The Prince's Mansion Kitchen Girl

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Blurb:

Shen Chaoyun is a severely overworked office drone. More than anything, she wants to retire to a mountain village, use the cooking skills her grandmother taught her to make three meals a day, and live a lazy life.

Instead, she wakes up as a cannon-fodder female character in a romance novel who doesn't survive past ten chapters.

Her grandfather offended the Second Prince, and her whole family was exiled to a bitterly cold borderland. She became a concubine to Prince Xuan, the novel's great villain, then was framed and sold to a brothel, where she was forced into a life of degradation.

When she sees several evil servants closing in, she doesn't hesitate to jump out the window and into a river to escape. After being brought back to the estate, she spots a separate kitchen in her courtyard and lights up. She immediately ties on an apron and dives inside.

As a minor cannon-fodder character who was supposed to die, she decides she'd be perfectly happy living in this courtyard. There's no need to compete with the prince's other concubines for his favor.

The maids and matrons in Prince Xuan's residence most want to serve Lady Shen. They hear that her braised pork is even better than the famous Fan Family Restaurant in the capital.

Her duck soup with sour radish has fragrant, clean-tasting meat and crisp, tangy radish cubes. One sip of the broth leaves you feeling refreshed for half a day!

Even the simplest dishes, like cabbage stewed with vermicelli or braised white radish, can make people who don't like rice polish off two bowls. Some even say that ever since they tasted Lady Shen's cooking, everyone else's cooking seems like a waste of vegetables!

What the maids and matrons envy most is that Lady Shen not only cooks delicious food, but shares it with the servants in her courtyard. The ones who attend her personally even get to eat at the same table.

The maids and matrons can hardly wait for their turn!

Prince Xuan is the novel's great villain, willing to do anything to achieve his aims. He is infamous for his debauched ways, and rumors say he has flirted with every noble young lady of any beauty. As for the women who share his bed, even the roughest servant girls aren't spared.

Only his steward knows that he has never touched any of his concubines.

He devotes himself to the affairs of state and often has little appetite. After accidentally tasting her cooking, however, his appetite improves so much that he eats an extra bowl of rice at every meal. From then on, two of her dishes appear on his table every day.

One day, after having her duck soup with sour radish, he burped on his way back. Steward Huang, following behind him, was stunned. He had watched the prince grow up and had never seen him burp from eating too much!

Shen Chaoyun discovers that ever since she started cooking, the people who once wanted to harm her have come crying to beg her forgiveness. After tasting her braised pork, they swear to follow her lead from then on!

Even the unpredictable prince, after taking her to taste the braised pork at Fan Family Restaurant, taps the table and says,