Lin Xiaoxiao, a three-Michelin-star pastry chef, transmigrates into a famine era after a livestreaming mishap.
From the start, she has half a bowl of moldy brown rice, a whisk, and a phone with 5% battery. She makes emerald soup from wild herbs and gets mistaken for an alchemist. She turns a broken crock into a makeshift refrigerator and gets reported for “raising an ice demon.” She serves a feast of fermented tofu, and the whole city clamors for her “stinky but delicious” culinary abominations.
From a ruined temple to the capital, from a food truck to a chain of a hundred shops. The commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard taste-tests her dishes, a stubborn censor waits in line even while impeaching her, and a prince from the Western Regions offers ten prized horses for a bowl of spicy hot pot.
Just as she becomes the greatest female culinary goddess of ancient times, she discovers that she isn’t the only one who has transmigrated into this era. A tech geek from the Warring States period can only grill food on bronze cookware; an artistic young woman from the Tang dynasty always burns her roast duck; and a merchant chef from the Ming dynasty is branded a demon for growing potatoes.
With her phone battery at 1%, she finally understands:
She didn’t come here to become a culinary goddess.
She came to clean up after the transmigrators who arrived before her.
