Great Ming: I Found a Little Baby and Spoiled the Whole Zhu Family

When she wakes up, Michelin three-star chef Su Jinyao has transmigrated into the body of a three-and-a-half-year-old orphan in the Hongwu era.

From the start, everything is a disaster: she’s dressed in rags, covered in mud, and has collapsed from hunger right outside the city gates of Yingtian Prefecture!

But a fully maxed-out cooking goddess never gives up. While others flee famine in search of wild vegetables, she boils weeds into an exquisite soup. While others chew tree bark, the mushrooms she roasts make passersby drool. Even a lump of scrap dough she kneads on a whim can become a magnificent pastry that has the imperial chefs begging to be her apprentices!

She struggles along with her cooking skills until she faints from hunger by the back gate of the imperial palace, where kindhearted Empress Ma happens to find her and take her home.

From then on, this tiny, chubby-cheeked little girl becomes the apple of the entire Ming imperial family’s eye.

Only she doesn’t know that every member of the imperial family can hear her thoughts!

[This sweet-and-sour pork is cooked all wrong. The imperial chef’s skills are no better than a roadside stall’s. Let me do it!]

[Zhu Yuanzhang’s temper is a bit too fiery, and he chops people’s heads off at the drop of a hat, but he really treats his wife well. Points for being an exemplary husband!]

[Sigh, Crown Prince Zhu Biao is so gentle, but he’s frail and doesn’t have long to live. I’d better make him a nourishing medicinal stew with all ten tonics...]

Hearing her thoughts, Empress Ma can’t stop smiling every day. “This little girl may sound like a baby when she speaks, but she knows everything in her heart!”

Zhu Yuanzhang, the target of her complaints, scowls, yet can’t help pulling the little bundle into his arms. “What do you mean, I have a fiery temper? This is imperial might! And that braised pork tonight, this little girl has to make it!”