[Food + Business Management + Imperial Examinations + Farming + Infrastructure Building + Character Growth + Mutual First Love]
Food blogger Lu Yan dies suddenly from a heart condition and wakes up inside a female-lead rebirth-and-rise novel.
In the original story, the heroine is the legitimate daughter of a powerful Prime Minister. Schemed against by her stepmother, she is kidnapped and sold into a remote, impoverished region. A kind middle-aged man buys her and raises her as his own daughter. Not long afterward, the heroine rescues a fallen Crown Prince. The two travel back to the capital together, where a series of romantic entanglements unfolds.
Unfortunately, Lu Yan is not the heroine.
She is merely an insignificant extra who was sold alongside her.
However, something seems to have gone slightly wrong with the plot.
Because of the heroine’s stunning beauty, the madam of a brothel spots her first and buys her away.
As a result, the kind-hearted man ends up purchasing Lu Yan instead and taking her home.
Lu Yan: ?????
Looking at her new family’s collection of elderly, weak, sick, and disabled members, Lu Yan has no choice but to pick up a wok and return to her old profession—cooking to support the household.
From that point on, the story derails completely.
The scholar son Lu Sheng, who was originally destined to die young from illness, survives.
The elderly couple, who should have succumbed to grief and depression, also remain alive and well.
Not only that, but Lu Yan starts with a humble street food stall and gradually expands her business all the way to the capital, eventually building a thriving restaurant empire.
Meanwhile, Lu Sheng becomes the youngest Third-Ranked Scholar (Tanhua) in the history of the Great Li Dynasty.
The only problem is that the little wolf cub she raised from childhood has begun harboring improper thoughts about her.
Lu Yan: “I’ve always treated you as my younger brother.”
Lu Sheng: “Who wants to be your brother? I want to be your husband.”
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