When Xia Mingzhu, the youngest genius chef in history, opens her eyes, she finds herself in the body of a young lady with the same name, deep in the late stages of lovesickness, in the Culinary God Continent.
The original owner spent her family's entire fortune showering a man with money and resources, earning her family's hatred. In the end, he cast her aside like trash, and now she's on the verge of being homeless.
Xia Mingzhu: ?
What is love, anyway? Some kind of garbage? Can you eat it? Is it better than happily flipping a wok, or the delicious aroma bursting from ingredients in a pan?
Come on, this is a world where culinary skill reigns supreme! There's a master chef every few steps, a chef king around every corner, and top culinary experts everywhere. With such a perfect environment for honing her cooking, why waste time on romance? What a terrible waste!
First things first: work on her cooking!
She hears that a top culinary academy next door has an entrance exam said to be "hellishly difficult," and that its graduates can become master chefs, one in ten thousand.
Xia Mingzhu rolls up her sleeves. "Let's go!"
Her god-tier tomato and egg stir-fry dazzles everyone, and the school makes an exception to admit her. But she soon discovers that the place is even more brutal than the rumors say: students are culled at the end of every term, and the bottom ten percent are expelled. A student's GPA is their lifeline!
While her classmates obsess over knife skills, she works on recipes. While the teachers compete over heat control, she pursues innovation. In this "Culinary God's Crucible," Xia Mingzhu's cooking skills rise by +1, +1, +1. She goes from the bottom of her class all the way to the top, even making teachers in every subject admit defeat!
After graduating, she returns home and restores her family's glory with her cooking. Then, while traveling, she arrives just as the nationwide culinary competition, held once every ten years, is about to begin.
Xia Mingzhu packs her cooking tools and sets off to hone her skills across the country.
She makes friends through cooking, and uses each dish to forge a connection. She wins people's hearts with food and learns about all kinds of people through a hundred flavors.
From street stalls to the homes of nobles, from being shunned by everyone to attracting all eyes, the once lovesick, good-for-nothing young lady will one day stand at the pinnacle of the culinary world and tell the whole world:
In this world, only good food and yourself are worth cherishing!
Theme: In this world, only good food is worth cherishing
Thank you to heaven, thank you to earth, thank you for your hard work~