A World Without Chili Peppers

[Historical transmigration and development novel, Transmigrating Into a Book and Stealing the Male Lead's Script, is ongoing. Coming soon: a Western fantasy and fourth calamity development novel, Ascension Begins with Summoning Players (Western Fantasy). The blurb is below. If you're interested, please bookmark it. Thanks, lovely readers~]

Blurb:

Jian Qing, a Sichuan cuisine chef, transmigrated one day. Other people who transmigrated got fully stocked pocket dimensions and spiritual springs everywhere. Why did she get nothing but a whole pocket dimension full of chili peppers?

Having only chili peppers would be bad enough, but why was her family penniless and her name in tatters?

Wait a second... Why doesn't anyone in this land of Sichuan eat spicy food?

Sichuan cuisine without spicy food has no soul! Jian Qing, a fan of heavy oil and spice, wept tears of joy. Thank goodness she had chili peppers, or how would she eat?

How about some spicy chicken, pork with garlic sauce, husband-and-wife lung slices, twice-cooked pork, pickled chili chicken feet, boiled spicy pork, spicy shrimp, mapo tofu, and a nine-compartment hot pot?

She starts with a small restaurant that's on the verge of closing. All the ingredients have to be bought, and all the staff have to be recruited off the street. Before she knows it... Sichuan cuisine has taken over the country, and she's become the richest person around?

Jian Qing: "Hey, don't think I won't recognize you just because you covered your face. You're a prince. See the sign at the entrance? 'Prince Huayang and dogs are not allowed.'"

Prince Huayang Chu Fei: "...Meow?"

He wept inwardly: I should have treasured her when she was clinging to me. Sob. Her cooking really is delicious.

[Jian Qing, a Sichuan chef devoted to her career x Chu Fei, a picky foodie who chases after his wife]

Reader's note: One-on-one romance, both leads are pure. Fictional setting, very fictional.

All recipes and cooking methods without citations come from online searches. All comments about the food without citations are made up by me.

Coming soon: Historical transmigration and development novel, Transmigrating Into a Book and Stealing the Male Lead's Script

Xue Yu, an engineering student, transmigrated into a novel as a cannon-fodder supporting heroine. Forced to disguise herself as a man, she became a stand-in for the real male lead, a prince. As soon as he returned to claim his place, her miserable life as a tool would be over.

Xue Yu: Stay away from the plot! Run for your life!

But running away takes money. As Xue Yu diligently invented things and saved up for her escape, she discovered that her bound System kept drawing one beneficial technology after another: sugar-making, improved papermaking, selective breeding, ironworking, and more.

Gradually...

Her scheming adoptive mother grew fond of her.

Her tyrant adoptive father began to value her immensely.

Even the powerful, indispensable aides around the male lead began looking to her with hope...

They said, "You can change this chaotic world."

Before Xue Yu could figure out what was going on, the officials cried, "The Third Prince's ascension is only right and proper!" and put her on the throne.

Only then did Xue Yu realize that while she was trying to keep her head down, the male lead's script had somehow ended up in her hands!

The wedding of the emperor and empress took place right after the coronation ceremony. Xue Yu lifted the bride's veil.

Looking at the "bride," she finally lost her composure. Mom, why is the male lead here!!

The beauty in red held her close, the coldness in her eyes already gone. "Your Majesty, shall we retire for the night?"

Xue Yu: ???

[Xue Yu, a rational fake prince who disguises herself as a man and keeps her head down to survive x Fang Jinhu, a mad true prince who disguises himself as a woman]

Ascension Begins with Summoning Players (Western Fantasy)

Hirya, the Saintess of Light, never imagined that she would betray her faith. But the gods abandoned her first.

Hunted into a borderland forest, with her loyal holy knights nearly wiped out and all her glory stripped away, she was condemned because a prophecy claimed she wasn't the best choice for Saintess and would bring endless calamity upon the world.

The bloodstained white robe was swallowed by the forest's darkness. Strange visitors from another world appeared before her. They were full of energy and curiosity, with an endless passion for conquering lands and changing the world. The future foretold by the Great Prophecy changed from that moment on.

Dragons, monsters, elves, and dwarves all bowed before the Dark Saintess, offering her their loyalty and faith.

The old gods fell, and new gods arose. She commanded both darkness and light, technology and magic. She was the beginning, and the end.

Countless races followed her, and an immeasurable world unfolded beneath her feet. Yet it all began when she picked up... a stone.

Hirya's original followers, who called themselves players, saw things differently:

#The Only Full-Dive Game Where Time Beats Money#

#Gods and Science Coexist, Hirya Is the GOAT#

#Can't Pilot a Giant Robot? Try a Hogwarts Acceptance Letter!#

#Come Out and Take Your Beating, You Lousy Devs! Is Saintess of Light Hirya Only in the Expansion?!#

#And So Today, I'm Still Doing Manual Labor for the Saintess#

[Strong, beautiful heroine, satisfying development story, with one-sided admiration for the heroine]

Theme: Strive to rise in the face of adversity