Notes on Survival as an Ancient Slave Girl

[Honest Big Sister x Lovesick Little Melon]

[Everyday Life, Sweet Romance]

Just moments after Xu Ling won gold at the Culinary King Championship, she transmigrated into the Tang Dynasty as a servant girl in an official's household. She was shunted around the rear courtyards, hauling water, tending fires, and even emptying chamber pots. She did the dirtiest, most exhausting, heaviest work for the least pay, ate the worst food, lived in the shabbiest room, and was constantly scolded.

Unless something unexpected happened, she would spend the rest of her life trapped in the inner courtyards, then be casually assigned by her master to some low-ranking servant, bear a little slave, and repeat the cycle all over again.

Xu Ling was numb with resignation. Why wasn't she dead yet?

But then again, life was precious, and she figured she could still try to save herself.

With the culinary patriarch watching over her, surely she could carve out a way to survive with crab roe tofu, boiled beef, twice-cooked pork, poached chicken, roast suckling pig, honey-glazed char siu, steamed sea bass, squirrel-shaped mandarin fish, Longjing shrimp, braised pork intestine, sweet-and-sour pork, and chopped-chili fish head?

No one in this world can resist the delicious assault of good food. No one.

Her goal: buy her freedom!

Zhang Meiqu's father died young. He depended on his widowed mother, was disliked by his relatives and shunned by his neighbors, and lived in ruined temples, cow sheds, and pigsties. He suffered every kind of scorn and humiliation.

When he visited his cousin's home, his cousin threw meat on the ground and told him to pick it up and eat it.

When he was a child in school, his teacher deliberately wrote the character for