Su Qingqing, a modern food engineering PhD, transmigrates to become a girl from a poor farming family in ancient times. From the start, her gambling-addict father is about to sell her to pay off his debts when, on the brink of death, she activates the “Myriad Things Growth Space”: anything planted in its black soil will grow, its spirit spring water cures every illness, and time can be sped up!
Using ingredients from the space, she opens a trendy snack stall. Spicy-sour noodles and ice jelly become hits across the county, and even Emperor Xiao Jingyan, traveling incognito, joins the queue. She only wants to live as a carefree rich woman, but after containing a plague, improving the brewing process, and saving the emperor from an assassination attempt, she is dragged into the imperial harem against her will.
Once in the palace, she becomes the most “ridiculous” consort of all: she uses chili water to “disinfect” people, names a prince “Little Potato,” and teaches people to sort their trash in the imperial garden. Palace intrigue? Political schemes? To her, none of that matters as much as inventing new dishes!
Yet she manages to use forensic knowledge to catch poisoners, apply management principles to reform the harem, and draw on geography to help the emperor put down a rebellion, all while giving birth to a prince.
From farm girl to empress dowager, Su Qingqing stirs up the world with a spatula and lives like a winner thanks to her special space. “My goals are simple: grow good potatoes, raise my kid well, and make sure everyone has a hot meal!”
