I Became a Chef in Ancient Times

Blurb: After waking up one day, Jiang Lingyue finds herself in a book as a doomed cannon-fodder character who dies young: the female lead’s future sister-in-law. To avoid getting killed off by the unscrupulous author, Jiang Lingyue decides to cling to the female lead and borrow some of her good fortune to stay alive. When she learns that the female lead, Rong Yan’er, is a little foodie, Jiang Lingyue picks up her old hobby and starts by cooking for her. Stir-fried cabbage with vinegar, pagoda tree flower cakes, spicy chicken wings, and fish with pickled cabbage. Sweet rice wine dumplings, eight-treasure porridge, grape wine, and osmanthus pastries. Then one day, Jiang Lingyue gazes at the top scholar standing before her door, the female lead’s brother Rong Liyan, and cries out inside: At last, she can bow out after a job well done. All that’s left is to break off the engagement! But Rong Liyan gazes dotingly at Jiang Lingyue as she asks to end their engagement and says solemnly, “In our family, there’s no divorce. The only way out is for one of us to become a widow or widower.” Jiang Lingyue mutters, “But we’re not even married yet!” Rong Liyan nods gravely. “Right. Then let’s get married right away.” Jiang Lingyue is bewildered. I worked so hard to bow out gracefully. Are you messing with me? The Duke of Dingguo, Chu Ying, who had finally found his biological daughter: “You want to marry a daughter of the Chu family. Did you even ask what her family thinks?” Theme: Grow resiliently through adversity and promote food culture.