My Family Lived on Bran and Chaff, but My Food Stall Made an Entire City Famous

Xue Yinzhu transmigrates into the Xie household as a maid born into service, traveling with them into exile. When she first arrives, her original body's owner has just stolen the family's last two hundred coins.

Her own mother wants to disown her. The Xie family matriarch points at her and curses her for repaying kindness with betrayal. The young top-scoring scholar lying on the bed looks at her more coldly than he would an enemy.

Everyone says Xue Yinzhu is a lost cause.

Xue Yinzhu looks down at the two hundred coins in her hand, then up at the bran and watery vegetables in everyone's bowls.

Fine. If I'm a lost cause, so be it.

With the two hundred coins, she buys salt, Sichuan pepper, vinegar, and sugar, then fetches a bucket of spring water from the mountain behind them and tosses it with a basin of wild greens.

The next day, a small food stall opens in Luoxia Town.

Five coins for a serving of cold dressed vegetables, thirteen coins for a stick of honey-glazed bamboo-tube rice.

Everyone says it's expensive, but everyone rushes to buy it.

Later, everyone in Luoxia Town knows that the proprietress of Zhuji Eatery on West Street is surnamed Xue, and that she was once a maid sent into exile.

Later still, Xue Yinzhu buys back the Xie family's old mansion.

The people who once pointed at her and cursed her now stand in line with bowls, waiting for her to serve them.