The Spicy Little Pepper of the Mountain City and Her Mysterious Landlord

When I got laid off and dumped, then returned to Chongqing to inherit a hot pot restaurant on the verge of going under, I realized my biggest enemy wasn’t the terrible business. It was the “out-of-towner” landlord upstairs, who haggled in fluent Chongqing dialect. And he seemed to be hiding a secret capable of turning the entire Sichuan-Chongqing food scene upside down.