My Fantastic Chef Wife
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- #19
OK, I don't know if any of you guys have been reading the raws up to the latest chapter, but I gotta vent. If there's one thing that annoys me about this author, it's that she has this habit of creating a conflict out of nothing just because. I'd imagine she felt maybe the story is going a bit slow and needed something to spice things up. The pacing can sometimes be out of wack. For example, in chapter 367 she already gave birth to a second child and suddenly 5 years have passed. Between 368-373, the rebellion had been squashed and a new Emperor has taken the throne (this is the seventh prince, Li Chengru, who has a good relationship both MC and Xiao Baoshan. He initially hated Baoshan cuz he thought Baoshan schemed to have the 4th prince killed. Was also one of the guy who crushed on MC.)
Anyway, get this... a couple of chapters later Baoshan and MC got sent to the northern border again (this is the same location Baoshan got sent to help Yan Ziyan, who started as a Robin Hood figure, who later got drunk on power and rebelled. The very same guy who later invaded and took over the capital) because there's nobody capable stationed there. There are a lot of poor people there so Baoshan and MC proactively helped out the citizens and reclaim a lot of lands from 4 big landowner families who treat their tenant farmers as slaves.OK, cool, so you'd guess this would be a good time for the author to maybe flesh out MC flexing her modern business knowledge or whatever to help the locals like she did before. Nope, immediately MC got kidnapped by spies from the northern country for being stupid, and in the next chapter... Baoshan got lied to by the enemy general who ordered the kidnapping. He told Baoshan that he ordered men to gangrape MC, torture her, and killed her, which of course didn't happen. If we're going to go through an arc where Baoshan ended up being a broken drunk because of this lie, I'm going to bang my head against the desk.
Again, I really hate this about the author. It doesn't seem like the author has everything planned out in the beginning. It just looks like she's just writing as things as she go along. There's a moment that I thought she's going to wrap things up. I mean, really, she tied a lot of loose ends with Li Hongmei, Baozhu, Baofeng, the Emperor, and the Xiao brothers & their wives. Suddenly we're off to a new arc? I don't get it.
Anyway, get this... a couple of chapters later Baoshan and MC got sent to the northern border again (this is the same location Baoshan got sent to help Yan Ziyan, who started as a Robin Hood figure, who later got drunk on power and rebelled. The very same guy who later invaded and took over the capital) because there's nobody capable stationed there. There are a lot of poor people there so Baoshan and MC proactively helped out the citizens and reclaim a lot of lands from 4 big landowner families who treat their tenant farmers as slaves.OK, cool, so you'd guess this would be a good time for the author to maybe flesh out MC flexing her modern business knowledge or whatever to help the locals like she did before. Nope, immediately MC got kidnapped by spies from the northern country for being stupid, and in the next chapter... Baoshan got lied to by the enemy general who ordered the kidnapping. He told Baoshan that he ordered men to gangrape MC, torture her, and killed her, which of course didn't happen. If we're going to go through an arc where Baoshan ended up being a broken drunk because of this lie, I'm going to bang my head against the desk.
Again, I really hate this about the author. It doesn't seem like the author has everything planned out in the beginning. It just looks like she's just writing as things as she go along. There's a moment that I thought she's going to wrap things up. I mean, really, she tied a lot of loose ends with Li Hongmei, Baozhu, Baofeng, the Emperor, and the Xiao brothers & their wives. Suddenly we're off to a new arc? I don't get it.
