Transmigrate | Food | No Romance | Northeast Chinese Auntie | Striving to Escape | Daily Life of Running a Business | Country and Family | Satisfying Read
Sun Guifang, forty-eight, is the proprietress of a small restaurant in Northeast China.
One moment, she was making dumplings at her parents' home. The next, she had fallen into the palace of a dynasty where there were more rules than grains of rice.
The princess was starving. Sun brought her a bowl of hot dumplings, only to be accused of "poisoning the princess."
No problem. Flower-shaped steamed buns, sweet soup, twice-cooked pork, one dish after another: she carved out a place for herself in the imperial kitchen.
But the palace matron took a dislike to her, and the king wanted to use a death warrant to keep her in the palace forever.
That night, she packed her bundle and tucked her ID card, sewn into her lapel, inside it. "I can cook and I can work, but I've still got my daughter and my old man back home..."
After escaping to the seaside, she opened a shop and gathered little fish and shrimp. With her Northeastern accent and home-style cooking, she made everyone who had looked down on her see her in a new light.
Until envoys from Huaxia came to collect tribute from the vassal states. At the banquet, dishes whose names had been changed would reclaim their original names, return to their homeland, and be welcomed back into the family.
