Name: City Life: I'm the Steel Mill's God-Tier Chef
Author: Five and a Half Years Too Many

Synopsis

[Cooking Prodigy] [Single Female Lead] [Warm, Everyday Life] [Powerhouse] (There’s also an older book, "Guagua Is Great")

In 1951, Gu Qingshan arrived in the legendary world of "The Courtyard Is Full of Poultry".

In this chaotic era, he chose to steal Qin Huairu away first and sit back to watch the tigers fight.

The man before you is the courtyard’s battle god, the steel mill’s top culinary genius, a legend of the capital, the man the spirit-summoning master Jia Zhangshi doesn’t dare defy, and a man with connections everywhere: Gu Qingshan!

Watch as the moral paragon Yi Zhonghai tries to guilt-trip everyone.

See how the spirit-summoning master Jia Zhangshi calls upon Old Jia.

And watch as Liu Haizhong, the loving father whose children supposedly respect him, gets put in his place by his sons.

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