A Seat in the Ashen Zhang

Everything in the world has its own flavor. Some taste sweetness, others savor bitterness, but all Shen Huaichuan can taste is hunger. Across seven volumes of eerie twists and turns and four hundred and ten chapters, he wakes beside a dry well in Huizhang Village and slowly makes his way into the vast kitchen that is heaven and earth. Every dish has a name, every name is a debt, and he was never supposed to be on the menu. Seven guiding hands, seven masters of flavor, and a ledger of eternal punishment. He thinks he is fighting back, yet with every choice he takes one step closer to the dining table. When his fingers turn into chopsticks, when memory becomes his only anchor, and when the world begins to devour itself, he finally understands: to exist is to be tasted, and resistance has always been part of the rules. “You think you're saving people? No, you've been a chef all along.”