Transmigrating into the body of an impoverished official's daughter, she makes a name for herself in Bianjing by selling porridge on the street!
While other transmigrators battle their half-sisters and fight their stepmothers, Su Wanyi quietly sets up a food stall. A bowl of Five-Element Medicinal Porridge saves a beggar on the verge of death; a plate of Plum Blossom Divination Cakes reveals the secrets in the hearts of the powerful. Music, chess, calligraphy, and painting? Just a little entertainment before the meal. Traditional medicine and physiognomy? Even better for preparing ingredients!
Soon, a mysterious cook becomes the talk of Bianjing: she can divine your fortunes with a single reading, or change your feng shui with a bowl of soup. Powerful nobles line up with silver in hand, just to ask her to make them a “lucky dish.” Until the cold-faced Prince Commandery who has gone undercover presses down on her cleaver. “Your palm lines speak of a phoenix crying out in the heavens. Would you care to come to my residence... as a cook?”
She only wanted to quietly become a food influencer, but instead she's dragged into a court mystery. When the Empress Dowager is poisoned, she uses medicinal cuisine to detoxify her. When the princes vie for the throne, she lays out a strategy through a banquet. The entire capital thinks she's just a cooking enthusiast who dabbles in mysticism, never realizing that the fortune she casually divined for the emperor's reign is hidden in a plate of osmanthus pastries.
Then the border is in danger, and she heads north with the army. A pot of “Starlight Marching Stew” drives off thirty thousand enemy troops in the dead of night, and she is ultimately hailed throughout the realm as “the Song dynasty's female Imperial Preceptor who rules the realm from her kitchen and brings peace to the land with the fragrance of food.”
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