A Little Eatery by the Canal: The Laid-Back Chef Becomes a Tycoon!

[Radiant, breathtaking chef heroine x scheming, picky older man]

Wen Xi, a culinary master, dies suddenly and transmigrates into an adult-oriented historical romance novel, becoming a cannon-fodder maid who has cared for the male lead for three years.

As soon as the male lead recovers, he takes her as a concubine and subjects her to every kind of abuse until she dies.

After transmigrating, Wen Xi decides to stay away from the leads and chooses to be "sent away," hoping to meet Lord Xie, who is rumored to be violent and ruthless, and careless with human life.

Unexpectedly, the steward interferes and sends her straight out of the household.

Now that she is free, Wen Xi decides to return to her old trade and set up a stall and open a restaurant!

Crisp-on-the-outside, soft-on-the-inside sweet osmanthus cakes, soup dumplings with thin skins and generous fillings, richly flavored braised duck, nourishing herbal chicken stew, buttery bread with a heady milky aroma...

From nobles and high officials to wandering knights, people from near and far all long for a taste of her cooking.

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Xie Chen, courtesy name Sui'an, has had an extraordinarily sensitive sense of taste since birth.

One grain of salt too many is intolerable, a little too much spice and he won't touch it, and he cannot even bear to smell anything gamey or fishy.

Yet at a little stall by the Grand Canal bridge, he experiences a comforting flavor unlike anything he has ever known.

The young woman tending the stall is gentle and ethereal, with a beauty that is radiant and otherworldly.

When he learns that she likes scholars, he sets aside his temper and approaches her every day as a "man of letters."

But her reputation keeps spreading, and more and more people appear at her side.

Young gentlemen from noble families, reclusive scholars, high officials, impoverished scholars...

Xie Sui'an can no longer hold back, and immediately goes to find her.

His gaze burns, his tone solemn.

"So, when exactly are you going to give me a title?"