Getting Rich in the Interstellar by Selling Chinese Savory Pancakes

Ji Qiao was setting up his street stall when he inexplicably transmigrated to the Beastman Star System.After the Great War against the Insectoids, the Beastman Star System became a culinary wasteland.Ji Qiao was sick of drinking nutrient solutions and tired of dry, stale bread. He decided to revive his old business and got his savory pancake (Jiangxiang Bing) stall up and running!The neighborhood was a mixed bag, his savings were dwindling, and during a stormy, windy rainy season, he even picked up a picky-eater tiger cub who had run away from home.A difficult start didn’t matter. Ji Qiao heated up the wok, spread the batter, and a rich aroma drifted for miles—The overworked, stressed-out crowd started lining up and yelling the moment they saw him: “You good-for-nothing! What took you so long to set up shop?!”Gentle parents would drop their cubs off at kindergarten, then immediately sprint a hundred meters toward the pancake stall: “First come, first served! Cut the line and face the music!”The picky-eater young master tiger cub instantly got sparkly eyes, becoming an instant fanatic of the “Pancake Faction”: “Qiao Qiao’s Savory Pancakes—if you don’t eat it, you’ve got no taste!”Ji Qiao diligently worked, taking the center stage of the food street. Soon enough, he was eyed as an easy target for protection money.Fortunately, the tiger cub’s identity wasn’t simple. To ensure the prosperity of the Pancake Faction, Ji Qiao and the cub hit it off, conspiring for a brilliant plan.They started using vague language and all sorts of hints and suggestions, seizing every chance to show that they had an unusually close relationship with a certain tiger-form noble in District A!In an instant, an explosive piece of gossip swept through all the districts. Eating a pancake while listening to the latest tea became the perfect combo.The savory pancake stall’s fame soared, and business reached a new height, becoming a must-visit landmark for beastmen!In the bustling District A of the main star, a certain tiger-form noble gently swirled a stemmed glass, standing primly by the floor-to-ceiling window, inquiring about his little nephew.The butler, dressed in a tailcoat, respectfully reported: “The young master has been missing for a month.”Mayfield: “Has he learned his lesson?”Butler: “No. He found himself a ‘Little Aunt-in-Law,’ and the whole tiger has been fed a round of baby fat.”Mayfield: “???”—Mayfield prided himself on being the respectable, morally upright nobleman of the Plankett family.However, after his little nephew ran away, strange rumors about him flooded the nobles’ social circles—– He refused to attend social balls because he already had someone in his heart.– He sent bodyguards to watch over the runaway cub because he couldn’t forget an old flame.– He bought up an abandoned mining area to start a business as an excuse to pursue his wife.Mayfield was both angry and amused. He stormed off, intending to confront the source, only to find the rumormonger was the human youth who had taken in his little nephew.One second, he was doubting if his subordinates had conducted a shoddy investigation; the next, the seemingly clean-cut, innocent-looking “honest man” faced the hoodlums demanding protection money and opened his mouth:“He knows we people from Planet Lianshui love farming, so he specially contracted a whole field to show me the romance of wind blowing through the wheat!”“He loves me so crazily that if I look at anyone else, he gets red-eyed and pins me against the wall for a kiss!”“He doesn’t care about any of my flaws, he forces me to stay by his side, and it absolutely doesn’t matter if I can’t have children!”The hoodlums were shocked, the onlookers listened intently, and Mayfield wanted to yell that this was insane!Ji Qiao earned a massive profit and deeply felt the benefit of ‘borrowing the tiger’s might’ (fox-pretending-to-be-tiger). He gave the tiger cub’s soft belly a smooch and thought, the charm of leveraging powerful connections is truly intoxicating!Little did he know, he had already been locked in as the number one target for an autumn reckoning.When the victim of the rumors showed up and pinned him down on the bed—Ji Qiao innocently asked: “Hello, who are you?”Mayfield sneered: “My dearest love, have you forgotten? I’m your long-lost, soon-to-be fiancé.”