Maybe I Just Ate Too Much [Transmigration]

Xie Shi is a graduate student at China Agricultural University by profession and a popular food streamer on a video-sharing site in his spare time. He wakes up to find he has transmigrated to ancient times, where his family is out of food from the start. His father, the head chef at an academy, has been framed and is about to face prison. What a predicament. Xie Shi: “Don’t panic. It’s no big deal. I’ll offer the brown-sugar-and-yellow-clay decolorization method in exchange for the academy going easy on my father.” He had only stepped in to punish a villain, but unexpectedly, the academy’s deputy head offered him a job as the cafeteria chef. So Xie Shi, who needed to support his family, returned to his side gig. With his godlike cooking skills, he fed everyone at the academy, along with a few mysterious remnants of the previous dynasty, both young and old, and a whole crowd of oddballs who kept showing up for free meals… A famous Neo-Confucian scholar: “Though Dongcang Academy’s teachings on practical statecraft differ from my own, its cafeteria dishes are a rare delight. Be sure to send me an invitation to next year’s lecture!” A well-traveled scholar: “I wonder if your academy still needs a lecturer. I may be a humble old man, but I have a school of thought I can teach. I don’t care about the salary, as long as you provide three meals a day.” A pirate chief who robs the rich to help the poor: “I’m not opposed to accepting amnesty, on one condition: Chef Xie’s food and drink must be unlimited!” When busy, Xie Shi makes delicious food. When he has time, he returns to his real profession, growing, cultivating, grafting, and crossbreeding plants. He can even feed his aloof, handsome neighbor, the academy head. Before he knows it, he’s developed a high-yield hybrid rice and fulfilled his great ambition of feeding half the world! His only problem is that he just wanted to run an ordinary cafeteria, but the academy head and everyone at the academy are so full they insist on dragging him into a rebellion… Xie Shi: “Seems like you’re all eating too much!” A food-and-farming novel set in an imaginary ancient era, focusing on Lingnan cuisine with Sichuan dishes on the side. The love interest is Han Ji, the academy head. A lighthearted, no-brainpower-needed power fantasy with a bottom protagonist~ Completed older novel: Mr. Republican-Era’s Kitchen: A feel-good food story about transmigrating to the Republican era. Please give it a read~ New novel: Where Is the Magical Milk Tea?! [Farming]. A feel-good farming story about a retired big shot running a milk tea shop in another world. Please add it to your reading list! Theme: No matter what circumstances you find yourself in, never forget good food, poetry, or the spirit of youth.