The Black Lotus Strategist Cooks for Me

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"Blurb"

Gentle but strong-willed fishing-type top Ji Qingfeng x outwardly tough but inwardly weak black-lotus bottom Fu Tianwen.

After being reborn, Fu Tianwen makes three dishes infused with the emotions of his three lifetimes.

These three dishes combine the skills he had before he transmigrated, the tangled love and resentments he accumulated after transmigrating, his calm acceptance of another chance at life after being reborn, and the System Miaomiao's culinary bonus.

The first dish is "Three Layers of Yang Pass," a farewell dish. Fu Tianwen intends to send off Shen Chisu, the strategist who incited Prince Chang to rebel in his previous life and plunged the Great Qing into turmoil.

Old Shen gazes at the golden, three-layer chicken tower, considering it for a long time and savoring it at length... He struggles between a life adrift and a future with good food and drink, then resolutely packs up and retires to seclusion.

But just as Fu Tianwen carries the dish out the door, he sees Prince Chang arrive, surrounded by a grand procession. He hears the prince bow and clasp his hands in greeting: "Worthy Fu, I have come to ask you to leave seclusion and lend me your aid."

In his previous life, Prince Chang couldn't cross the river. Later, he proclaimed himself emperor right in the government offices of the Nanxuan Circuit, only to have his chair collapse under him because he was too fat...

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Fu Tianwen's second dish is called "Farewell, My Concubine," an allegorical dish.

Shen Chenxi holds up his chopsticks and looks at the dish, where "the chicken is below and the turtle is above." He asks softly, "Is the one underneath a hen?" [That big red comb doesn't look like a hen's. Is that turtle riding a rooster!?]

Fu Tianwen's eyes gleam as he replies quietly, "Aren't the generals' ranks full of roosters paired with turtles these days? If things go on like this, will anyone even fight the war?"

Shen Chenxi: I can't help feeling like you just insulted me too...

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Fu Tianwen carefully prepares the third dish, "assorted fried rice with a bowl of squab soup." It is a dinner that symbolizes reunion after a long separation and the hope that they will always be together.

Ji Qingfeng sets down his clattering abacus and looks at the rich, harmonious stew before him. With an arched brow and a half-smile, he says, "The physician says squab nourishes the kidneys. Are you trying to build me up because of last night...?"

Fu Tianwen falls silent for a moment, then looks down at Ji Qingfeng's long, smooth fingers resting on the abacus beads. "My dear... from now on... at night, if you... feel like it... you can come to me."

Ji Qingfeng presses his lips together with a smile and lifts Fu Tianwen's chin, which has drooped to his chest. "Silly Awen, why do you always keep your head down? If you keep doing that, how am I supposed to see that it's you?"

"My dear..." Fu Tianwen looks at the man who was like a cat in his previous life and is now a tiger. His face is shy, but inside he is unbearably proud.

#In my previous life, I was covered in mud. You gave me food and a roof, and pulled me out of the abyss. You gave me a future, and I will send you to the heights of heaven.#

#In this life, the spring breeze brushes the balustrade. You are in the courtyard, and I am outside the door. Every encounter is a lucky charm I have woven for you. You call it the Heart-Locking Pouch.#

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Content warnings:

1. After being reborn, it's a one-on-one romance. The male lead has strong arms but a soft, delicate constitution.

2. The main story is... farming, with nation-building as the side plot!

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Please add my historical danmei novel The Immortal Venerable and I Both Refuse to Bend to your reading list, also known as The Heart-Stealing Bamboo Immortal. Visit my author page here: → You're welcome to click!

Naive, heartless little bamboo x worldly and far-reaching Ouyang Xing

A little demon who melts whenever he sees him x an elegant immortal venerable devoted to surviving his tribulation

For hundreds of years, Ye Qingzhu has lived in the depths of the Bamboo Sea. An ordinary nan bamboo, the most common kind in the Bamboo Realm, he somehow became a spirit against all odds.

Moved by the Dao, this extraordinary bamboo rustles out of the forest. Following an unseen guiding force, he makes his way along the sheer cliffs of the inner sea, traveling upstream. As straight and resilient as his nature, he crosses the boundary between the eastern and western continents and reaches the mortal world.

Bamboo has no heart, but it can't help growing unexpected branches.

Ye Qingzhu hides in a little bamboo grove outside the window of a school. Day after day, he listens to a magnetic voice calmly reading passages he can't understand. As time goes by, his empty bamboo heart fills with memories of Ouyang Yan.

Bamboo glistens after fresh rain; the mountains are lovely in the evening sun.

When will the candle be lit? Let us share the red bridal curtains.

#Ouyang Yan has wandered the vast world, intending to spend his remaining years by rivers and seas. But one day, a hollow-hearted bamboo spirit clings to him, and from then on, they travel the world together. You show me the way, and I give you my heart.#

#Bamboo has no heart. Only because you were the one I met did my bamboo heart sprout threads of love.#

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1. Completed historical danmei novel: May You and I Find Sweetness in the Fields, also known as Reborn Childhood Friends Defy Fate and Change Their Destiny. Xianxia. #You trapped me in an immortal journey for half my life. I wagered mine to give you a new life.#

2. Completed historical danmei novel: Sharing a Pillow with You as Our Tails Entwine, also known as The Demon Clan's Little Disciple of the Underworld King. Immortal and demon romance. #You gave me freedom across the seas, and I gave you all my devotion. Alas, it was sacrificed to the path of the underworld.#

Theme: May the land remain peaceful and the whole world safe.