The Divorced Cook and the Emperor's Sweet Devotion

After being cast aside as a sacrificial bride, Meng Tian'er wants only to live a peaceful life with her cooking skills and uncover the truth behind her family's massacre. Her boiled cabbage can get the frail regent Song Yuyao out of bed for a second bowl. Her rock-sugar pear soup can make him knock on her kitchen door in the middle of the night. Everyone laughs at her for being a cook who only knows how to please men. Meanwhile, Meng Tian'er quietly opens little restaurants all over the capital, becoming the proprietress of Zhi Wei Guan, a discreet favorite among the powerful and wealthy. Then, at a palace banquet, the enemy kingdom's crown prince takes one bite of her crab-stuffed oranges and slams his hand on the table. “I would trade three cities for this cook!” As the entire hall falls silent, the sickly regent, whose coughing blood looks like an act, slowly rises and wipes the scarlet from his lips before pulling her behind him. “I'm afraid not. This woman is mine.” She thinks this is a sweet romance where food brings two people together. But she has no idea that every dish she makes is stirring the deepest currents of the dynasty.