Top food blogger Su Lulu dies suddenly during a livestream, then opens her eyes in an alternate dynasty as the newly widowed eldest daughter-in-law of the loyal and brave Earl’s household.
In her memories, a meal of plain porridge and simple dishes earns her a thunderous rebuke: “My Qin family is full of loyal heroes, and this is all we get to eat?!”
Su Lulu suddenly understands: it’s not that the food is bad, it’s that it isn’t “hardcore” enough!
From then on, everything changes.
While other households compete to outshine each other, she becomes absorbed in developing “ferocious beast recipes”: braised iron-bristled boar, stir-fried crocodile-tailed lizard, charcoal-grilled ghost-crying deer…
Her brothers-in-law find their motivation to train in martial arts is now “What’s sister-in-law making today?”
Her stern mother-in-law sets down her spoon and looks at the empty pot that held stewed dragon, unsure what to say. “Daughter-in-law, our family fortune…”
Then the barbarians attack the border. Their forces reach the city walls, provisions run out, and despair grips the entire city.
Su Lulu climbs the battlements with her cooking pot and ladle. Looking at the barbarians’ plump, muscular giant wolves and warhorses outside the city, her eyes blaze with the fervent light of a diner spotting premium ingredients.
“I hear barbarian mounts have firm, tender meat that sizzles and drips with fat when roasted?”
Later, the history books record: In the Xth year of Jinghe, the barbarians retreated in defeat and sent a letter of submission, begging for mercy. Asked why, their king replied with bitter indignation: “That country has a divine chef who specializes in cooking our mounts… We beg for peace! We only ask that she stop eyeing our wolves and horses!”
This is a hardcore food story about a gourmet who transmigrates to another world and uses a single cooking pot to feed, and frighten off, an entire nation.
