She opens her eyes!
A top chef transmigrates into a chaotic age from the start, orphaned, with her clan relatives forcing her to marry a widower more than thirty years her senior?
Luckily, her aunt, who married far away to the Yan Kingdom, takes pity on her, and she becomes a lame cousin living under someone else’s roof.
Her uncle smiles. “Fu’er has come from afar. We should treat her to rich, delicious food.”
The dishes they serve: pork soup made with unplucked bristles, sauce made from ant eggs, and old mustard greens so salty they taste bitter...
Zhu Fu: ???
If she hadn’t studied the history of Chinese cuisine, she really would have thought they were trying to intimidate her.
A top chef in her previous life, she won’t stand for this!
So she quietly gets to work building things up...
One block of tofu fills the whole city with its aroma, starting from a tiny courtyard.
One watermill lets the soldiers of the northern frontier enjoy hot meals.
As she invents more and more, rulers from every kingdom offer her a place at their side.
And along the way, she takes in a pitiful boy who never gets enough to eat.
Though he has the blood of a great clan, everyone bullies and abandons him.
She feeds him again and again, but he refuses, so she gives up.
Until someone knocks her down and mocks her: “A cripple and a dog are made for each other, forever and ever.”
That A Quan is the first to charge in. His face is covered in blood, but he won’t back down.
“Come with me. I’ll make sure you always have enough to eat.”
With one promise, he truly becomes her devoted companion alone.
Good food, the kingdoms.
One person, one lifetime.
