I’ll Ascend to Immortality After This Meal

Jiang Zhuo was once the head chef of a two-diamond French restaurant in Shanghai, one of the city's Black Pearl-rated establishments. After working herself to death on a grueling 996 schedule, she wakes to find herself in the cultivation world, inhabiting a poor girl who can't even afford shoes and has a "low-grade mortal" spiritual root.

The good news: she has bound herself to the "Food Brings Fortune" System, which lets her cook and level up.

The bad news: her beginner recipe is four-leaf clover luck water, with a process more complicated than clear soup in a French restaurant and an 87% failure rate.

While others cultivate by fighting monsters, Jiang Zhuo cultivates by working the wok.

While others set up stalls to sell pills, she sells "trending drinks" at the entrance to the monster-beast forest.

From a bowl of roadside herbal water to the hottest stall on the city's spirit-food street, then to making the whole cultivation world queue for a taste from her wok...

Jiang Zhuo: Don't rush. There's a limit today, so get in line first.