Qiu Jiayao’s wish was simple: run a good restaurant in Bianliang, support her family, find a live-in husband, and enjoy a quiet, happy life.
But one day, a strikingly handsome young man suddenly walked into her restaurant and upended her little world. Her mother said she was cursed with too many admirers, while her father said she’d hit the jackpot.
Years later, with children and grandchildren all around her, she still couldn’t figure out whether he’d fallen for her cooking or for her. She was plain-looking, and her only real talent was cooking. How had she managed to make a handsome man from a well-off family fall so deeply in love with her?
It really was true: the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.
