Reborn in 1985: From a Failing Lu Cuisine Restaurant

In 1985, a late autumn rainy night. The time-honored restaurant 'Quanjufu' in Yangcheng is on the verge of bankruptcy, deep in debt. Lu Yuan, a former Michelin three-star chef with a sharp tongue who was banned to death in 2023, is reborn as a good-for-nothing prodigal son with the same name. Opening his eyes, he finds a loan shark named Scar Brother demanding payment with a knife, and a pot of spoiled pig feed boiling on the stove. At the critical moment of life and death, the 'Chinese Food God System' activates, issuing its first ridiculous task: use a cost of one yuan to make a bowl of 'Buddha Jumps Over the Wall' that will move Scar Brother to tears. Lu Yuan looks at the dried meat on the mousetrap and rotten cabbage, sneers, and uses his past life's skills to the fullest. When that bowl of beggar's version of Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, exuding the aura of a biochemical weapon, is served, Scar Brother eats it and bursts into tears. Not only does he not cut off Lu Yuan's hand, but he wants to invest and become 'President Liu'. But this is just the beginning. Lu Yuan uses the system to read diners' 'taste mood bars', specializing in curing all kinds of defiance: using 'ex-boyfriend/girlfriend breakup dinners' to reunite couples and order expensive dishes, using 'fermentation aesthetics' to fool the industry and commerce bureau, and even opening the restaurant right in front of the street office, using a bowl of 'boiled cabbage' laced with croton oil to control the efficient female director Qin Hongyu. In this life, Lu Yuan not only wants to make money but also use the human world's fireworks to heal the taste buds of an era.