After Divorcing My Husband, I Became a Sensation in the Capital with My Ex’s Settlement Money

She tossed down a divorce letter and claimed the kitchen as her kingdom!

Liu Xuer transmigrates into the body of a discarded wife from a general’s household. On the day her husband’s true love returns, she turns around and divorces him, demanding an astronomical settlement: “Once the money hits my account, I’m gone. I’m opening a restaurant!”

[A culinary comeback x a deadly political plot]

Fanpian House’s braised pork takes the capital by storm, and its soup dumplings win over the emperor’s palate. But business tycoon Shen Yanzhou lays a fatal trap: spoiled tribute rice is used to poison the emperor, and Liu Xuer is framed! She foils the plot with a bowl of Eight-Treasure Red Rice, wins an imperial plaque with her Nine-Turn Heartwarming Soup, and rises from kitchen maid to head of the Imperial Food Office, overseeing the palace cuisine and investigating poisons across the realm!

[A haunted island in the South Seas x the truth written in blood and tears]

Terror strikes Ghost-Eye Island. Fog swallows ships, and a giant sea beast thrashes beneath the waves! The blood pearl worn by her maid, A Zhu, awakens her mother, the Dragon Granny, imprisoned for ten years. The young virgins’ blood used to cultivate Forget-Sorrow Peppers reveals a heinous crime, staining Liu Xuer’s golden ladle with blood! She uses salt to break the demon vines and blood to find a way out, then slays the giant crocodile Lin Chongwen amid the raging waves!

[Misty Jiangnan x the eye of a new storm]

She returns to the capital in triumph, but Lin Chongwen’s dying curse comes true: “Someone in the capital is waiting for you!” Just as Fanpian House is about to expand, she is suddenly tasked with overseeing grain transport in Jiangnan. The Grain Dragon of the shipping guild rules the black market, while a poisoned chain of moldy rice lurks beneath the surface. The Golden Ladle Order points the way, and the road ahead is endless!

✅ Comeback and face-slapping: discarded wife to head of the Imperial Food Office

✅ Culinary fortune: Fanpian House becomes a sensation, and she receives an imperial golden ladle

✅ Mystery and adventure: deadly secrets on Ghost-Eye Island and a blood pearl that reveals family ties

✅ A capable heroine’s career: using food as a blade to break out of deadly traps

✅ Dark antagonists: a business tycoon, a South Seas crocodile, and a shadowy hand in the capital

✅ High-concept artifacts: a sword hidden in the Golden Ladle Order and an eerie blood pearl