After the female supporting character in the quick transmigration series realized her mistakes

(This chapter mostly consists of mundane tasks like cooking; you can skip it if you don't like it. However, it does explain the male protagonist's marital status.)

Yao Ning was planning what to do that evening. Right now, the dishes, chopsticks, and seasonings at home were not all available, so she had to go to the supermarket.

She picked up her pen again and quickly wrote down the menu for the evening. For three people, four dishes and a soup should be enough.

After packing, I picked up my bag and went to the supermarket. There are two large supermarkets nearby, so it's convenient to go there.

While Yao Ning was busy preparing for the evening's guests, the guests being entertained were also busy.

As the top official of the new city, Yan Zhiming has a lot of work to do every day. He needs to attend various meetings and coordinate the work of different departments and personnel to ensure that all tasks can be carried out smoothly.

When he saw Yao Ning's text message, he didn't care too much about what happened yesterday. He had helped many people, and not everyone was qualified to invite him to dinner. Some people tried to pull strings to invite him, but even that couldn't get him, the main character, to show up.

As for why he gave his private number to that girl, he didn't think about it deeply at the time; he just did it on a whim.

Of course, how much he thought about it wasn't important; what mattered was that he was willing. At the time, he didn't want to lose contact with her and didn't want to have nothing to do with her again in the future.

When he got off work in the evening and had some free time to think about it more deeply, he realized that he had made a general decision about promising to take the girl out to dinner. It was just that he had made the common mistake of most men: he saw that the girl was beautiful and that she was exactly what he wanted, so he wanted to possess her.

However, we cannot be impatient for quick results; we must take it one step at a time and proceed slowly.

He could be considered a cold-hearted person. His gentle and easygoing demeanor was only on the surface. He was only passionate about his career and poured all his energy and attention into it. He even met his wife through a blind date.

His wife's name was Ji Qiuyun. Her family was very wealthy in the county town. The elders wanted to arrange a marriage between her and someone in power, so they chose Yan Zhiming. The two were considered a good match. After the blind date, he didn't have time to cultivate feelings for her; he just felt they were compatible and got married.

At that time, he was still working in the county town, so he had plenty of time and went home frequently. He and his wife treated each other with respect and their relationship was relatively smooth.

He then rose through the ranks, and when he was transferred to work in the city, he already had a family compound, so he thought of bringing his wife and daughter to live with him so that the family would not have to be separated.

To everyone's surprise, his wife said that the child had already enrolled in school in the county town and was familiar with the school and classmates. If they were to transfer schools, the child might not be able to adapt to the studies, so they could only wait for the time being.

Because of this delay, she was unable to go to the city.

So his wife and daughter stayed in the county town to accompany his parents. The two were separated for four or five years. Even though they were not far apart, due to various coincidences, they could hardly see each other more than a few times a year.

It wasn't until Yan Zhiming had some free time and returned to visit his daughter that he happened to see his wife walking out of a hotel with a man.

It was only after investigation that they learned that Ji Qiuyun had a boyfriend she was in love with before her marriage, but the boyfriend came from a poor family.

Therefore, her parents strongly opposed the marriage and threatened her, saying that if she really wanted to marry her boyfriend, her family would never help her in the future, and she had to be prepared to suffer if she wanted to marry him. Ji Qiuyun was unwilling to suffer, but she also wanted to be with her boyfriend. After various struggles, she finally got to know him.

Finally, with no other choice, she could only go on a blind date with Yan Zhiming. After marriage, she wanted to live a quiet and obedient life. After all, Yan Zhiming was handsome and powerful, and being an official's wife would be very prestigious.

Unfortunately, the couple spent little time together afterward, and Ji Qiuyun reunited with her first love. At a time when Ji Qiuyun was feeling lonely, the two of them became entangled like dry tinder and a raging fire.

