The Peerless Chef of the City

The restaurant was on the verge of bankruptcy. Her husband lay in the hospital, with bills piling up one after another. The landlord blocked the door, saying that if the rent wasn't paid today, the locks would be changed tomorrow. Gu Yan Chanjue felt that fate had packed all the misfortunes into this one month for her. Late at night, she cleaned up the kitchen and dumped the accumulated kitchen waste into the bin at the alley entrance. A faint glow emanated from the bottom of the bin. The leftover food she casually discarded had, in the microscopic world invisible to humans, nurtured a civilization on the brink of extinction. The messenger from the micro-world told her: You are our 'God'. In return, she gained an ability that could change her destiny—every day, she could freely traverse between the modern city, the thousand-year-old Song Dynasty, and the mysterious microbial world. Time in reality froze, and the time she spent in other worlds did not consume a single second of her present life. In Bianjing of the Song Dynasty, she traded a pack of modern MSG for a top-grade thousand-year-old wild ginseng, solving the urgent need for medical expenses. Deep in the micro-world, she used an ordinary egg fried rice to obtain advanced technology for molecular-level ingredient optimization. Back in the modern world, her street-side eatery gradually became a holy land that foodies flocked to. However, the system upgrades became slower in the later stages, and the 'time' in each world was racing against her. A woman's rise began with a plate of egg fried rice. — Description from novelcodex.org