Title: The Villainess Female Supporting Character Raising Her Bun
Translator: Fringe Capybara
Chapter 24 - “Where’s Daddy?” “Your Daddy has flown away.” (2)
“Then I don’t want to grow up.” XingXing stood on his tippy toes and planted a kiss on Cheng Huan’s cheek and said, “I want to always sleep with mommy.”
Cheng Huan smiled. She didn’t laugh at his kids’ words. She had already decided that he would be sleeping by himself when he started grade school.
Except that this apartment wouldn’t be big enough. Cheng Huan looked around the place and set a goal for herself: to earn the down payment for a three-bedroom place within three years.
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Now that they have finished moving, it was time to start thinking about how to make money.
If her goal was to save up enough for down payment in three years’ time, she wouldn’t be able to achieve that by just having a job. In addition, the original owner was a college dropout. With just a high school diploma, she wouldn’t be able to get too good of a job.
But that’s alright, Cheng Huan wasn’t planning on getting a job anyway.
In her original world, Cheng Huan was the second child. As her parents were very fixated on having a boy, they sent her to her grandpa immediately after she was born.
Grandpa’s ancestor had worked as royal chef before. When the revolution broke up, they escaped from the palace, picked up rifles, and went onto another sort of business.
Even though they had joined the forces in liberating China, they never lost their skills as chefs. When it came to her grandpa’s generation, as much as he was no longer as glorified as his ancestors were, he was still the chef that everybody wanted to hire when it came to weddings or funerals.
Grandpa was old and had always wanted to have a successor. He was very open-minded and had no problem with passing his skills onto a girl. Cheng Huan picked up the kitchen knife at 3 and could independently cook for an entire banquet by the age of 14.
The grandpa and granddaughter duo didn’t have much money, and grandpa didn’t have the best of health and got sick quite often. Cheng Huan started making money when she was just in junior high school. She didn’t have many options. She would get up early in the morning and start steaming rice, then she’d bring rice balls with her and sell them in front of the school. She was able to make some $30 a day, more than enough to pay for their regular expenses with a little bit leftover.
As her food was very tasty, Cheng Huan’s business had always been good. By the time she graduated senior high school, she had already saved up enough for her first year of college tuition and expenses.
When all her college schoolmates were focused on dating and playing games, all Cheng Huan ever thought about was how to make money. She rented a little storefront next to the university, hired two helpers, and made a little over $1M over the course of four years while she was attending college.
While all her other schoolmates were busy with job-hunting or research, Cheng Huan took the money that she had saved up, rented a courtyard in an old neighborhood and ran a private home cuisine out of there.
Cheng Huan was very talented when it came to cooking, plus with the skills passed down onto her, her private home cuisine had gained quite a bit of popularity within the first year. With her income from the private house cuisine, she was able to save up enough to buy her own house within just a few years.
Unfortunately, just when her new house had finished with its remodeling and before she was even able to move into it, she ended up over here for whatever reasons.
Cheng Huan was never close with the rest of her family and her grandpa passed away during her second year of college. She had no ties whatsoever, so coming to a new place didn’t affect her too much.
What she needed to do now was just to repeat what she had done before one more time.