Live-Streaming Gourmet Food to a Sickly Villain

[Bonus extras dropping now~ The new novel, The Brocade Carp Chef of Bianjing, is now available. Upcoming novels: The Treacherous Minister’s Pig-Raising Livestream, The Brocade Carp’s Eerie Chef of Chang’an, and After Offering Herself to the Young Lord of Miaojiang. Preorders: Winning Over My Brocade Carp Immortal Chef Master and My Cool, Beautiful, Flirtatious Master. Please add them to your collections~]

Food blogger Xu Wan transmigrates into a power-struggle novel as a cannon-fodder concubine-born daughter, destined to die a tragic death at the hands of an infatuated emperor. Forced to marry her legitimate elder sister’s place and bring good luck to a sickly man from a fallen family, she vows to turn her life around and grind this tragic ending to dust.

Her family is so poor they can barely afford to eat. Xu Wan wakes before the chickens and goes to bed after the dogs, livestreaming her street-food stall as she builds a fortune: hot pot, rice, and big-plate chicken; medicinal pork rib and crucian carp soup; a full banquet of pig-killing dishes for a ghost wedding; sword-dance food carvings and the viral dance challenge...

The beautiful, sickly Shen Ciyu has an eye condition. Dressed in white as bright as snow, he carries a pale oil-paper umbrella made of emerald bamboo all year round. Smooth white silk covers his eyes, making him as beautiful and fragile as a porcelain doll.

The viewers in the livestream are stunned by his looks and turn into shrieking fangirls: “Ahhh, paradise for pretty-boy lovers!”

But as the livestream goes on, its style takes an unexpected turn. How did a cooking livestream become a sweet daily show of a doting couple?

Her husband, who lives on medicine, fans her in summer and warms her bed in winter. What should he do after accidentally biting the lotus-flower pastry right out of his wife’s mouth?

He has eight-pack abs and a cane, and won’t let anyone bully his wife. But what should he do when he bullies her with jealous kisses?

To keep people from gossiping and meet his baby-making KPI, he’s set his sights on having a baby with his wife. What should he do?

The livestream viewers are swooning: “I’m waving the flag for the Yu-Wan CP! Give us more, more, more!”

Hearing the viewers cheer them on, Shen Ciyu decides to work even harder: harder at clinging to his wife so they can... sooner.

Xu Wan knew from the start that Shen Ciyu was the original story’s villain, the third prince. After being betrayed and used, he was blinded when countless swords pierced his body. He failed to win the succession struggle, barely escaped with his life, and ended up in Xiushui Village.

During a famine, Shen Ciyu lured a pack of wolves away by himself. When no one was around, he killed a vicious wolf with a ruthless stab, its blood splashing across his face. Then he saw his little wife rushing toward him, eyes red with worry, and throwing herself in front of him to protect him.

He quietly hid his knife, surprised for a moment, and thought that his wife must care about him too.

After fighting his way through the pack, Shen Ciyu lay on his wife’s back. His gentle, dewy eyes, like a fawn’s, were filled with one person. Turning his head slightly, he blushed and asked, “From now on, can we always stay together?”

Xu Wan only felt sorry for the little blind man. Afraid that the villain might turn evil and kill her, she could only nod against her conscience.

Preorder: The Brocade Carp Chef of Bianjing

The Brocade Carp Restaurant opened its doors. Its delicious food, fragrant spices, and promise of good luck spread throughout Bianjing, with everyone passing the word along.

Radish and dried orange peel fish, prepared the traditional way; pork bones from Dongmen with fermented sauce and orange shallots.

Lion-shaped milk candy made using traditional methods; shepherd’s purse meat soup and red silk pancakes.

During the founding war against the enemy, Prince Dongping Xiao Yuchen turned the tide through his own efforts. His body was left covered in terrifying sword and knife scars. Afterward, he wore a mask with a green face and tusks to hide his ugly appearance, and his furious temper made no one dare provoke him.

Xiao Yuchen had a strange personality and a wicked tongue. When he first met Shen Li, a farm girl who cooked for a living, he said, “Your food is awful and you’re a shrew. Whoever marries you will have the worst luck for eight lifetimes!”

Shen Li, a master chef who had transmigrated to the Song dynasty, snapped back angrily: “Your Highness, you’re so powerful and high-ranking, of course I wouldn’t marry you. But you’re so boring that any woman who marries you would be miserable!”

