Dongsheng has a most unusual restaurant, run by its proprietress, Gu Xiaoxiao.
Gu Xiaoxiao has three defining traits:
She loves cooking, money, and sleep.
Gu Xiaoxiao has three favorite pastimes:
She loves good food, counting money, and handsome men.
Gu Xiaoxiao has three kinds of courage:
She dares to love, dares to hate, and dares to pick fights over the slightest thing.
Gu Xiaoxiao has three signature skills:
Steaming, braising, and stir-frying.
Gu Xiaoxiao is also a woman with none of the usual advantages:
No status, no power, and no beauty.
She also has three less-than-admirable traits:
She always gets even, and every word she says cuts to the bone.
Whenever she has money, she counts it, and she's a shameless swindler.
She says whatever is on her mind, with a dark heart and a knife hidden away.
But business at her hotel is booming.
Her cooking is superb.
Her knife skills are dazzling.
Her technique is polished and impressive.
Her methods are unconventional.
Her temper is fiery.
What about Gu Xiaoxiao's love life?
There are plenty of princes, but only one good-for-nothing, and the emperor mismatches the couple.
There are plenty of schemes, but Gu Xiaoxiao protects the good-for-nothing at every turn.
There are plenty of tricks…
This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.
