After I Transmigrated into a Book, I Won Over the Villain with Food

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Bai Yao lost her hearing to illness many years ago. After transmigrating, she became a deaf and mute village girl who had been deaf from birth and was mistaken for an idiot.

The village girl had it even worse than she did: her family ignored her, and she survived through sheer stubbornness.

Bai Yao had been doted on by her family ever since she was little. How could she possibly handle this hell-mode difficulty?

Fortunately, a chatty System appeared in her mind.

To complete its missions and keep pursuing her dream of cooking in an ancient world where salt was scarce and oil was precious, Bai Yao deliberately married Wei Yunlan, a grown scholar who had repeatedly failed the imperial examinations and would one day become a villain.

She never expected to be cherished like a treasure once more.

As she cooked one delicious dish after another, Bai Yao became, without even realizing it, the woman every woman in the world envied most.

Wei Yunlan was reborn, his heart full of hatred, only to discover that he had somehow acquired a deaf young wife.

She was gentle by nature, and little stars shone in her eyes when she smiled. Most importantly, her clever hands could turn the most ordinary ingredients into delicious food.

Sipping savory fish soup that warmed him to the heart, the ambitious Wei Yunlan found himself with a new goal in life.

He would make sure his little wife got everything she wanted and lived without a care for the rest of her life.

A gentle, smiling, deaf beauty who lives for good food x a sinister, ruthless, reborn villain who dotes on his wife

1. Some dishes may not hold up to close scrutiny. Recipes are used as reference, so please go easy on any oversights.

2. The female lead is deaf at first, but her condition will improve later.

3. The dynasty is fictional, and the worldbuilding is full of authorial inventions, so don't overthink the details. One-on-one romance, both leads are sexually inexperienced.

My ongoing novel, My Reborn Lover Says I Betrayed Him, can be found in my collection. Please add it to yours!~

Bai Ruo was born into the world and became the tenth princess of the Great Yu Dynasty.

Watching several of her elder sisters either be betrothed or forced into political marriages, none of them living happily, Bai Ruo seemed to glimpse her own future.

To escape a tragic fate, she picked out a future husband for herself while still very young. Her plan was simple: start training her husband while he was still a child.

Just as they reached marriageable age, her young lover suddenly came to confront her, eyes red with anger.

"You want to become emperor?"

Bai Ruo: "...Huh?"

"And after becoming emperor, you still want to build a harem!"

Bai Ruo: "Well..."

"You'd rather make some ugly thing your empress than let me into the palace!!!"

Bai Ruo: "...I didn't, I wouldn't, don't make things up."

Only later did Bai Ruo discover that the future husband she had been raising since childhood had been reborn.

In his previous life, Bai Ruo overcame countless trials and, decades later, ascended the throne as the first empress in the history of the Great Yu Dynasty.

After her coronation, however, Bai Ruo turned around and made the son of an obscure minor official her empress.

To balance the court, she later brought several other officials' sons into her harem.

The one person she had loved since childhood was the only one left out.

Facing her lover's accusations, Bai Ruo suppressed the ambition in her eyes and smiled as she kissed him.

"How can you believe in things that haven't happened yet?"

"How could a woman possibly become emperor?"

"You're the only one I love."

A moment later, she heard her lover choke out, "I'll help you become emperor. Just don't leave me, okay?"

Lin Lu had been solitary since childhood, and the world despised him for his feminine appearance.

Only Bai Ruo had given all her affection to him, and him alone, ever since they were children.

Lin Lu loved Bai Ruo so much that he would give up everything for her, even his life.

For Bai Ruo, he stained his hands with blood, learned to scheme, and reached for power he had never cared about before, becoming someone even he could barely recognize.

All because of something Bai Ruo once said:

"So what if I'm a woman? I will sit above all others and wield the greatest power in this world!"

But when Bai Ruo stood atop the high platform, Lin Lu looked up and saw only her icy expression.

Without realizing it, he had become the greatest threat to Bai Ruo's ascension to the throne.

Core theme: Good food can heal every wound.