[Farming and business + lighthearted, no angst + almost no romance + slow burn + satisfying wish fulfillment + clever heroine + adorable children + cooking + medicine + setting things right]
Give her a restaurant, and she’ll revolutionize the culinary world. Give her a clinic, and she’ll transform the medical profession. Give her a school, and she’ll overturn the education system. Tell her to become an official, and she’ll topple the entire court!
Corrupt officials see her as a demon; the common people see her as a lucky star!
Also known as The Great Escape from a Mass Grave: A Gourmet’s Academy
Qianqian’s Story
I Only Meant to Teach, So How Did I Become the Empress Dowager?
One day, Wen Qianqian transmigrates into the body of a chancellor’s legitimate daughter who has died suddenly. She wakes up in a mass grave with a baby in her belly. To avoid being hunted down, she flees south, opens an eatery, and makes a living with her modern cooking skills, serving up one inventive dish after another!
From fried noodles and liangpi to cakes and burgers, she dazzles customers with unusual dishes, occasionally adding a little “secret seasoning” to deal with those who don’t know what’s good for them. She spends her days at the wok and her evenings teaching. Her one-coin school welcomes only poor children: she teaches them to read, and they help her improve people’s lives at court. Her clinic and the policies she promotes make medicine affordable and healthcare accessible to everyone!
Wen Xiaoman brings home a child, only to discover that the kid is a “great villain”!
Later, the children she raises become top exam graduates, frontier generals, and even strategists for enemy nations... And she never imagined that the cold-faced Prince Qi Jing, who spent years tracking her down, would become a regular at her eatery and keep ordering that “deadly” spicy hot pot!
“My princess consort, your poisoning technique has gotten worse.”
“Your Majesty, you’ve got the wrong person. I’m just a cook.” (Smiling with a knife hidden behind her back.jpg)
