The Dragon Lady and Her Mute Little Cook

[Complete! Please leave a five-star review] [Next book: *After I Deleted the Late-Night Snack Shop Owner, She Added Me Back*. Blurb at the bottom. Please add it to your reading list, mwah] Before reaching adulthood, every dragon in Fairy-Tale Forest has to accomplish one great deed: find the most beautiful princess on the continent and carry her off. Of course, the princesses are always rescued by knights in the end. But that can't be helped. It's something every dragon has to do. Only after completing this rite of passage can a dragon be considered an adult. As tradition required, the great black dragon successfully abducted the kingdom's princess. But on the way back to Fairy-Tale Forest, he heard what she was thinking: *You ugly beast! When my knight arrives, I'll skin you alive, chop off your wings, and hack off your claws!* After her threats, the princess fell into despair again: *Wah, why am I so unlucky? Why did an evil dragon kidnap me? Am I going to be eaten? Someone, please save me! Wah! You horrible thing, why are you doing this to me?* At the edge of Fairy-Tale Forest, the black dragon hesitated. Did he really have to kidnap the princess? She didn't look very happy... As he hesitated, the princess looked down at the great lake below and suddenly threw herself into it. The black dragon beat his wings, fished her out, and still chose to take her home. As the black dragon sulked by the river, thinking he would never complete his coming-of-age ritual and become human, he went on a rampage, kicking fish into the sky. Then he suddenly heard a soft voice: “It's so cute.” From then on, a dragon who loved glittering jewels and knew only how to hoard treasure found a little girl who could cook delicious food. He began to discover the world's incredible delicacies: fried chicken, fries, candied chestnuts, beef tallow hot pot, and braised pig trotters. Good news: He'd never go hungry again. Bad news: There were too many green-tea dragons nearby trying to steal his food and his princess (angrily clenches fist and kicks them away one by one). The evil dragon who abducts the princess in fairy tales x the food blogger with a damaged voice who cross-dresses = a black dragon girl who can hear people's thoughts x a mute girl who can't speak but can make delicious food *This should be a slice-of-life story about falling in love and enjoying delicious food, perfect for reading before bed. It's an adult fairy tale, and there will be plenty of food, too.* Next book: *After I Deleted the Late-Night Snack Shop Owner, She Added Me Back*: After lying awake at night, too poor to sleep, He Qingxi opened her budgeting app to figure out where all her monthly earnings were going. She wouldn't have believed it if she hadn't seen it. The sky was falling. Her monthly take-home pay after taxes was 8,800 yuan. Two thousand went to her mortgage and eight hundred to her dog. Of the remaining six thousand, a whopping four thousand went on food... And that really did mean food: barbecue, hot pot, little cakes, milk tea, snacks, and so on. The biggest expense was listed in her budgeting app under just five Chinese characters: “Tonight's Leisure Bar.” He Qingxi remembered. It was a late-night snack shop that opened at seven every evening. Whenever the owner opened for business, she'd post tempting food photos and customers' glowing reviews in her social media feed, enticing He Qingxi into placing an impulsive order again and again. The owner also occasionally posted snippets from her daily life, like mirror selfies at the gym showing off her toned abs, a selfie atop a mountain with her collarbones damp with sweat, or a photo on vacation showing off the logo of her luxury car at a toll station. In other words, not only was the shop's late-night food delicious, its owner was also disciplined, beautiful, and rich. When He Qingxi opened WeChat and counted up her transactions with the snack-shop owner, she realized that over the year they'd been connected, she'd spent more than ten thousand yuan on her. In return, she'd gained ten pounds. For the sake of her figure and her wallet, He Qingxi steeled herself and deleted the owner. She thought her wallet would steadily grow fatter as she lost weight. But the next day, the owner suddenly added her back and sent a short message: “Changed your tastes? Got a new owner?” At that moment, He Qingxi inexplicably felt guilty, as if she'd been a regular at one shop, suddenly gone to another, and been caught by the original owner betraying her. Still, she added the owner back and explained that she'd deleted her because she wanted to lose weight. The owner: “I can sell diet meals.” He Qingxi: “?” She was going to have a diet meal at eleven at night? Theme: She doesn't have to say a word. You'll understand her anyway.