Outrageous! Who said my wife is vain?!

All names, places, brands, companies, and events in this story are fictional. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

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Blue Star.

China.

Beijing.

The Lin Family Villa.

Then came the sound of knocking on the door.

Standing by the window, gazing absently at the night sky, Chu Yu turned to the doorway and said, "Please come in."

The door was opened gently, and a smiling woman in her forties entered.

On the tray in her hands was a bowl of steaming soup. She said earnestly, "Young Master, Madam specially instructed me to prepare this nourishing soup for you. Drinking a bowl before bed will replenish your energy and help you sleep. I've placed it here for you..."

"Put it on the table over there, thank you Aunt Zhang." Chu Yu gestured with a slight nod of his chin.

Aunt Zhang placed the tonic soup on the table and replied with a smile, "Young Master, you're too kind. This is what I should do. Don't mention it! Please drink it while it's hot. I'll be going now."

"Okay." Chu Yu didn't say anything more.

After Aunt Zhang left, I walked to the table, sat down in a chair, picked up a spoon, and gently stirred the soup in the bowl.

Half a month has passed since Chu Yu arrived in this unfamiliar world. He has gone from being fearful and doubtful at the beginning to accepting and adapting.

In Chu Yu's original world, he was a child who was abandoned at the gate of an orphanage shortly after birth.

Fortunately, he did not encounter the heartless orphanages that were the subject of news reports about the abuse and trafficking of orphans.

The director and the teachers at the orphanage treated them all very well, and there was absolutely no abuse involved.

The orphanage operates on government funding and donations from kind-hearted individuals and businesses, but this only guarantees their most basic survival.

I've seen too many wealthy people who are all smiles and concern for orphans in front of the camera, but behind the scenes, they seem to be afraid that these orphans have some kind of infectious disease, keeping their distance and looking at them with disdain.

Chu Yu had told himself since he was a child that he must make a lot of money when he grew up, become a rich person, and be a superior person.

Not only do they want to live a good life themselves, but they also want the director and teachers of the orphanage to no longer have to worry about money, or bow and scrape and beg for donations.

Perhaps it was because he showed a different kind of "intellectualism" and "wolfishness" from other children since childhood that he was not adopted, even though he had a handsome and extremely likable face from childhood to adulthood.

Those families were afraid that they wouldn't be able to raise a child like him properly, but Chu Yu never thought about being adopted. He was born an orphan, had no one to rely on, and would never place his hopes for life on others.

After graduating from junior high school, despite his excellent grades, he did not attend high school. Instead, disregarding the advice of the dean and teachers, he chose to study culinary arts at a local public vocational school.

This is because the school not only offers significant tuition reductions for orphans, but also provides substantial financial aid and scholarships.

After Chu Yu enrolled in the orphanage, he received the highest level of scholarships and grants every year, which not only covered all his living expenses but also allowed him to donate things to the orphanage from time to time.

Perhaps it was a blessing from heaven, but he was extremely talented in the culinary field. In addition, he was hardworking and knew how to read people's expressions and understand human relationships at a young age. He was liked by his teachers at school and was also valued by the head chef during his internship.

Through his own efforts, he became the executive chef of a star-rated hotel at the age of 26, earning an annual salary of one million.

Anyone would praise him for being young and promising, but Chu Yu's desire for money goes far beyond that.

Despite his boss's repeated attempts to persuade him to stay, he started his own business and founded a catering brand with thousands of stores across the country.

After achieving financial freedom, he set his sights on the market for seasonings, semi-finished products, and ready-made meals, and returned to school to study food science and engineering, and food biotechnology.

He studied food science, food engineering, and fermentation engineering in graduate school and eventually earned a doctoral degree.

The products manufactured not only sell well in the domestic market, but are also exported to the United States, Europe, Australia, Japan and other places, and have a great influence in the international market.

His life has been full of ups and downs. He has encountered countless business battles, been shut down by online memes, and even had his fortunes ruined by corporate espionage.

He has also experienced unspeakable suppression, framing, kidnapping, and hiring of murderers. If his life story were made into a TV series, it probably wouldn't pass censorship.

Although the road to success was not easy, Chu Yu succeeded, fulfilling the vow he made as a child and becoming an industry tycoon with an eleven-figure net worth, a wealthy man in a certain sense, a superior person.

Shortly after his 52nd birthday, while traveling abroad by plane to inspect business, he encountered an extremely rare and low-probability event—a plane crash.

I don't know how I ended up in this strange world, Earth.

He awakens in the body of a twenty-five-year-old man also named "Chu Yu".

In these days, besides merging with the original owner's memories, Chu Yu also went online to learn about the history and current situation of this world.

He discovered that this world was not much different from his original world, and many important historical moments and development trends were roughly the same.

However, the development in many smaller areas is quite different, and many historical figures have been replaced by people whose names we have never heard of, as if they are related but not quite the same parallel world.

The original owner of the body, "Chu Yu," was also an "orphan," but his life was much better than Chu Yu's.

He was adopted by Chu Shengrong, a kind-hearted noodle shop owner in his fifties, when he was four years old. He was raised as his own grandson and grew up in love.

Influenced by his grandfather, Chu Shengrong has loved food since childhood. His childhood goal was to open a chain of noodle restaurants, but he felt that this industry was tiring and undignified.

"Chu Yu" is obedient and filial. He was admitted to Beihua University in the local area, majoring in food science and engineering, and thought that he could work in the research and development of a food company after graduation.

In the same year that "Chu Yu" graduated, Chu Shengrong was suddenly diagnosed with mid-stage cancer. Although he actively sought treatment, he was too old to withstand the strain and passed away three years later.

After handling Chu Shengrong's funeral arrangements, Chu Yu, who had lost his only relative, felt utterly lost about the future.

Just then, the Lin family from Beijing found him with a paternity test from an unknown source, saying that "Chu Yu" was their lost youngest son, whose real name was Lin Yize, and that they wanted to take him home.

The Lin family is considered wealthy in Beijing. Their group mainly deals in daily chemical products, and the chairman, Lin Zhenghong, is the father of "Chu Yu".

Zhao Ruoying, the mother, also came from a wealthy family. Her family's group of enterprises mainly engaged in import and export trade and chain supermarkets.

"Chu Yu" has an older brother and sister. The older brother, Lin Yiming, is the general manager of the group, and the sister-in-law, Shi Peilan, was a very popular actress. After marrying into the Lin family, she retired from acting and gave birth to a daughter and a son for Lin Yiming.

The elder sister, Lin Yiwan, serves as the group's financial director and also runs her own accounting firm. Her brother-in-law, Zhou Jingshan, serves as the group's marketing director. The couple has one son.

When they arrived in Fanglin City to pick up "Chu Yu", the entire Lin family came out, surrounding him with tears in their eyes, expressing their longing over the years.

Having just lost his closest relative, Chu Yu was feeling lost about the future. Faced with these relatives who suddenly appeared, holding paternity tests and accompanied by local police as witnesses, he had no choice but to accept their presence.

After all, this way he would still have relatives in this world, but "Chu Yu's" only request was that he not change his name.

"Chu Yu" is the name his grandfather gave him. If they don't accept it, he would rather not go back to his wealthy family and stay in Fanglin City to open a noodle shop.

Even though Lin Zhenghong and Zhao Ruoying were reluctant to find their youngest son, they still said that it was up to him and that he could keep the name if he didn't want to.