Transmigrated to the 80s: My Life as a Cannon Fodder Side Character

Lin Xi was a 21st-century Michelin-starred chef at the top of her game until a kitchen explosion sent her back to 1983. She wakes up as the "ugly duckling" of the Lin family, dressed in a tattered wedding coat and being sold to a village widower to pay for her cousin’s university tuition. In the original novel, she was the disposable cannon fodder who died in the snow. In this life? She’s the one holding the cleaver. Armed with a "Taste Memory" and modern marketing strategies, Lin Xi escapes the village and hitches a ride with the coldest man in the Northern Command Commander Gu Shaozheng. While the world thinks she’s a ruined runaway, Lin Xi is busy: Turning a "cursed" alleyway into the Capital’s top restaurant. Bottling her "Secret Sauce" to monopolize the state-run grocery stores. Stripping the "Golden Phoenix" cousin of her fake reputation. As her business empire grows from a bicycle cart to a national conglomerate, the cold-blooded Commander who once told her to "stay out of the way" is suddenly found every night at her kitchen door. "Commander, the restaurant is closed." Gu Shaozheng locks the door and pulls her into his arms. "I’m not here as a customer, Xi'er. I’m here to collect the interest on that first ride." Update: 2 chapters per week Join my discord server https://discord.gg/5uhRNcyuZ