient times line up, waiting for the Goddess's Eatery to open.

In the end, she builds a high-end chain, with branches all over the country. Even the emperor has people order takeout for him.

While becoming a food-service tycoon in ancient times, she brings back the copper coins, jewelry, chipped porcelain, and damaged jade she collects to have them appraised in the present.

Every piece turns out to be a national treasure, and auction houses compete to pay her.

On the day her ex-boyfriend comes crawling back to ask for another chance, she is sitting in the office of her own chain's headquarters, signing contracts worth billions, without even looking up.

"You thought I was poor back then. Now you can't even afford the pancakes from my stall."