Your Highness Keeps Showing Up for Meals

Su Wan, an accountant, was ruined when her fiancé and best friend teamed up to frame her. When she opened her eyes, she had become the second daughter of the Su family in Qingxi Village, who had just been jilted and thrown herself into the river. Her family was dirt poor: her father had a leg injury, her mother was meek, her eldest brother had strength but nowhere to use it, and her little sister had missing teeth and was always crying that she was hungry. On top of that, there was a vampire-like uncle’s family and a former fiancé who held a grudge against her. Fortunately, she knew how to keep accounts, wield a wok, and get along with people. She boiled salt, made soap, opened a braised-food shop, and organized the whole village into a pig-farming cooperative. Her business reached the prefectural city. One rainy night, at her braised-food stall, she also happened to pick up a “down-and-out scholar.” Young Master Shen came by to mooch meals every day, paid absurdly well, and whenever trouble arose, there was always a blade at his side. She had no idea that the man eating at her table was the Third Prince of the Great Jing, a man everyone feared. On his first day mooching meals, he took a liking to the food. On his hundredth, he took a liking to the cook. Only in the end did Su Wan realize: the man she had picked up wasn’t a scholar, but half an empire.