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Reborn in the 80s: The Spicy Strip Queen

share time: 2026-01-07 00:34:58

Lin Xiaoman, a modern food industry worker, died suddenly while staying up late revising a spicy strip recipe. She woke up as the 17-year-old youngest daughter of the Lin family in a 1985 rural village in western Henan—despised by her grandma as a "freeloader". The original owner jumped into a river after being scolded for stealing eggs to buy study materials, and just after surviving, she faced the crisis of being married off to an old bachelor for betrothal gifts. Using her modern memory, Lin made "Xiaoman Spicy Slices" with cornmeal and chili, selling them secretly in the county—only to be chased by market regulators for "speculation". A young man in a Zhongshan suit, Zhou Mingyuan (newly retired from the army and now the county food factory director), saved her. Meanwhile, her grandma tried to smash her spice jar, but her siblings secretly gave her pocket money: "Sis, we’ll help sell!" When her spicy slices became a hit, the old bachelor came to wreck her stall. But Zhou showed up with a contract: "She’s our factory’s R&D consultant—harming her harms our interests!" From a "superfluous girl" to a "spicy strip queen" leading her family’s business, Lin uses a bag of spicy slices to weave the warmth of the 80s and her family’s journey from division to unity.

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