[Food] [Everyday Life] [Business] [Slow Burn] [Love-Struck Male Lead]
[Savvy, Clear-Headed Chef and Boss VS Gloomy, Sensitive Chief Eunuch]
Top chef Pei Xunzhen is transmigrated in a car accident into the body of a disfigured, scarred orphan girl.
The bad news: The original owner's identity is a mystery, and she is hunted the moment she arrives.
The good news: Her new body has keen senses, allowing her to carry on the original owner's legacy and revive her culinary skills!
Traditional red-braised pork, amber pork trotters, salt-baked chicken, whole-fish feasts, Kung Pao shrimp, braised shark fin, sea cucumber stuffed in a purse, rice with abalone sauce...
Her exquisite cooking stuns everyone, and her innovative dishes are snapped up all over the city!
One day, a humble little food stall suddenly opens at the entrance to a narrow alley in the capital. The owner keeps turning out all sorts of novel, delicious snacks, all affordable, good quality, and wonderfully fragrant.
Chilled spicy skewers, juicy pan-fried buns, pork chop rice, stinky tofu with pickled cabbage...
In just a few months, Zhenji Eatery becomes a sensation across the capital thanks to its exceptional flavors, with diners lining up from one end of the street to the other!
From a humble stall to a grand restaurant, Boss Pei devotes herself to her business, completely unaware that the reserved and dignified Lord Gu next door is looking at her with ever-deepening affection.
(Content warnings: The story features a wide variety of ingredients, and its alternate history should not be scrutinized too closely. The heroine's disfigurement is later healed. The hero is a real eunuch; he can stand despite his limp, but usually uses a wheelchair. Gender-bender romance warning. The romance develops later in the story, which focuses mainly on food.)
