The Crown Prince's Daily Cuisine

[Slow Burn | Farming | System | Food | Mysticism | Gossip | Everyday Life] The good news: Li Jin transmigrates into the crown prince! The bad news: He's the crown prince from history, exiled to Yelang, where he dies in despair. Li Jin is afraid of hunger, poverty, and death most of all. To save his own skin, he disguises himself and flees to the southwest. - After awakening a food System, Li Jin thinks his days of lying flat have finally arrived. Alas, there are always people who can't stand to see him living comfortably! He just wants to register his household, but accidentally winds up in jail. Li Jin has no choice but to trade the recipe for kudzu-root noodles for his freedom. Who would have thought the county magistrate would keep an eye on him from then on? Li Jin does his best to get the magistrate hooked on food and farming, keeping him too busy to meddle in anything else. But the man quietly invites Liu Changqing, the prefectural aide of Yizhou, to come see him. They stare at each other. The aide stammers, "Your Highness... Your..." "What a coincidence!" Li Jin takes the initiative, winking and making faces. After he finally talks the aide into leaving, a bigwig from the capital arrives. The bigwig insists Li Jin is selling fake talismans and harming people, and demands a debate on the Dao at Mount Qingcheng. With someone this powerful, Li Jin can only oblige and have a debate (argument) with him. Who could have guessed that an old man he casually meets at Mount Qingcheng would turn out to be Sun Yaoran, the Medicine King! More and more impressive people gather around him. Meanwhile, his reputation grows more and more outrageous. A master of the Dao, skilled in medicine, farming, and invention, a talented chef, the thirteenth-generation heir to the Celestial Masters' tradition, disciple of the Medicine King, and the northern dynasty's Divine Farmer: Li Jin. He doesn't even know he's this impressive. Li Jin is panicking. Maybe he should run away after all. - At first, when the Northern Emperor learns his son used a feint to escape, he wants to beat the unfilial brat to death. Then the Northern Emperor receives one memorial after another from the southwest, each praising the unfilial brat he once dreamed of, the one who disobeyed him and tried to rebel. He hasn't even tasted the food that brat cooks. Hmph, and the boy has gone and become a chef out there. The Northern Emperor travels incognito to Yizhou. But the brat has run away again! - Fleeing overnight for the second time, Li Jin meets an old acquaintance just after setting out. The two travel together, and the more they talk, the more they hit it off. Li Jin cooks while the other man warms the wine. It feels a little like settling into a life together. One time, after drinking too much, Li Jin's gaze grows hazy. "Yanzhou, I always feel like you and I have met before." Wei Yanzhou grits his teeth and takes his hand. "Your Highness, so you've finally remembered me. Your memory really is terrible." Li Jin feels the touch beneath his hand, and his pupils dilate in shock. Th-this... aren't these the very same eight abs he touched when he first transmigrated here? Li Jin is panicking. Can he still run away? --A true-born local and a transmigrated fake son-- --Happy farming and doing business together-- Sixth draft Everyday food and cooking, inspired by the Tang and Song dynasties, but not historically rigorous. Content note: Some supporting characters have romance pairings, but their relationships aren't the focus. The original Tang dynasty setting couldn't pass review for historical reasons, so I've changed it a little. The central premise is unchanged. Sending love. Maybe I'll start in August!! Probably. 20250727 Coming soon: "I'm Not the Male Lead of an Explicit Novel [Quick Transmigration]" Yu Chengqi dies unexpectedly and gets a chance to come back to life. He can transmigrate into various books and change the fate of supporting characters to earn life points. Yu Chengqi agrees happily, only to discover that his System isn't exactly proper. Every book it assigns him is an explicit novel that makes his face burn. The stories are practically all about the intimate details of the male leads meeting in bed. Thank goodness, thank goodness, he's only a supporting character. But when he actually starts following the plot, Yu Chengqi feels things taking a strange turn. --An extremely explicit political intrigue novel-- A remote wilderness, two men alone together. [Ding! Critical mission triggered: Remove the poison from the villain. Mission failure: Erasure!] Yu Chengqi looks at the villain, cheeks flushed and eyes hazy, and shakily reaches out with his right hand. --An extremely explicit post-apocalyptic novel-- [Ding! Critical mission triggered: Take the villain away, comfort him, touch him, and make him feel love and sincerity. Mission failure: Erasure!] Yu Chengqi looks at the villain, his eyes bloodshot and on the verge of losing control, and reaches up to touch his bitten neck. Theme: Build great things by keeping your feet on the ground.