[Scheming revenge ✖️ two formidable leads ✖️ satisfying read]
Once, she was the shining star of S City's restaurant industry. Xiaoshanju, the restaurant she founded with her own hands, was her pride and joy. But a carefully orchestrated “food poisoning” scandal ruined the genius chef Jiang Xiao overnight. Her upscale restaurant was shut down, she was saddled with enormous debts, and she fell into an abyss. The masterminds behind it all were her former fiancé and her cousin.
Now penniless and disgraced, she takes the dilapidated Jiang family restaurant with her and vows to get justice for her family and herself. A spectacular counterattack banquet, held in the name of “gratitude,” is her first step back to the top. It also rekindles the wild, calculating, and fiery thirst for revenge buried deep within her.
Her brilliance streaks across S City's silent night like a comet, drawing the attention of Lu Jingze, a business magnate at the top of the food chain with influence everywhere. This inscrutable, perfectly composed man sees Jiang Xiao's talent and ambition at a glance, and invites her to “join forces for the bigger picture.”
With old enemies closing in at every turn and a new ally whose depths she can't fathom, how will Jiang Xiao fight her way upstream through the tides of fine cuisine and big money? And how will her alliance with Lu Jingze, born from calculations of mutual benefit and bound by a battle of wits, upend S City's old order and ignite a restrained yet irresistible attraction between them?
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