My Kitchen Connects to the Eastern Palace

[Preorders: Starting Today, I'll Grow Mechs and A Raft from the Start [Doomsday Stockpiling]. Looking forward to your favorites! Blurbs at the bottom.]

Office worker Si Li transmigrates into the legitimate daughter left behind by the late first wife of the Ning Dynasty's chief councilor. Her father cares only about court politics, while her stepmother is sweet-faced but ruthless.

A skilled delivery-food cook, Si Li gives in to the demands of life, picks up a cleaver, and starts working for a God of Cooking System that claims she can change her circumstances once she earns enough points.

[Ding dong, one plate of charcoal: -1 point]

[Ding dong, a bowl of barely edible thin porridge: +0 points]

[Ding dong, a plate of poorly chopped cucumber salad: +1 point]

[...]

After finally earning enough points, Si Li goes from a poor girl waiting to die to the proprietress of Wanglai Ju, a famous restaurant in the capital. She thrives, with heaps of gold and silver, all the delicious food she can eat, and a line of customers long enough to circle the capital three times.

She sleeps until she wakes naturally and counts money until her hands cramp. Her stepmother meekly comes to ask for her help, while her resentful stepsister doesn't dare make trouble.

The only thing that bothers her is Lord Si, who proudly boasts that his daughter has made something of herself, then frowns and says, "You're this old and still unmarried. That's improper!"

Si Li: Hello? Ning, what is your problem? Mind your own business!

Just then, the people of the Eastern Palace arrive at her door with betrothal gifts. The notoriously fierce, arrogant, and cold Crown Prince Jiang Hengyun smiles tenderly at her. "Lili, why didn't you wait for me?"

Si Li: ??? Are we even close?

A monk said that Jiang Hengyun had shed too much blood and should not be approached too closely, so his father, the emperor, erased his military achievements and ordered that he could not appear before him without cause.

He never believed in gods, Buddhas, coincidences, or fate, until dish after dish of food and strange notes appeared out of thin air.

"You cooked it yourself, so even if you cry, you have to finish it."

"There's no way I'm becoming a corporate wage slave. Let someone else enjoy those so-called blessings."

"You should enjoy hot pot even when you're alone, but it might be even more fun with two people."

"..."

The lively words of this mysterious person shattered the lonely facade he had worn for years.

On a cold night, you are my only warmth.

[Si Li, a legitimate daughter and office worker who starts from scratch to become a God of Cooking, x Jiang Hengyun, an iceberg prince who starts from scratch to find someone who cares about him]

Preorder: Starting Today, I'll Grow Mechs

Ye Ran, a wood cultivator, is struck by a lightning tribulation and sent to a mining planet on the verge of being abandoned. Plants are scarce, spiritual energy is thin and chaotic, and she can't directly absorb it into her body. The money in her pocket is only enough to buy a few days' worth of nutrient fluid.

Luckily, she finds a stone rich in spiritual energy at a gambling stall in the mining district. It costs just a hundred!

But Ye Ran, who returns to her old profession of gathering spiritual energy to grow spirit plants, never expected that before long...

The Gemstone Gambling Association waves around wads of cash: "Master, we're short on energy converted from jadeite. Name your price, we're begging you!"

Ye Ran: "Hold on, I was saving that to use as a flowerpot!"

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Netizens camp out for new spirit plants: "I'll trade eighteen years of quick fingers for flowers and vegetables that can regulate mental power and prevent mania!"

Ye Ran: "Wood cultivators know a little alchemy, but I'm really not a healer!"

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The little farm on the abandoned mining planet is lush and green, with flowers blooming everywhere. The Federation's Ecology Department and Agriculture Department arrive together: "Your method for cultivating delicate plants on a large scale is enormously important to the entire interstellar community!"

Ye Ran: "I'm just growing crops and tending flowers!"

The Zerg attack again. Ye Ran, absorbed in her old farming vocation, slowly looks up. "Hey, would anyone like to try the biological mech I just grew?"

From an orphan girl stranded on an alien world's abandoned mining planet to Ye Ran, the jadeite-energy-conversion wizard, the greatest plant master in the interstellar world, and the first to create biological mechs, she looks at the textbook printed with her name and laughs helplessly:

#Wood cultivators really just want to focus on their old profession of cultivation#

#Who knew I'd accidentally revolutionize technology and found a whole new school of thought#

Preorder: A Raft from the Start [Doomsday Stockpiling]

In 2050, after a total solar eclipse, the world is digitized overnight, and Blue Star becomes a disaster testing ground. Faced with rampaging monsters and mutated plants, rapidly rising sea levels, and alternating periods of extreme daylight, darkness, cold, and heat, humanity struggles to survive.

After waking up, Song Tang looks at her rickety little raft and the ugly fish monster on the other side, lost in thought:

Why does this look so much like that ocean survival and scavenging game where I just reached max level and completed the entire collection?!

The good news: She has inherited the complete collection and max-level physical abilities from the game in real life.

The bad news: She's at the very start of the game and has to live on a raft that's less than one square meter, with absolutely nothing on it.

Give back the huge raft villa, the ships, and the crammed-to-the-brim warehouse I worked so hard to build!!!

"Damn it, I've told you already, don't come over here, you slimy fish monster! One poke from my finger could kill you, and then I'd have to wash my hands!"

Theme: Never give up on treatment, no matter what.