The Kitchen Maiden: I Become a Master Chef in Ancient Times

Lin Wantang transmigrates into a fishing village as a minor cannon-fodder character, and it's hell mode from the start: a drafty shack, a sick mother coughing blood, and a little brother so hungry his eyes have turned green.

Her only "asset" is a skinny clam spitting out sand in a basin in the corner.

A Michelin-starred chef in her past life, how could poverty snuff out her fire?

With a handful of wild garlic and a few grains of coarse salt, she stirs up an astonishing aroma in a battered iron pot!

In her hands, "garbage ingredients" bloom into a delicacy that sets the whole dockside abuzz.

The Tang Ji eatery quickly makes a name for itself. The clink of copper coins warms their humble home and kindles hope.

But it also attracts greedy eyes and vicious schemes. Rumors turn poisonous, false accusations threaten her life, and the mastermind behind it all wants to uproot her completely.

At the edge of despair, a mysterious jade pendant appears, bringing to light secrets of the Caobang and pointing to a shocking miscarriage of justice: her father died at sea under false pretenses!

It turns out that the poor fisherman's daughter's past is far more complicated than it seems.

The space beside the stove is also a battleground where life and death hang in the balance. Lin Wantang wields her ladle like a spear, using flavor to break through every crisis.

In this ancient world of surging undercurrents, she will cook up a sensational "Banquet of Injustice" and make her enemies pay in blood, clearing her loved ones' names and giving them the justice they deserve!