A Foodie's Daily Life in the Song Dynasty

A city dweller transmigrates to the Song Dynasty, full of trepidation.

A cook by trade, he earns his first fortune selling spicy pepper soup, then opens a breakfast shop and puts his heart into making a life for himself.

One day, a stall selling spicy pepper soup suddenly appears in the western quarter of the capital. A bowl costs just three coins, or five with meat. It's piping hot, delicious, and affordable.

A bowl in the morning, paired with freshly fried youtiao, is so fragrant it makes you swoon.

The pan-fried buns are bite-sized. Dip them in the soup until they're drenched in broth, and they're absolutely delicious.

Later, when summer arrives, another shop opens, selling icy drinks.

The chewy little rice balls come in all sorts of colors and taste amazing.

Watermelon slush, grape slush, apple slush, banana slush: the flavors are varied and refreshing to the core.

Under the scorching sun, a bowl of slush and a cup of cold drink will cool you right down.

The Imperial Academy has a young, handsome instructor who teaches mathematics. No one can match his skill with the abacus or mental arithmetic, and his problems grow harder every year. He is rigid and stern.

He is well known at the academy, and students go out of their way to avoid him.

Unfortunately, his students' poor grades are no excuse. He even visits their homes, leaving them all in tears!

Nobody knows that he suffers from a poor appetite. His household servants watch him grow thinner by the day and try every trick they can think of to tempt him with food.

Dish after dish is brought to him, but he only takes a few bites before it is cleared away.

One day, during a break between classes, he overhears some students talking about a newly opened breakfast shop. The spicy pepper soup is fragrant and piquant, and it's delicious with youtiao.

The next day, the instructor and his students meet at the breakfast shop.

They stare at one another. The instructor remains composed, drinks a huge bowl of spicy pepper soup, and eats three youtiao.

After Chu Lang transmigrates to the Song Dynasty, he carefully builds a life for himself, opening a shop and earning money until things settle into a routine. Then he suddenly meets an instructor who is exactly his type: young and handsome, with the bearing of a bamboo stalk.

The instructor also loves the food he cooks. Whenever he eats something delicious, his eyes curve into a smile. He's so cute.

Chu Lang decides to use good food as bait and slowly win him over. They start out as friends, then eventually become lovers.

Theme: As a married couple, they work together and put their hearts into building a life.