Herald of Steel - Chapter 1432: CookBook

It has been six years since the country stopped admitting college students, and no one knows when the college entrance examination will resume. Su Xiaoxiao, who was an outstanding student, was now humiliated after not being able to attend university.

She was too high for the people in the village and too poor for the people in the city. Due to this, she became a “leftover girl.”

An educated youth said he was willing to try. When Father Su then asked the educated youth when he planned to marry his daughter, the educated youth said it was Su Xiaoxiao who took the initiative to pester him before agreeing to give it a try, and he wanted to go back to the city in the future and did not plan to marry a country girl.

Su Xiaoxiao couldn’t take this humiliation anymore and decided to jump into the river to commit suicide. This made her reputation become even worse. The matchmakers had to go around when they passed by the Su family’s house. Mother Su and Father Su were so angry that they almost rode a crane to death. They decided to marry their daughter in the city regardless of the dowry.

Han Cheng, who had lost his wife for a year, went back to the city to visit his sons on his vacation. His two sons, who were once white and chubby cubs, became skinny and gloomy after living with his teacher’s wife. He was so angry and immediately asked the matchmaker to go to the countryside and find him a match. The only requirement he asked for was, that she must be literate.

The matchmaker went to the Su family’s house, and there, Su Xiaoxiao, who came from the 21st century, didn’t raise any objections and accepted it.

However, the unreliable matchmaker actually invited another girl besides Su Xiaoxiao and arranged their dates at the same time.

Han Cheng asked Su Xiaoxiao, who looked like a good match for him: “Are you literate? Do you mind taking care of my two sons?”

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After being bound by System 131, Xiang Kui started a journey of helping some female supporting roles to fulfill their ‘reasonable’ wishes in order to earn enough points to go back.First World: Beast world Side Characters “Just because I'm not the heroine, does that mean I deserve to die?”Xiang Kui was a native in the beast world, the pampered cousin of the tribe’s chief. Just because the strongest warrior in the tribe brought in a strange woman, it meant that she have to be worse off?Not wanting to care about the heroine, she changed the beast world with her own hand without hesitation turning what the heroine values into scraps and things better than what she could make appeared.Second World: The True and False Daughter“Just because I'm not capable enough, does it mean I don't deserve to live?”Liang Kui harboured deep resentment when she found out the truth of the world. That her world is nothing more than a story for Xiang Hao Ya and her existence was used to make Xiang Hao Ya’s life better.It should have been hers, but Xiang Hao Ya was the one who played the pitiful, cross it out, her brother was the one who set off Xiang Hao Ya as the pitiful girl whose life has been taken away by her.In that case, she want nothing of the Liang Family and the Xiang Family.She will live a life far away from them, a peaceful and comfortable life while secretly making moves in secret.Third World: The Little Princess in the ApocalypseJiang Kui was known as the pampered princess and in the world where other people become stronger, she was still the weak and willful person.Seeing that she was being used by the main leads to set themselves off and then thrown off, she decisively decided to part ways without hesitation.System: “…” no, that’s not parting ways, you directly smashed a hammer above their heads!And seeing how the supposedly revenge and action filled story turned into a sweet romance story in such unsuitable background… the system said that it gave up.Fourth World: The Ghost Story in the Magic World…Xiang Kui vs System:Xiang Kui: See, I have successfully performed my role well!System: (gave even more difficult character to perform again and again)Xiang Kui: *send blades to the system*System: (looking at the more outrageous script under Xiang Kui’s hand and fell flat on the ground, not wanting to take a look even for another second)At some other timeXiang Kui: What’s with that Jun Lin?System: *looks away*Xiang Ku: *sneer*System: (saw the weapon that Xiang Kui took out, shocked, and directly cried) Wooo, I don’t want this host! Give me a soft, pretty, and easily manageable host… ah!The author silently look away from the massacre scenes on the back and pretend not to see anything....Note: the synopsis will be updated as I write more worlds :3Join the discord to chat with the author and other readers:https://discord.gg/pBy2wGB...Other novels:-Flowers Bloom from Battlefield [complete]- Under the Veil of Night [complete]- 7 Path of the Lilies [on long hiatus]- 1 Year of Beginning [complete]- Villain Lady [complete]- Science and Fantasy [complete]- 2 Years of Restarting [complete]- The Quiet Empress [complete]- The Villain's Little Cat [complete]- Astral Flower [complete]- Villain Princess [complete]- Forgotten Legend of the Bloodied Flower [complete]- Runemaster in the Last Days [on going]- Truth and Lies Intertwined [on going]...Follow me on IG: @sora100518