The Eastern Palace Food Diary (Gourmet)

[Please add my food novel, Border Town Food Chronicles, to your reading list! It's already being serialized.]

[My next novel will be The Beginning of Brocade, a story where the second male lead wins the girl.]

Ning Xinxin transmigrates and becomes a princess sent to marry a sickly crown prince to bring him good fortune. She even jumps out of the wedding carriage in a failed attempt to break off the engagement, making a public spectacle of herself.

Her in-laws dislike her, the powerful look down on her, and the common people despise her. As for her husband... he hasn't said anything, but he's terribly ill.

The one consolation is that she brought along a food-ingredient System.

Ning Xinxin sighs and picks up her wok, hoping to make something delicious so her husband will eat a few more bites.

He's a powerful backer, after all. She needs to keep him on her side.

Later on...

The emperor's strong, aromatic coffee, twice as invigorating, replaces the strong tea he used to drink while reviewing memorials at night.

The raw melon seeds the empress used to snack on while watching opera are replaced by milk tea and popcorn.

The noblewomen of the city eagerly await another chance to enjoy afternoon tea at the crown princess's residence.

The common people also line up outside her restaurant.

The sickly crown prince Liang Yanzhao, once rumored to be at death's door and unable to keep food or water down, now has rosy cheeks and follows her around, pleading, "Xinxin, I want Beef Wellington today."

Ning Xinxin: "I've told you a thousand times, don't order such a complicated dish every day... Wait there, I'll make it now."

Of course I'll spoil my own husband!

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Liang Yanzhao knows he won't live long and never approved of the political marriage. He prepared a divorce letter long ago. But ever since Ning Xinxin married him, both his health and his mood have improved day by day, and he has never again thought of giving up on life.

One day, someone catches him secretly burning the divorce letter...

Ning Xinxin: "Didn't you say you wouldn't hold me back and would let me go?"

Liang Yanzhao: "Xinxin, your husband regrets it..."

[Goofy little ray of sunshine × gentle, sickly crown prince]

1. An alternate world, very alternate, with lots of original worldbuilding. Don't scrutinize the details.

2. A sweet story about falling in love after marriage, with lots of eating, drinking, and romance. One-on-one, happy ending.

3. Most of the traditional Chinese medicine information and recipes in the story come from the internet, with a few based on personal experience.

Coming Soon

Xun Yuetang is a thousand-year-old plate spirit who loves studying cooking and reading storybooks.

After finishing a tragic novel where every character gets a bad ending, she transmigrates into the book as a cannon-fodder character who dies in place of the heroine. While trying to avoid the plot, she tumbles down a mountain and is rescued by a handsome young officer.

To repay him and stay alive, she remains in the military camp as a cook. In addition to preparing meals for the troops, she loves making special dishes for the young officer.

But one day, she discovers that this young officer is none other than the cruel, ruthless villainous general from the book, Xie Feng!

Already in love with the young officer, Xun Yuetang sighs helplessly. "I can't help falling for him when he calls me Little A-Tang~"

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Since the villain isn't really a villain, she certainly can't remain cannon fodder!

With her exceptional cooking skills, Xun Yuetang goes from camp cook to restaurant owner, and eventually becomes the richest person in the province.

She has only one thought as she works her way up: Make sure Xie Feng wins and stays alive!

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Xie Feng comes from a distinguished family, but his past is shameful and his childhood dark. The blame etched into his very bones follows him everywhere.

From a top-ranked scholar attending a banquet in the imperial gardens to a great general who slaughters his way across the battlefield, he has always felt that life holds little meaning.

But the girl he met when they were young will act coquettish with him, cry for him, make clothes for him, and serve him food.

She shows him that life can, after all, be so vivid.

[Resilient in public, a crybaby in private, little cook × great general who tries every day to learn how to be in love]

Theme: Love and good food can heal the heart.