Cooking for the Troops

Miao Lan transmigrated into a chaotic-times novel as a stand-in cannon-fodder character. In the story, the original Miao Lan looked just like Wei Lin's deceased first love, so the villainous supporting male character Yan Zhao threatened her and sent her to Wei Lin as a substitute spy. That kicked off a love triangle full of anguish between the hero, the heroine, and the female stand-in. In the end, the original Miao Lan's identity as a spy was exposed, and Wei Lin ran her through with his sword. ...Miao Lan was furious! To hell with this clichéd stand-in heroine! She wasn't going to play out a tragedy! Thinking of the original's tragic fate, Miao Lan sold her shop and house, then fled to Longnan with the original's family. . Before long, Wei Lin and Yan Zhao's forces surrounded the small town where Miao Lan was staying. Miao Lan: ...Just destroy the world already! Wei Lin: Perfect. My army's mess kitchen needs help. Yan Zhao: What a coincidence. My army's mess kitchen needs help too. Miao Lan: I can do that. I'm great at cooking for a crowd! She rolled up her sleeves and got to work! . When Miao Lan cooked for Wei Lin's army: Soldiers in Wei Lin's camp: The chili oil noodles smell amazing! The dry-tossed noodles with minced meat are delicious! I ate so much lamb soup with bread I'm stuffed! The pickled long beans with minced pork go so well with rice! Soldiers in Yan Zhao's camp: These dry flatbreads are so hard. Now plain wheat flour just doesn't taste good anymore. I wish I could join the other side. When Miao Lan cooked for Yan Zhao's army: The soldiers in Yan Zhao's camp wiped their mouths and knelt in unison. "Reporting to the general, Chef Miao is one of ours. If anyone tries to take her, we'll kill his whole family and wipe out his entire clan!" Soldiers in Wei Lin's camp: Shameless Yan bandits! Give Chef Miao back! Give her back! In the end, the two armies united, resisting the Rong and Di in the north and driving back the Man and Yi in the south. Together, they fought their enemies and restored the realm. Soldiers: Charge! Kill! The lamb skewers are ours! Protect the cattle and sheep of the northwest! Protect the southern land of fish and rice! Protect our fish in chili oil! Northern Rong and southern Yi: How did the weak and useless people of the Central Plains suddenly get so fierce? Do they have some divine weapons helping them? . Miao Lan had only wanted to quietly work as a cook in the army's mess, then, once the realm was unified, return with her family to their home in the southwest and open a restaurant, settling down to an easy life. But how did cooking lead to her ending up in bed with the villainous supporting male character, Yan Zhao? Still, falling in love with a heroic, handsome, strong, and virile general was just too wonderful. There was just one thing she couldn't understand. Yan Zhao was completely different from the way he was described in the book... Even Wei Lin said Yan Zhao had changed, and the soldiers praised his skill at leading troops as rivaling that of the God of War who had died more than three hundred years ago. [Reader's Guide] 1. A beautiful, clever, and talented cook of a heroine x a reborn God of War who seems aloof but is actually a shameless, roguish rascal of a hero. Both are each other's first. Sweet and satisfying. Neither is the original character. 2. The heroine isn't a powerful, ambitious woman. If you only want to read about a queen focused on her career, this may not be for you. 3. The hero is an aloof general at first, then a roguish soldier later. He talks dirty, but only to the heroine at night. 4. Everything in the story is set up to support the romance between the leads. This foolish author mainly wants to write a sweet love story about the leads supporting each other and getting tangled up together amid the chaos of war. So although there's a food element, the story isn't mainly about the heroine cooking. After all, this isn't a cookbook, it's an online romance novel, and cooking is just one of the heroine's supporting skills. Theme: Be a positive and optimistic person.