What Happened to the Gourmet Anime?

You transmigrated into a food game.

Good news: You're the most beloved princess in the State of Chu, so you don't have to toil away farming just to get ingredients.

Bad news: The System is only good for farming.

Eight months after starting your life over,

you realized you had also been handed the script of a palace intrigue story about keeping a low profile. Here's the evidence:

1. Your father is a bear king who calls himself a barbarian and spends most of the year raiding all over the place. He has more beauties in his harem than you can count on two hands.

2. Your mother is a noble princess in her second marriage. Her first husband was killed by your bear of a father, and she now has all his love and attention, making her utterly unrivaled.

3. Your grandmother may have retired, but she took custody of your eldest brother and has always been at odds with your mother.

4. Your bear of a father's eldest son, your biological older brother who was taken from you, has never gotten along with your family.

Then one day, an envoy from your mother's homeland arrived and cursed your father in open court. That's when you realized your story was far bigger than you had thought.

Because you firmly believe that in a family where the grandfather killed his nephew and launched wars, the grandmother commanded armies and launched wars, the father stole wives and launched wars, the eldest brother killed his younger brother and launched wars, and the second eldest brother murdered his older brother, launched wars, and stole his niece by marriage, the child who grows up amid all that palace intrigue should at least start out as King of Chu.

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No one ever expected that Ji Mi, who first became known for her appetite and later for her discourtesy among the feudal lords, would pass over her two older brothers, step by step ascend to the highest position in Chu, become a female ruler who dominated her corner of the world, and establish a reign of peace for generations to come.

Xiong Xi, in an interview: You might not believe me, but I really did all this because I wanted to become a learned gourmet. (wipes away tears)

A little reminder:

* An old-school transmigration from the womb story, mostly focused on everyday life and growing up.

* The official husband is a capable partner she snatched for herself (yes, yes, just like her father). Also known as The Food Show, But It Starts with Clearing Land and I Became the Mightiest Lord Through the Farming System in a Food Game.

Theme: Anyway, eating comes first.