Transmigrating into the past as a poor little nobody with a run-down workshop to her name, Su Yan says, “I know how to handle this!”
A modern-day heir to a tofu-making family, she puts her secret five-spice tofu rolls to work and leaves her competitors green with envy.
As her business grows, so does the number of handsome men around her. A refined scholar comes by every day with a bowl to buy tofu, a brawny hunter brings her wild rabbits and begs her to cook for him, and a dashing playboy fans himself and says he wants to marry her.
Su Yan: “No need to rush. Get in line, one at a time.”
Then one day, government officials show up at her door. It turns out she’s the missing legitimate daughter of the marquis’s family!
Even more outrageous, the first time she sees the regent who holds power over the entire court, she falls for him.
Dressed in black, with a face like a painting, the man is so aloof and chaste he hardly seems real.
Su Yan thinks to herself: Do all the men in the capital look like this? Coming back was worth it!
But the man visits her shop every day to eat tofu, all while giving her a gaze as cold as ice.
Then terrible news arrives from the battlefield: the regent has been ambushed and disappeared, his fate unknown.
Clutching the note that reads “I’m safe, don’t worry,” Su Yan grits her teeth and heads north to find her husband.
The day she finds him, he’s covered in blood and unconscious.
She keeps watch over him for three days and three nights. When he wakes, his first words are, “What are you doing here?”
Su Yan glares at him through red-rimmed eyes. “I’m here to collect what you owe for the tofu!”
Before long, everyone in the capital knows that the regent loves not only eating tofu, but also the woman who makes it.
