Su Wan, the state banquet chef, disguises herself as a rough-and-tumble maid in Jia Mu's small kitchen, trying to survive by relying on her craftsmanship. Unexpectedly, under the prosperity of the Jia family, the delicacies were actually arsenic wrapped in honey.
Wang Xifeng's favorite "fried bones" mysteriously disappeared on the night she lost power; the "lotus leaf soup" served on Baoyu's birthday was actually mixed with slow poison; a lost "sobering soup" made two gentlemen say the same crazy thing before they died suddenly... Every time a famous Red Mansion dish is restored, a murder masked by deliciousness is revealed.
When she turned to the most secret cookbook of the Jia family and found the forbidden soup recipe named "Zihe Che", which was said to be able to prolong life by a century, a pair of hands belonging to the top dignitaries had already prepared a chopping board for her.
"Either, become my sharpest knife; or, become the most delicious dish at my banquet."
Su Wan clenched the spatula and smiled. Then let's see who is the dish being cooked at this banquet where life and death are the fire and power is the cauldron.
Reader comments
When I read the first half of the book, I thought it was a food article, but I didn't expect that it ended up being a home-fighting article. The logic is quite smooth.
When I read the first half of the book, I thought it was a food article, but I didn't expect that it ended up being a home-fighting article. The logic is quite smooth.