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The Little Chef Who Captured the Emperor's Heart

share time: 2026-02-05 12:37:52

Su Tao, a young chef from Jiangnan, enters the palace as a menial servant to take the blame for her aunt. By chance, she saves Emperor Xiao Zhan—rumored to be cold, unfeeling, and even unable to stomach royal meals—with a bowl of ginger tea when he's unconscious from a cold. To everyone's shock, this ruthless emperor tears up at her home-cooked dishes. It turns out the lotus root dumplings his mother made in his childhood have been his unspoken obsession for twenty years, and Su Tao's skill matches exactly what he remembers. But as their love blooms, palace schemes and court conspiracies pile up: someone accuses Su Tao of "seducing the emperor with food," someone reveals her identity as a "criminal's daughter," and someone even tries to cripple her hands… Just as the emperor is about to skip court for her, Su Tao suddenly disappears—her last bowl of lotus root dumplings holds a secret about his mother, and this secret is tightly tied to the emperor's reign?

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