When modern food critic Su Wan tasted the lost ancient dish Thousand-Year Dew, she transmigrated a thousand years into the past and awoke in the Great Qi palace's Cold Palace, suffering a difficult labor. Using modern knowledge to save herself, she kindled a fire with wild greens and leftover scraps. With her refined palate and quick wits, she won over palace servants, allied with a prince, and exposed conspiracies, uncovering the astonishing truth that she was the reincarnation of the founding empress. A dish of Chilling Radiance Sticky Rice won her a secret map; a pot of Ironbone Soup steadied an entire army. Wielding food as a blade, she navigated the treacherous world of political intrigue one careful step at a time.
When she recreated the Thousand-Year Banquet and drank the Forget-Worries Soup, her consciousness connected with that of a modern scientist. It turned out Thousand-Year Dew was a thousand-year-old consciousness experiment, and she was its only successful returnee. A century later, her bloodline awakened and modern civilization arrived through time. Two eras resonated, and a Thousand-Year Banquet spanning past and present was served once more.
A Taste Across a Thousand Years is an epic blending historical romance, transmigration, female growth, culinary intrigue, and science-fiction reincarnation. It tells the story of a woman's transformation from a birthing room in the Cold Palace to a master of civilization, and shows how "flavor" can become an eternal light that connects hearts, crosses time and space, and illuminates civilization.
One bowl of soup, and a thousand years begin.
