The Golden Tongue

Yin Ying was born into the Yin family, a family of restaurateurs. Gifted with a golden tongue that can identify ingredients, spoilage, and even trace amounts of poison, Yin Ying was raised from childhood as the family's heir. But at eighteen, Yin Ying was branded as someone whose out-of-control ability had killed an elder, then thrown out penniless. Now scraping by on the streets with a roadside barbecue stall, Yin Ying once tasted a dish for a regular customer and detected, in the exclusive sauce of Baiweixuan, one of the country's top culinary groups, the distinctive taste of a poisonous herb from the Yin family's massacre thirty years ago. The people who seized the Yin family's business and slaughtered Yin Ying's entire family were none other than the sanctimonious old men now at the pinnacle of the restaurant industry. Just as Baiweixuan's people corner Yin Ying and make life impossible, leaving no way out, the Divine Chef Revenge System suddenly activates. It assigns Yin Ying the task of opening a first restaurant within three months. Completing it will unlock the third page of an altered ancestral cookbook. The System keeps upgrading Yin Ying's sense of taste, and can also help improve recipes, predict fluctuations in ingredient prices, and see through business traps set by rivals. This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.