Food blogger Guan Mingxi transmigrates and wakes up as the legitimate daughter of the Marquis of Feng'en's household.
Always easygoing and unambitious, she touches her beautiful face and decides to take being a rich lady seriously.
Two years later, Guan Mingxi is renowned throughout the capital as a noble young lady of unmatched talent and beauty, and is engaged to the illustrious Seventh Prince, a celebrated war hero.
But just as the wedding day approaches, the real daughter comes knocking. She cries, makes a scene, and threatens to hang herself, making sure everyone knows the truth: Guan Mingxi, the marquis's legitimate daughter, is actually a cook's child!
The heaven-blessed young lady has fallen back to earth. For a time, everyone wants to take a kick at Guan Mingxi while she's down.
Faced with all those hostile stares, Guan Mingxi gives a mocking smile.
I don't even care about being the marquis's daughter!
The once-noble young lady from a marquis's household moves through the bustling streets. Far from being a hidden pearl, she thrives, living freely and brilliantly.
The real daughter dresses up to come laugh at her, but takes just one look and goes home so furious she smashes every piece of porcelain in the house.
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Seventh Prince Li Hengci is unfathomably calculating and cold as ice.
Everyone says his engagement to Guan Mingxi is merely a political marriage to win over the Marquis of Feng'en, without a trace of affection.
Even Guan Mingxi herself believes it.
The day she leaves the marquis's household, Guan Mingxi tears up their betrothal agreement in front of Li Hengci, utterly carefree, and says they should part ways.
But when they meet again, the Seventh Prince no longer looks at her with his former air of indifference. He even leans down from his imposing height to whisper, "Everyone says you're clever. How can you be so dense when it comes to me? Still, I don't mind."
Only then does Guan Mingxi realize that his self-restraint and propriety are just a mask he wears in front of her. Beneath it lie turbulent desires and an obsession so deep that once you're caught in it, there's no escaping.
A gentle yet strong-willed, easygoing cook heroine vs. a cold-on-the-outside, warm-on-the-inside, deceptively black-hearted prince
Reading guide:
1. The heroine is stunningly beautiful and an incredible cook. Though easygoing, she'll gradually rise to prominence.
2. A sweet, slice-of-life romance with a slow build and one-on-one pairing.
3. An alternate world with many original details. This isn't a pure food story.
Recommending friends' novels, both complete and ready to binge. They're amazing!
1. "After Shattering the Void, I Returned to the Modern World" by Cong Bu Shimian: A max-level sword immortal heroine who gets to enjoy her retirement (not really) x a ruthless tycoon from the venture capital world who is a spoiled little princess (not really) [An underdog comeback, feel-good, sweet romance]
2. "The Qing Dynasty's Fortunate Concubine" by Fanke Xiaoyu: Reborn as the Ninth Prince's wife, she chooses growing vegetables over fighting for affection. [A Qing Dynasty farming and food story]
Theme: Using food to heal the heart in adversity and remaining hopeful about life
It's just... Inexplicable and outrageous. Is there not a single person in the entire capital who knows that both girls are innocent in this matter of real and fake daughters? If Guan Ziru hadn't come to the door to make trouble, who would have thought that there was a real and fake daughter? Don't think about how ugly Guan Ziru immediately started to make trouble after knowing about it, and how difficult it would be for the heroine to act after someone like the Hou Mansion knew about it. He also couldn't see that the heroine gave up immediately after knowing about it and had no regrets. She was innocent in the whole thing, but after hearing the rumors, she decided that the heroine was a person with no integrity? Was the reputation of being versatile in the past just a myth? No one thinks for themselves?
Didn't you have any close friends when you were a young lady? Are they all cut off when your identity changes? There's always a fate that you can't bear to part with.
Will the heroine not change her last name when she returns to the Wu family?
The heroine is really a sweetheart
This heroine has to do everything by herself, just cook. How can she even take the job of serving food?
Laughing to death Prince: I don't allow it
Didn't you have any close friends when you were a young lady? Are they all cut off when your identity changes? There's always a fate that you can't bear to part with.
This fake daughter's brain is really bad
This dad is too confused. He dares to agree to anything when he drinks.
The real daughter, first of all, the fake daughter must have taken advantage. After all, after more than ten years of living and enjoying life, the real daughter is suffering. However, the real daughter in this article has given up her position and has nothing to do with the Hou Mansion. If the fake daughter is rushing to calculate, there will be a big problem. Even if she had not been replaced, she would not have grown up like the heroine.