The story started with a lot of potential as a father daughter story. Amy starts out cute and a little precocious but towards the end, she becomes a caricature of herself. I suppose Ugly Duckling was going to have is own story arc but that didn't happen. Instead the story went off on a tangent with the harem gathering route, more characters for the sake of more characters. Towards the end, cooking is no longer the main theme, instead it finishes with a James Bond type story where only the MC is involved while Irina, Amy, and all the other characters become stay at home side characters. In the end, guess which country's nationalism raises its head, and makes MC into a god. Hint: Cooking doesn't have anything to do with him becoming a god. Good start but a dismal ending. At least the author tried to tie up loose ends. Would have been good if it had been true to the title, kept up the father daughter dynamic, and created more stories in the restaurant instead of going the standard wuxia route.
Whispering Jianghu
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