The Little Cook Only Wants to Cook After the Villain Gets Clingy

[Historical romance coming soon: "The Crown Princess Makes Her Guilt Official (Reborn)". Please add it to your favorites!]

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--Story complete--

Su Wan transmigrated into a book and became an overlooked, insignificant side character. She was even forced to work as a cook at the local academy to earn money.

Before long, a rumor spread through town: Fangzhou Academy had a master chef whose every dish was a rare delicacy, leaving people savoring the taste for three whole days.

Su Wan remained modest and composed, cooking delicious food with her ladle in hand through all four seasons.

Three years later, she headed for the capital to make her dream come true.

Everyone said women shouldn't go into business. Su Wan was determined to be the first to do it anyway.

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Chen Zhouxing carried a blood feud and had hidden his identity for years, waiting for the day he could take revenge.

While studying at the academy, everyone said he was cold, had no connections, and wasn't worth befriending.

Then he met Su Wan. For the first time, he let someone get close, only to leave without saying goodbye, hurting her deeply.

Three years later, he was Minister of Justice. Yet when he met Su Wan again, he put his duties aside and hurried to her alone.

When Su Wan saw him again, her face darkened. "Sorry, we're closed."

She paused as she reached to shut the door after he gave her the name he went by now, her heart a muddle of conflicting emotions.

Su Wan: Wait, wasn't the scheming villain in the book called that too?!

Reader's guide:

1. The early chapters focus on daily life at the academy. Later, the heroine goes to the capital to do business, and the hero will pursue his wife.

2. One-on-one romance, happy ending.

3. Lots of original worldbuilding, so please don't overanalyze it!

Coming soon: "The Crown Princess Makes Her Guilt Official (Reborn)". Here's the blurb. If you're interested, please add it to your favorites!

Heroine reborn | Marriage before love

In her previous life, Xu Yijia spent five years as the crown princess everyone envied, only to be imprisoned for a crime and given poisoned wine.

She clutched the charges claiming that the Crown Prince had accused her of having an affair with a powerful official, and knelt in prison, crying out that she was innocent.

Reborn, Xu Yijia saw that the Crown Prince was no good man. She left the capital and headed west, hoping to get away from trouble.

Unexpectedly, while living in seclusion in a mountain city, she met that powerful official again and was dragged into a struggle at court.

When Xu Yijia returned to the capital, the Crown Prince's betrothal gifts arrived at her home the moment she stepped through the door.

In a desperate bid to think of a solution, she wrote a letter and sent it to the residence of the powerful official who had escorted her back to the capital.

Once she received his reply, Xu Yijia hurried to the Eastern Palace to apologize.

The sight of a beautiful woman in tears was pitiful, and the Crown Prince was deeply moved. She sobbed out her true feelings:

"I must confess, Your Highness. Commissioner Wen and I are in love, and we have already pledged ourselves to each other. Please forgive me and find another woman."

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Wen Shaoheng was born into a family of generations of officials. Clever and calculating from a young age, he wanted nothing beyond a place among the Three Excellencies.

To secretly help the Second Prince ascend the throne, he volunteered to serve as commissioner in the mountain city and investigate a case involving the Crown Prince's maternal uncle embezzling and abusing his power.

Unexpectedly, he accidentally dragged Xu Yijia, whom he had just met, into the succession struggle.

Wen Shaoheng felt guilty. After escorting Xu Yijia back to the capital, he immediately agreed when she asked to marry him to get out of her engagement to the Crown Prince.

He had no interest in romance anyway. He might as well repay her kindness.

But after they married, a delicate beauty joined his household, and Wen Shaoheng acquired a new wish for the rest of his life:

To grow old together with his wife.

[A clever, enchanting beauty x a cool, dignified powerful official]

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A little scene

One day after their wedding, Wen Shaoheng grew curious and asked Xu Yijia how she had persuaded the Crown Prince to break their engagement and let her marry him.

Xu Yijia froze, her cheeks turning red. "I tricked His Highness the Crown Prince and told him that my husband and I had been in love for a long time, and that I would marry no one else."

Wen Shaoheng's smile grew as he put an arm around her. "I had no idea your feelings for me ran so deep. To make your lie come true, I'll make up for all the love I owed you in the years before we married."

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Reader's guide:

1. Happy ending, one-on-one romance.

2. The heroine was the Crown Princess before being reborn, but isn't after.

3. Marriage before love, mainly romance, with some court politics.

4. Set in an imaginary world with lots of original details. Please don't overanalyze it!

Theme: Hard work and perseverance