Female protagonist, paired with Lia. No romantic ambiguity with other characters and no harem. Bai Ying, a former three-Michelin-star chef, transmigrates to a sword-and-magic world with nothing but a black pot, a cleaver, and a stomach so hungry it could swallow a slime. The locals eat hard rye bread with salted dried fish, treat magical herbs as poison, and roast whole wild boars over an open fire. Bai Ying falls silent for a moment, sets up her pot, and lights the fire. "This place of yours," she says, stirring the emerald-green stew, "needs to be saved."