Later, Yan Zhiming confronted her directly, revealing that Ji Qiuyun was unwilling to divorce and had to use the child as a shield. However, when Yan's mother found out, she scoffed at her, saying that if she didn't divorce, she would confront Ji Qiuyun's family.

Ultimately, with no other option, she set a condition: the divorce could only be conducted privately, and the children must never know about it; the house they now live in belongs to her.

Yan Zhiming was at the peak of his career, and if things fell apart, divorce would be a complicated process. A quiet divorce wouldn't affect him much, so apart from his superiors, very few people knew about the divorce.

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Yao Ning waited until noon to buy all the necessary items. Actually, she didn't buy too many things, as she already had all of these items at home, but the quantity was insufficient, so she had to go and buy more.

She bought four plates, two large soup bowls, a vegetable washing basin, ten kilograms of rice, and various seasonings.

When Yao Ning returned, she washed and dried them, then put them back in their places, tidying up the kitchen again until it looked spotless.

After resting for a while, at three o'clock in the afternoon, she picked up the menu she had written and went to the market to buy groceries.

Yao Ning is very familiar with this market. She knows exactly which vendor has fresh meat at reasonable prices and which vendor has juicy vegetables.

She first went to buy pork belly to make braised pork, and then bought spare ribs to make winter melon and spare rib soup. When she passed by the fruit section, she also picked out a few bright red apples and purple bayberries. Buying too many would spoil if she couldn't finish them.

Next, she went to the vegetable section and headed straight for the small stalls. The vegetables there were much fresher. She walked around and bought chili peppers, scallions, ginger, garlic, small potatoes, and also some chopped winter melon.

There was also a dish of garlic-flavored bok choy, so I rushed off to buy more bok choy. After finishing all my shopping, I headed to the seafood section to pick out some prawns.

All sorts of ingredients had been bought, and there was quite a lot of them. When Yao Ning got home, her hands were red from being tied up.

After a short rest, we began to prepare for the preliminary work.

First, simmer the pork ribs and winter melon soup. After washing the pork ribs, blanch them in boiling water, then rinse them again. Heat the pot, add oil, and sauté ginger and scallions until fragrant. Add the blanched pork ribs to the pot, along with cooking wine, water, a little sugar, and chicken bouillon. Simmer for 30 minutes, then remove the ginger, scallions, and other seasonings. Add the winter melon and continue simmering for another 20 minutes. Gently turn the winter melon and pork ribs, sprinkle with salt, and simmer for five minutes.

To make braised pork belly, cut the pork belly into cubes, put it in a pot of cold water and blanch it with scallions and ginger. After the water boils, skim off the foam. Then, caramelize the sugar until it turns a caramel color. Add the blanched pork belly, along with scallions, ginger, dried chili peppers, cinnamon, bay leaves, and star anise. Turn the heat to medium and stir-fry for a while until the pork belly releases its oil. Then, add a little oyster sauce, boiling water, a little ground Sichuan peppercorns, salt, and white wine. Simmer slowly for 40 minutes, or until the liquid has reduced.

After deveining and peeling the prawns, marinate them with seasonings such as scallions, ginger, cooking wine, and pepper. When the time is almost up, fry them in starch until golden brown. This way, they are convenient and clean to eat without having to peel the prawns with your hands.

Wash the small potatoes and steam them in a pot until cooked. Then gently flatten them, fry them in oil until golden brown, and then stir-fry them with chili peppers until fragrant.

For garlic-flavored bok choy, heat oil in a pan, blanch the bok choy and remove it from the water. Once the oil is hot, sauté minced garlic and chili until fragrant, then add the bok choy and stir-fry a few times. Just before serving, add salt, MSG, and oyster sauce.

By six o'clock, all the dishes were ready.

Yao Ning put a lot of thought into this meal. It consisted of four dishes and a soup, including meat, soup, vegetables, and seafood. The nutritional balance was excellent, and the food looked and smelled delicious. This was probably the only time she had ever put so much effort into cooking.