Everyday Cooking at the Dali Temple (Food)

Bold, capable, spicy little chef x solitary, cold, loyal guard at the Court of Judicial Review

One day, executive chef Zhu Xiaoguo transmigrates into the body of a pitiful girl whose parents died tragically.

From the start, her family is destitute, her younger siblings are starving, and every relative is craning their neck to take advantage of them...

Zhu Xiaoguo picks up a cleaver.

The words "being bullied" aren't in her vocabulary.

With a few swift chops, peas and coarse rice become pastries she can sell for cash.

She feeds her younger siblings until they're chubby and sends them off to school.

The relatives who came to take advantage of them get a taste of her brand-new bamboo broom.

From peddling pastries on the street to becoming the city's best-known cook, Zhu Xiaoguo has a one-of-a-kind menu that leaves everyone drooling:

Stir-fried lamb offal with oil-fried noodles, sizzling veal and donkey-meat noodles,

Wild onion flatbreads and lamb skewers, buckwheat noodles and sesame rolls.

Fermented sour broth with fish-shaped dough, fragrant braised pig's trotters with layered flatbread and gray bean soup,

Braised lamb with flatbread, liver wrapped in fat, spicy oil-tossed dough cakes and sweet apricot water.

Later, she takes a job at the Court of Judicial Review, a grueling post where she never gets a moment to rest and even the dogs complain. Somehow, it becomes the most coveted job in the capital.

After all, in the entire Yunzhou Prefecture, there's no government office with better food than the Court of Judicial Review!

Liang Zhao, Left Court Judge at the Court of Judicial Review, is a brilliant investigator. Yet he's always aloof and cold, and treats people with little warmth, so everyone at the court fears him.

But at some point, Liang Zhao starts making excuse after excuse to visit the restaurant beside the Court of Judicial Review.

At first, his political rivals say, "Quick, follow him! Liang must have found a new lead. We can't let him take the credit."

Later, when they see Liang Zhao washing dishes for someone, they say, "Oh no. We've become part of Liang's little game."

=Reading Tips=

1. HE, one-on-one romance.

2. An imaginary ancient setting, with food and mystery-solving. Eat well and crack cases at the same time.

3. This story features Northwestern cuisine. It's so good, all thanks to our vast and bountiful land.

Theme: Self-sufficiency