A Taste of Border Town

The food story Records of the Underworld Kitchen is currently updating. My next book will be a historical danmei story with a top protagonist and pregnancy: The Emperor Is Carrying My Baby.

Xun Yuetang transmigrates into a book, becoming an orphan with no parents who is also being hunted. After escaping the plot, she turns her hobby into a career, picks up a wok, and opens a restaurant in a border town.

A bowl of crystal-glazed lamb, tender as silk, with savory broth and delicious meat, makes the restaurant famous throughout the border town.

A plate of rosy goose breast, bright red and pleasantly sweet and sour, helps Xun Yuetang break into the circle of the elite.

A cup of pearl milk tea, rich, creamy, and fragrant, with a lingering aftertaste, gives the restaurant its first branch.

As business booms and the money rolls in, Xun Yuetang soon joins the border town's merchants' guild and takes the top seat.

Her rapid success catches the eye of others, and rumors smearing her reputation flood the streets in a single day: This beautiful young woman is someone's mistress, which is how she's landed so much business!

Who could have guessed that at the officials' banquet in the border town, Prince Dingbei, Xie Feng, seated at the head of the table, would personally stamp his approval: The owner of the Xun family's shop is this prince's betrothed.

The people below: ???

Xie Feng swept his gaze over them and continued: This prince is thinking of holding future official banquets at her establishment. Does anyone object?

The people below were incredibly relieved they hadn't spread any rumors. And then they thought of the delicious food at Xunwei Pavilion...

They nodded like bobbleheads: No, no objections...

1. The heroine transmigrates into a book as an ordinary person. This story has no fantasy elements or supernatural abilities.

2. The setting is very loose, with a jumble of dynasties, ingredients, official titles, and place names, some of them made up.

3. Reincarnated from birth, one-on-one romance, both leads' first time, happy ending.

4. Most recipes in this story come from cookbooks and the internet.

There is a food stall in the underworld that serves the dead their final meal before they pass on.

Every dish costs only one point of merit.

The stall's owner is Wan Niang, a female ghost who died unjustly.

Most ghosts who died unjustly have terrifying faces, but Wan Niang is beautiful, one of the most beautiful in the underworld.

She has been here for a thousand years.

The Great Emperor of Fengdu promised that once she had earned one hundred thousand merit points, she could learn what had become of the one she loved.

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The most fearsome ghost officer in the underworld is named Wuxin. He wears a black robe every day, his face veiled in dark gauze.

Even the most vicious ghosts tremble when they see him.

They say he once had a body of purple gold and a heart of exquisite jade, but later traded them to the Great Emperor of Fengdu.

No one knows what he got in return. The ghosts of the underworld only know this:

When he returns from collecting ghosts, he always takes a seat at the Yellow Springs food stall.

He never eats. He only accepts a cup of tea from Wan Niang

and softly says thank you.

This is perhaps the gentlest Wuxin ever gets.

Disfigured, heartless ghost officer × beautiful, passionate female ghost

Premise: Keep striving to live, even in adversity