To her surprise, that very evening Shen Li was reclaimed by the marquis’s household. On their wedding night, she slapped Xiao Yuchen in the face and stole his luck. From then on, misfortune followed him everywhere, and he never stopped giving Shen Li a hard time.

To steal back his luck, Shen Li shamelessly began taking liberties with him: touching those big hands crisscrossed with scars, hugging her tough-talking, soft-hearted baby husband, and racking her brains every day for excuses to cuddle up to him

The beautiful big sister and the immortal mother-in-law, the Dowager Consort, always take Shen Li’s side: if their daughter-in-law is in trouble, they protect her! If their son acts like a jerk, they beat him! If the restaurant needs help, they pitch in!

Xiao Yuchen was violent by nature, yet whenever his wife touched him, his heart skipped a beat. And when she earnestly praised his scars as a source of national pride, he turned into the softest little kitten.

All the noblewomen in the capital mocked Shen Li as a crude country girl, but amid their jealous stares, the Prince of Dongping cherished her as if she might break or melt away, indulging her beyond all reason.

That day, the Prince of Dongping finally let go of his inner demons and removed his mask. With mesmerizing peach-blossom eyes gazing over the world and a breathtakingly beautiful, almost bewitching face, he captivated everyone.

Later, the entire capital was left speechless. They stared at the Prince of Dongping wiping down tables and chairs in the restaurant. Wiping the sweat from his brow, he called sweetly into the kitchen, “Wifey, look, I’m getting better and better at this. Does that mean I can sleep in the bed tonight?”

On a night of raging wind and snow, someone draped a fox-fur cloak over her shoulders and placed a fragrant red plum in her hair. “This flower is for you, miss. May good fortune stay by your side from now on. May you be like a brocade carp, with everything going smoothly!”

Preorder: The Treacherous Minister’s Pig-Raising Livestream

Ye Rou transmigrates into a court-intrigue novel as a widowed woman believed to bring death to her husbands. She livestreams farming and pig-raising her way to wealth: pig intestines turned into slippery, delicious pork tripe; cold pork heart, lungs, and ears; spicy ribs; braised pork in fragrant sauce...

Livestream System: “Bring down the treacherous minister Xie Jingci! Insult him, humiliate him, and ruin his chances of taking the imperial exams!”

Ye Rou: “Did I get a redemption story, or a death-wish story?”

Step one in bringing him down: forcibly marry the engaged Xie Jingci. Tie him to her side first, then figure out the rest!

Ye Rou burst through the door, cleaver in hand. She stared at the frail, deaf-mute treacherous minister with his slim waist and long legs, tears pattering down his face, and drooled from the corners of her eyes. “If I kidnap this beauty, I won’t lose out at all. I’ll be making a killing!”

“From today on, you’re too stupid to study. After we marry, you’re coming with me to raise pigs!”

The livestream viewers were drooling: “Dragging a beautiful treacherous minister off to raise pigs? Are you out of your mind? What a waste of a treasure!”

To everyone’s surprise, the treacherous minister simply wiped away his tears and obediently nodded!

Viewers: “Oh-ho!!!”

Xie Jingci is a ruthless, vicious minister in the novel, born deaf and mute and able to make a living only by studying for the imperial examinations. In his previous life, he endured countless cold stares and swallowed every humiliation on his way to power, only to die tragically with a reputation that would stink for generations.

In this life, Xie Jingci was about to become a lifelong bachelor because no one would marry him. His father arranged a ghost marriage for him, thinking he would spend his life in a daze and repeat his past. But the night before the wedding, a widow who slaughtered pigs forcibly took him away.

A living woman was willing to marry his son! His father had no choice but to hurry up and thank his ancestors before agreeing!

He had a secret no one knew: as Xie Jingci stood by the pigpen, ladle in hand, feeding the pigs, he looked at his wife, who was yelling at him and despairing of his lack of ambition. Little hearts kept popping above his head.

He grinned and gestured, “Okay~”

That spring-breeze smile made Ye Rou blush and her heart skip a beat. She cursed the horrible mission that made her treat her poor little mute this way!

Then her supposedly dead husband suddenly returned. Xie Jingci led troops to surround the imperial city, his eyes red with bloodlust. He clamped her in his arms like a madman, frightening her into promising, “I swear I’ll only ever be with you, for the rest of my life!”

To her surprise, he happily managed to rasp out, “Okay~”

Damn! This conniving minister has latched onto her! She touched her growing belly, though, and still couldn’t figure out how to run away!

Theme: Never give up hope, no matter what.