Historical romance + emperor + System + comedy + food
[Quirky little chef with a strange way of thinking × scheming, ruthless emperor]
Ban Wu was a woman who gave the God of Cookery and the entire immortal realm's foodies a headache.
Though she was a celestial chef, she scorned proper cuisine and treasured abominable concoctions above all else.
Her strawberry-steamed herring made the Medicine King feel like he was in heaven and hell at once. It gave him diarrhea for three days, yet he could never forget the taste, pining for it ever after.
Those who loved her dishes treasured them. Those who didn't would cast them aside like trash.
To complete her task of compiling a culinary encyclopedia, Ban Wu descended to the mortal realm with the food System 250 to gather data on dishes.
By a twist of fate, Ban Wu, transformed into a bird, met Li Suyu, the Great Yan emperor, who suffered from anorexia.
Li Suyu: “Is this chicken chirping away and cursing me?”
Ban Wu: “You're the chicken! I'm a bird, a bird!”
Ban Wu feeds Li Suyu her abominable concoctions, while Li Suyu keeps coming up with new ways to trick the bird. The man and bird love to hate each other, trading jabs and having a grand time.
System 250 lives up to its name, mercilessly throwing its master under the bus.
250: Celestial One, Princess Consort Jing's faith in your cooking has reached 100. By the rules, you must grant your believer's wish.
Ban Wu: Easy enough. Grant it.
Not long after, Princess Consort Jing, who had been childless for years, became pregnant. Meanwhile, Ban Wu, who had granted her believer's wish, turned into a meat chicken.
Ban Wu: “Being turned into a chicken is bad enough, so why am I a meat chicken? That dog of an emperor, Li Suyu, keeps drooling when he looks at me. Is he going to eat me?!”
