The Little Chef Comes to the 1990S, and All of Beijing Craves Her Cooking

Food + transmigration from ancient times to the modern era + fake and real heiresses + top student + feel-good fiction Sun Rulan was a palace food official who transmigrated into the body of a real heiress in the modern world. Just as her birth parents found her and were about to take her home, Sun Rulan received fragments of the original owner’s short life. She learned that after returning, the original owner would be rejected by her birth parents, lose to the fake heiress in a rivalry, devote herself to a man and neglect her studies, waste her life, and eventually die miserably on the streets. Sun Rulan couldn’t understand the original owner. She only wanted to study hard and improve herself. She asked her birth parents for household registration in the capital, then chose to stay with her adoptive parents, care for her sick mother, revive their restaurant, pay off their debts, and study hard for the college entrance exams. But even when she went out of her way to avoid trouble, trouble kept finding her. Driven by fear and jealousy, the fake heiress constantly targeted her and picked fights. Time and again, she turned the tables and gave the fake heiress a thorough face-slapping. The family’s little restaurant, which had barely been scraping by, also thrived thanks to her superb cooking. Sun Rulan became deskmates with the school bully, Sheng Yi. Her positive outlook and clear-eyed philosophy on life influenced him, helping him emerge from the darkness and face his life anew. Sun Rulan was also often bullied, and the two found solace in each other through their difficult days...