In Country X, there's a secret tradition: when each ruler comes of age, they transform into a feline and roam among the common people for half a year.
Gao Taotao transmigrated just in time for the coming-of-age ceremony of the crown prince, Long Junyu. The next day, she found a little cat at Tianxiang Restaurant.
From then on, the restaurant's prettiest little cook raised a very bad-tempered kitten. She had it taste her dishes every day and kept feeding it all kinds of delicacies. In less than half a year, the cat had grown as round as a ball.
Meanwhile, the imperial physicians were astonished to find that the person lying unconscious in the Eastern Palace was getting fatter and fatter. His body, once all muscle, had turned as soft as cotton, and a poke left a dent.
Half a year later, the unconscious crown prince woke up right on schedule and made a grand search for a woman named Gao Taotao.
The brilliant and mighty Crown Prince had turned into a fat pig, and the battle for the position of crown princess immediately lost steam.
Gao Taotao was heartbroken when her kitty disappeared. She searched all the way to the capital, only to find that the city was swept up in a wave of marriages, because nobody wanted to marry the pig-faced crown prince. Through a twist of fate, Gao Taotao was recognized as the missing daughter of the prime minister's family.
Later, the emperor decreed their marriage, and the common-born, legitimate daughter of the prime minister's family nervously married the fat crown prince.
On their wedding night, Gao Taotao failed to escape and was cornered by Long Junyu. "You fattened me up and now you want to run?"
It turned out the Fat Crown Prince was the chubby cat she'd raised. Excited, Gao Taotao cooked a few of her signature dishes for her kitty husband.
Long Junyu frowned. "No feeding me late at night."
Gao Taotao scratched his chin. "Good boy!"
Long Junyu: "Meow~"
After their passionate night together, Gao Taotao lay in her husband's arms, drenched in sweat, and confessed her love: "Everyone else thinks you're fat, but I don't mind. I'm the one who fed you."
Long Junyu: "Honey, I was only getting fat for fun."
After her husband slimmed down, he started attracting admirers again. No problem. She could just fatten him back up.
When foreign envoys mocked her husband for being fat, she shot back, "You have a problem with the man I fed? Then go back home carrying your two-hundred-plus pounds!"
Everyone knows the empress's favorite thing to do is rub the emperor's ears while lovingly feeding him.
Theme: Good food and love are the two things we must never let down.