- #20
Holy moly... what a development! The capital got invaded by the rebel army (unrelated to Xiao Baoshan and co, although he was once forced to assist the rebel general to repel the invasion at the border), The Emperor fled, but the Imperial Tutor never got the chance and was killed during the invasion. Empress Dowager killed herself soon thereafter. I feel kinda bad reading this, despite all terrible things she did to MC, she did try to repent and eventually helped MC & Baoshan escape the capital. Had she not helped them escape, Baoshan would still be at the capital and would most likely be able to deal with the rebel army. MC got pregnant soon after returning to the Tiangshan tribe (they live there after they were forced to leave their county.) Originally MC wasn't able to conceive due to all the terrible hardships she endured before she was "adopted" by her mother-in-law, but the Empress Dowager invited the imperial physician and somehow had her cured. She then gave birth to a healthy baby boy who was doted greatly by the couple & mother in law. This all happened within... 1 chapter (366, if you're curious)
My gut feeling tells me that we're nearing the end of the story. Right now MC and the Xiao family are under the protection of the 6th and 7th princes. Aside from Baoshan, they have another general called Qian Qi who is loyal to the princes. My memory is a bit hazy, but I do seem to recall that before MC got kidnapped to the capital, MC helped generate a lot of trade business in the tribe, which in turn helped the county where 6th and 7th princes are now in. They have been slowly building their power and it is implied that they will soon took action to quell the rebellion.
I think I now have enough posts that I could post links. If you guys want to check the raws, as mentioned above, you can find it at www.mtlnovel.com. Another source that I like to use is this: https://www.shuhaige.com/110389/ This site is AFAIK updated daily. A word of precaution though, if you plan on MTLing it via phone, be aware that shuhaige has ad banners that range from PG13 to absolutely NSFW.
My gut feeling tells me that we're nearing the end of the story. Right now MC and the Xiao family are under the protection of the 6th and 7th princes. Aside from Baoshan, they have another general called Qian Qi who is loyal to the princes. My memory is a bit hazy, but I do seem to recall that before MC got kidnapped to the capital, MC helped generate a lot of trade business in the tribe, which in turn helped the county where 6th and 7th princes are now in. They have been slowly building their power and it is implied that they will soon took action to quell the rebellion.
I think I now have enough posts that I could post links. If you guys want to check the raws, as mentioned above, you can find it at www.mtlnovel.com. Another source that I like to use is this: https://www.shuhaige.com/110389/ This site is AFAIK updated daily. A word of precaution though, if you plan on MTLing it via phone, be aware that shuhaige has ad banners that range from PG13 to absolutely NSFW.
- #21
I'm reading it mtl now because I have already read all the translated chapters
after a while she will start to also sale pancake or something idk because cold jelly can't be sold in winter but it doesn't sale good since it something that can only be eaten for breakfast
After a while their jelly recipe is stolen by the eldest aunt and she makes her brother and his wife sale it right beside little Ye's stall so then she starts to sale tofu flowers I guess so they don't lose their business and she also starts to cook for a young miss who was heartbroken and won't eat anything except what little ye makes and then she buys or rent a restaurant
and till where i stopped reading there's literally nothing happening between Mc and her husband
after a while she will start to also sale pancake or something idk because cold jelly can't be sold in winter but it doesn't sale good since it something that can only be eaten for breakfast
After a while their jelly recipe is stolen by the eldest aunt and she makes her brother and his wife sale it right beside little Ye's stall so then she starts to sale tofu flowers I guess so they don't lose their business and she also starts to cook for a young miss who was heartbroken and won't eat anything except what little ye makes and then she buys or rent a restaurant
and till where i stopped reading there's literally nothing happening between Mc and her husband
- #24
Found a site with raws up to chapter 194, but currently can't post the link due to forum rules. A lot of things have happened since chapter 171. Ye xiaoxian and co (minus little sister) along with the Liu family fled the Qishan county because it was being invaded by foreign forces. Scholar Wong's family refused to flee and paid the ultimate price. The little sister survived unscathed though and is now reunited with Xiao Baoshan.
Edit: it's on a site called mtlnovel dot com. Should be pretty easy to find via google. Cheers!
Edit: it's on a site called mtlnovel dot com. Should be pretty easy to find via google. Cheers!
- #25
At the start of the novel, Baoshan is a military general that's renowned for his martial prowess. He was schemed during a military campaign and ended up as the sole survivor. The prince he accompanied during the campaign died during an ambush, I think? and since everybody probably thought he was somehow responsible for the total failure of this campaign, he thought maybe he'd just life in peace with his family. He felt guilty leaving his mother and two siblings alone in the village for many years. Anyway, the imperial court needed his help to push back a military invasion at the border, that's why they had MC held hostage.