The Stand-In Takes the Job: I'm the Gourmet Chef of a Wealthy Family

[Gourmet] + [Daily Life] + [Content Creator] + [Business] + [Bickering Couple]

When her dad throws out his back, Qiao Manman is forced to take over the family business.

She fills in for him as private chef at a wealthy family’s mansion, infamous for being so demanding that they’ve driven away eight chefs.

On her first day, the eldest son wants imperial banquet cuisine, the second daughter wants a three-Michelin-star meal, the lady of the house wants health food, and the master wants the taste of home.

Qiao Manman serves everyone a bowl of egg fried rice and wins over the whole family’s stomachs.

Come on, I’m a food-channel creator with a million followers. I can recreate Michelin-starred dishes with one hand and master street food with the other. Chinese and Western cooking together work wonders, and I can handle even the pickiest eaters.

At a mansion’s banquet, her “cabbage in clear broth” turns a sworn enemy into a business partner.

In the midst of a family feud, one pot of “Buddha Jumps Over the Wall” gets two brothers to make peace.

At a gathering of the capital’s elite heirs, they specifically request her spicy hot pot.

Other wealthy families: “The Zhou family looks pretty well these days, huh?”

The Zhou family: “Don’t ask. We just have a good cook at home.”

Qiao Manman weighs her giant ladle in her hand and watches the number in her bank account keep climbing: “Don’t fall for me, it won’t end well, unless you pay me to cook.”