The moment office drone Chen Xiaoguo polished his family’s heirloom bronze hot pot, he and the pot crashed straight through the roof of the imperial kitchen in the Great Yin Dynasty.
From then on, hot pot became the most dangerous revolution.
Meituan on his left, a divided hot pot on his right.
He passed instant noodle seasoning off as Persian spices and cured a prince’s loss of appetite;
He livestreamed a hot pot feast before the emperor, and the civil and military officials took the comments as divine counsel;
He even turned saltpeter ice-making into an ancient cold-chain delivery network, infuriating the Imperial Astronomical Bureau, who denounced it as “a perversion of yin and yang”! But the hotter hot pot got, the more conspiracies boiled over.
The gluttonous Commandery Princess Zhao Jiuwan disguised herself as a man and used his hot pot restaurant to launder money and gather intelligence;
A court physician stole meat with his acupuncture needles and somehow came up with the “seven-up, eight-down hot pot technique”;
A Persian spy tried to steal the recipe and turned a rotating kebab knife into a star-charting instrument…
It wasn’t until the night of the full moon, when a strange star chart appeared in the bronze pot,
that Chen Xiaoguo realized he wasn’t hot-potting mutton
He was handling the spark of a mechanical civilization left behind by a fallen dynasty,
the recipe book of Dingjun, a bronze evil god who devoured space and time,
and the ultimate KPI assigned by the Meituan System: “interdimensional hot pot delivery driver.”
As the ambitions of the civil and military officials bubbled in the divided hot pot,
as battle reports wafted in from the beacon towers with the scent of chili,
as a meteor shower transformed into a hot pot descending from beyond the heavens **
he lifted the boiling bronze pot and sneered:
“So I just have to save the world?
Fine. I’ll take this pot on!”
One-sentence summary:
I traveled back to ancient times to open a hot pot restaurant, only to discover that I’m the main course.
The moment office drone Chen Xiaoguo polished his family’s heirloom bronze hot pot, he and the pot crashed straight through the roof of the Great Yin…
