Little Flower Fairy Restaurant

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After she transmigrated, Hua Ming found herself with a chef for a father and a childhood betrothal.

Her betrothed was wonderful in every way except that he was frail, jealous, and secretly used his sickly beauty to keep her tied to him.

Hua Ming: "I'll marry you, but I want to open a restaurant. I keep the money, and we won't consummate the marriage."

Chi Xue smiled faintly. "As you wish."

Everyone in town said Hua Ming was a culinary goddess, even better than her father.

Coke-braised chicken wings, shrimp with salted egg yolk, sukiyaki, omurice, taro ball slushies: no one in town had ever seen any of these dishes.

Her Little Flower Fairy Restaurant was packed every day, with customers lining up faster than tables could be cleared.

Hua Ming spent every day cooking or counting money, though sometimes she thought her family seemed a little strange.

Until one day, her parents-in-law knelt before her. "We welcome the princess home."

Her sickly husband, dressed in a fitted outfit, said, "I will escort the princess to safety first, then atone for my crime with my life."

Hua Ming: "You can die later. Come try a piece of crispy pork first. Open up, ah!"

A forgetful princess and culinary goddess, utterly devoted to her career x a loyal shadow guard who pretends to be sick and loves acting cute

A lighthearted, heartwarming story, with food at the center and the plot on the sidelines. When you eat, eat well.

I'm hoping to start a women-rule-the-world story next, "Husband in Waiting." Please add it to your reading list!

Everyone in Qixia City knew that Xiang Ning, the legitimate son of the Marquis of Jinping, was well-read, handsome, and blessed with a powerful family on his father's side. He had long been promised in marriage to the daughter of the An Guo Marquis. He would inherit a title and enjoy all the wealth and glory he could wish for.

His family's concubine-born son, Xiang Wan, was merely an illegitimate child born to a mistress, scorned by everyone. Only after the old matriarch intervened was he allowed back into the household, where even the lowliest servant looked down on him.

One day, he listened with his head bowed as his legitimate father said, "With your background, it's hard to imagine you making something of yourself. As your father, I have to look out for you. You can serve as Ning's attendant and marry into the An Guo Marquis's household with him. It will be the greatest good fortune you could hope for."

He, too, thought that someone like him ought to be content with that.

But during a spring outing with the noble families, on the day they were secretly sizing up potential matches, he watched the young princess Si Mingyu, a notorious playboy, lean close to the daughter of the An Guo Marquis and then raise an eyebrow at him. "A beauty like this shouldn't be wasted as an attendant. Do me a favor and let me have him as my prince consort, will you?"

Theme: Good food makes the world a better place.