The Golden Tongue of a Republican-Era Tycoon

The Golden Tongue of a Republican-Era Tycoon

[Brutal, taciturn, scheming culinary prodigy and reborn tycoon x beautiful, talented cook and transmigrated book character who just wants to earn money and stay alive]

1.

Jiang Xiaotao had just won the 21st Newcomer Cooking Award

when she died suddenly and transmigrated into a Republican-era novel, becoming a cannon-fodder character destined not to survive the first ten chapters.

To make enough money to escape alive, Jiang Xiaotao opened a little restaurant.

She counted every last scallion to the penny.

After all, you need money to make a getaway!

Luckily, she met Ding Yizhou, a fool with money to burn.

Ten silver dollars for a bowl of noodles, thirty for a serving of char siu, sixty for a basket of soup dumplings! Jiang Xiaotao calculated that she'd soon have enough to buy a boat ticket!

But then, at the birthday banquet of a powerful figure, a mystery about her birth inexplicably came to light...

Only then did she learn

that her mother came from a wealthy family in the Jiangsu-Zhejiang region!

That her father was a famous warlord with hundreds of thousands of men under his command!

That she'd even been betrothed as a child,

and her intended was none other than Ding Yizhou, the culinary world's "Golden Tongue," whom all the socialites of Shanghai were vying to marry, and the scion of a top-tier family who would eventually be thrown into the Huangpu River to feed the fish by the male lead!

Wait a minute!

The one all the socialites are vying for?

The culinary world's "Golden Tongue"?!

A scion of a wealthy family?!

Thrown into the Huangpu River?!

Is this the same dopey Ding Yizhou I know...?

Jiang Xiaotao: ...I have a few choice words, but I'm not sure I should say them.

2.

Everyone knew that the Ding family had served as imperial chefs for generations. Their descendants were not only excellent cooks, but also peerless businesspeople. Nearly every famous restaurant in Shanghai belonged to the Ding family.

As the eldest son, Ding Yizhou was exceptionally gifted and had been called the "Golden Tongue" since childhood. But after a fever when he was seven, he became irritable and taciturn, making it impossible to guess what he liked.

Then he met the young cook Jiang Xiaotao, and suddenly became gentle and tolerant, with a smile on his face every day. Who could recognize the moody young Master Ding in this man?

Ding Yizhou, who hadn't set foot in a kitchen for ten years, even cooked an entire table of delicacies for Jiang Xiaotao on her twentieth birthday.

Everyone said Miss Jiang had only gotten close to Young Master Ding for his money. But Ding Yizhou alone understood that he had already given everything he had just to be with her. Even his sense of taste had long ago been exchanged with the gods. What did a little money matter?

Whatever you want, if I have it, it's yours. Even my life.

[Every meeting in this world is a reunion after a long separation.]

P.S.:

1. The broad setting borrows from the Republican era, but everything else is fictional! Entirely fictional! Very fictional!

2. The hero is reborn, and the heroine transmigrates into a book.

3. Food and everyday life, slow burn.

Theme: Your fate is in your own hands