The Junior Minister of the Court of Judicial Review's Little Cook

A new novel is now available next door: After I Was Ordered to Marry My Archrival A cross-dressing girl chef x a man too busy to eat Food, investigations, and romance (to avoid spoilers, it's best not to read the comments) When Tang Xiaohe first arrived in the capital, she had two goals in life: "Become the head chef at Tianxiang Restaurant." "Get a golden kitchen knife bestowed by the emperor." Then she was dragged into a murder case and locked up for half a month by the Court of Judicial Review's vice minister as a "person of interest." By the time she got out, she had completely missed the hiring period at Tianxiang Restaurant. Tang Xiaohe turned dark. Her goals in life became: "Poison that crooked official Song Heqing." "Poison that crooked official Song Heqing." "Poison that crooked official Song Heqing." As the saying goes, illness enters through the mouth. Tang Xiaohe thought the capital was too dry, so she set out to give Song Heqing mouth ulcers. Today, she made mapo tofu; tomorrow, extra-spicy dry noodles; the day after, some fiery rice crackers... Half a year later, Lord Song had gained a good deal of weight. Worse still, Tang Xiaohe realized Song Heqing hadn't gotten any mouth ulcers. Instead, the way he looked at her had grown increasingly smoldering. * A fire breaks out at the Ministry of Justice, and the Court of Judicial Review gets caught in the crossfire. All the cases end up in the hands of Song Heqing, who has just taken office. Faced with cold cases and unsolved mysteries, Song Heqing searches tirelessly for the truth. Faced with corrupt officials, Song Heqing meets them with a cold stare. When it comes to examining corpses and verifying evidence, Song Heqing leads by example. When it comes to delicious food, Song Heqing... throws up. A subordinate brings him a bowl of hot-and-sour noodles, specially made by the new chef, Tang. Song Heqing: "It looks so greasy! Even a dog wouldn't eat it! Take it away!" Song Heqing: "The flavor's so strange. Give me another bite." #A real man dares to admit his wife is delicious Coming soon: Marrying the Sharp-Tongued Invalid to Bring Him Good Fortune Sharp-tongued, cynical invalid x kind, optimistic ray of sunshine The leads are seven years apart. There is no romance between them before the heroine comes of age. When Zhou Shao'ai was ten, her family fell on hard times, and her father sold her to a wealthy local family as a child bride to bring good fortune to their sick son. On her first day at the Li family mansion, she cried the whole way there. The matron leading her tried to comfort her earnestly. "Actually, our eldest young master is a catch you couldn't find even with a lantern. He's tall and slender, with a pale, fox-like face. He's kind-hearted, and a good person, too. It's just that he's in poor health, and his mouth is..." A bright red cherry fell from the sky and landed right on Zhou Shao'ai's head. She looked up and saw a boy lounging in the cherry tree to escape the heat. He wore snow-white Yuhua brocade. His lean, pale face looked as beautiful and delicate as a moon amid the brilliant red blossoms. He seemed too lovely to be mortal, and too cool and remote to be mortal as well. Zhou Shao'ai stared at him, forgetting to cry. Then he opened his mouth and said: "Whose little radish stump is this?" * Li Wenxian had been a sickly boy with a gloomy disposition since childhood, and he never had a kind word for anyone. His family didn't like him much. By the time he turned seventeen, he clearly wasn't going to last. His parents made a token effort to help him, arranging for him to take a child bride with an exceptionally compatible birth chart, hoping she would bring him good fortune. The child bride was delicate and prone to tears, and incredibly naive. She believed everything people told her, and could be lured away in the street with a single candied hawthorn skewer. Li Wenxian couldn't stand the sight of her. Later, his family was destroyed, and the once-noble young master became a stray dog everyone wanted to kick. All he had left was the little child bride, and the two of them had only each other. His old enemies and new foes were all waiting for him to die so they could devour his increasingly beautiful young wife. To protect that little bit of innocence in his wife, the very thing he had always despised, he clung to his last breath, studied for the imperial examinations, and learned to curry favor with the powerful. He schemed his way through life. Against all odds, he turned a wretched life into one of success and glory. Theme: Neither beautiful people nor delicious food should ever be let down.