The Great Chef Begins in an Exile Novel

Jiang Qingyan had worked diligently at the Time and Space Bureau for five hundred years. But because the male lead favored his unrequited love, she was sent right back to square one overnight, and had to restart every quick transmigration mission.

Fine, back to square one it is. Only this time...

Jiang Qingyan had reached enlightenment. She no longer cared how her missions turned out.

As long as she got to eat delicious food, she'd be happy to stay trapped right where she was for a hundred years.

She couldn't help it. Jiang Qingyan had held back for far too long. She might be no good at anything else, but she sure loved good food.

She'd thought that after working hard for five hundred years, she could retire and enjoy all the food she wanted.

But now that she'd failed her missions, why keep holding back? She might as well roll up her sleeves and fend for herself.

Jiang Qingyan decided that if she wanted a pot of delicious fish stew, she had to start by making a good fish trap and catching a big, plump fish from the winter river.

And so...

[On the road in an exile story]

The heroine was busy getting close to the future male lead, sparing no expense to hire a merchant caravan to follow them along the way. They had everything they could want to eat and wear.

Jiang Qingyan, meanwhile, said nothing. She just kept weaving her fish trap, thinking about what to make with the big, plump fish she was going to catch.

Should she make a bubbling hot fish stew, or crispy grilled fish, crisp on the outside and tender inside?

But somehow, the exiles who should have been on the male and female leads' side couldn't help looking over at Jiang Qingyan.

What on earth was that girl cooking? It smelled amazing! They were trying not to stare, but their eyes just wouldn't obey...

[In a story about the imperial court]

The heroine disguised herself as a man and first won the court's favor as a talented scholar. Later, even after her identity as a woman was revealed, she was still praised as proof that women were no less capable than men, and remained highly esteemed at court.

Jiang Qingyan, who had worked hard to pass the examinations openly as a woman, had talent enough to impress the world, yet no one at court valued her. No one cared, including Jiang Qingyan herself.

She was on her way to court, holding a freshly baked flatbread in one hand and two fresh mitten crabs she'd bought from a fisherman's child in the other. She was wondering which corner of the Ministry of Revenue she could set up a little stove in, so she could make a meat-stuffed flatbread with crab roe and crab meat.

And so... a group of officials who had just returned to the Ministry of Revenue couldn't help sniffing the air frantically. Who was cooking? Why did it smell so good?

Theme: There is no problem that a delicious meal cannot solve