See how a top chef strips her scumbag ex-husband’s family of their fortune and wins over the whole capital with her cooking! [Divorce + food business + clearing out the storerooms + sharp-tongued heroine + ex-husband’s desperate pursuit (he’ll be reduced to ashes)]
On their wedding day, her husband announces in public that he plans to take his cousin as a co-wife. He sneers that Shen Jingwan reeks of cooking smoke and isn’t fit to be the mistress of the Liu household.
Shen Jingwan smiles.
She was a Michelin-starred chef in the modern world, and now she’s been transmigrated into the body of a merchant’s daughter. Why should she put up with this nonsense?
“If that’s how it is, then let’s divorce!”
And she won’t just leave. She’s taking her enormous dowry with her!
Rosewood furniture? Take it!
Antiques and paintings? Take them!
Even the bluestone paving bricks on the ground, pry them up and take them all!
After leaving the Liu household, Shen Jingwan opens a shop called Forget Worries Snacks.
Her “mystery-box pastries” send the capital’s noblewomen into a buying frenzy;
Her “nine-grid hot pot” has imperial relatives lining up for a taste.
Her former husband’s family, who once looked down on her, grow so gaunt from hunger that they kneel at her door and beg to reconcile: “Wan Niang, I was wrong. Please, give us something to eat…”
Shen Jingwan dumps a basin of dishwater on them. “Get lost! Dogs and members of the Liu family are not allowed inside!”
Just as she’s counting money until her hand cramps, Xie Xingzhou, the feared commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, starts hanging around her shop and refuses to leave.
Clutching his stomach, his eyes red at the corners, he rasps, “Shopkeeper Shen, I’ve developed a condition that will kill me if I can’t eat your cooking. You’ll have to take responsibility.”
Everyone is stunned. That’s the living King of Hell!
Shen Jingwan stuffs a spoonful of red-braised pork into his mouth. “If you want a free meal, just say so. Get in line!”
