The Cooking Princess - Chapter 1

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The Princess Who Cooks

Episode 1

Chloe Garnet recalled her past life memories at exactly twelve years old.

There wasn’t any particular trigger. That trigger was, in fact, a terrible taste that tormented her tongue.

As soon as she took one bite of that food, her head spun dizzy.

‘The taste… is so, so terrible!’

Nevertheless, Chloe did try to somehow eat the food given to her.

Why?

This food was a cake that Chloe’s mother, Millenia Garnet, Duchess, had gotten up at dawn to bake personally to celebrate Chloe’s twelfth birthday!

‘I can’t spit it out.’

With that thought, Chloe struggled to somehow swallow the food in her mouth down her throat.

But despite such efforts, the food that entered her mouth was truly terribly tasteless…

Chloe committed the unfilial act of getting a nosebleed after eating the dish her mother had ambitiously attempted for the first time!

Drip.

“Eek, Miss!”

And it wasn’t just any nosebleed, but a proper double nosebleed.

The maids and servants who saw the blood flowing vividly from Chloe’s nose were at a loss and in complete panic.

The situation didn’t stop with just Chloe bursting into a double nosebleed.

“Taste…less…”

She felt her consciousness becoming distant and barely managed to utter her last words as if leaving a will, then fainted right there.

While Chloe was unconscious, the Garnet Estate was in chaos.

Was there poison in the food, how could there be poison in food made directly by the Duchess, then why did the young lady collapse, and so on.

Not only doctors but even investigators visited the mansion to investigate, but no evidence of poisoning was found.

Naturally, the reason Chloe collapsed wasn’t poison but simply because the food tasted too terrible.

“No, so are you saying my wife’s cooking was so tasteless? To the point where my daughter fainted?”

“We apologize! But no poison whatsoever was detected in the young lady’s body.”

The only clue was Chloe’s last words as she collapsed: ‘Taste…less…’

For the Duchess’s honor, everyone desperately tried to find another reason, but that was all there was.

So everyone had no choice but to acknowledge it. The fact that Chloe Garnet had fainted with a double nosebleed because the Duchess’s food tasted too terrible.

“I will never cook again…”

“My lady…”

Grania Garnet, Count personally tried his wife’s food despite everyone’s dissuasion to lift her spirits. However, perhaps taste ran in the family, as he too briefly lost consciousness from the shocking taste. After that, he could no longer encourage his wife.

Leaving behind the dejected Duchess and the deeply troubled Count, Chloe regained consciousness after a full day had passed.

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As soon as they heard the news that Chloe had awakened, the Count and Countess rushed to her room. Upon seeing Chloe awake and well, the Duchess even welled up with tears and hugged her tightly while exclaiming.

“Oh, my baby!”

During the short time Chloe was unconscious, the Duchess seemed to have suffered quite a bit mentally, appearing somewhat gaunt.

“I’m thinking of never cooking again from now on. To think that my simple desire to feed you my cooking would make you faint, Chloe. I was thoughtless.”

…The Duchess seemed to have received quite a shock as well, as she repeatedly vowed never to cook again.

Chloe didn’t speak empty words either. If she collapsed again from eating her mother’s food, it would only hurt her mother’s heart more. Of course, she also wanted no more stress from food.

“It’s okay. But please be careful with cooking for a while.”

“Yes, my precious daughter. How fortunate that you woke up safely.”

The Duchess hugged Chloe a bit too tightly, making her slightly breathless, but she accepted her mother’s embrace with a generous heart.

It was true that she had fainted because of her mother’s cooking, but thanks to that…

‘I remembered my past life.’

To think the trigger wasn’t falling from a tree, being hit by a carriage, or drowning, but her mother’s food being too tasteless.

Chloe found this fact absurd too, but after regaining her past life memories, she thought it wasn’t entirely unreasonable.

Recalling the foods she ate in her past life, she realized even more how terrible her mother’s cake had been.

‘Ugh…’

Just thinking about it made her feel like fainting again. Chloe desperately thought of other things to divert her attention from the taste that remained in every corner of her taste buds, attacking her mind.

The romance fantasy novel Chloe had read in her past life, <The Fake Saint Wants to Live>.

The name Chloe Garnet, wavy luxurious red hair with deep green eyes, plus parents who cherished their daughter dearly. She was undoubtedly a character from that novel.

If her memory had only gone that far, she wouldn’t have been troubled.

But the ‘Chloe’ remaining in Chloe’s memory was definitely a villain. That was the problem.

A stupid villain position. That was the problem.

The more she recalled her actions in the ‘original work,’ the more naturally her face contorted.

To think I’m destined to appear as the final villain’s minion, doing nothing but arrogant and stupid things before exiting!

If I hadn’t recovered my memories, it would have happened again this time!

‘Chloe Garnet, who was born with everything, couldn’t tolerate the fact that the female protagonist Shurya had the one thing she didn’t have – the Crown Prince.’

Following the original story’s flow, befitting a villain’s end, she was scheduled to try to harm Shurya, incur the Imperial Court’s wrath, receive terrible punishment, and cause her family’s downfall.

‘Then if I just don’t show interest in the Crown Prince, it’ll be solved, right?’

The fact that she was a villain was a bit troubling, but anyway, if she didn’t covet the Crown Prince and act disgracefully, who would dare point fingers at Chloe, a Count’s daughter?

Chloe decided to stay away from both the Crown Prince and Shurya, living gratefully as the child of parents who had both wealth and power.

So after recovering her strength, she sat at the family dining table with a joyful heart. Having sentimental thoughts about how precious this time felt now that she had recovered her past life memories.

And she discovered.

Whole roasted potatoes, steak, grilled fish, bacon, and bread and cheese proudly placed on the Garnet Estate’s dining table.

At first glance, it could have looked like an appetizing menu composition.

But Chloe noticed.

‘…Why don’t I see anything but grilled food?’

Without a single salad or pickle, there were only dishes of ingredients roasted whole.

Seeing that sight, Chloe’s thoughts briefly stopped.

These foods were definitely things she had eaten well without any sense of problem until she fainted.

But after regaining her past life memories, she could tell.

‘If this is the level of a Count’s family meal, what on earth does everyone eat to survive?’

Even the steak looked like just a chunk of beef grilled without any sauce.

Chloe squeezed her eyes shut.

“Oh my. Our daughter must still be very sick. What should we do, my baby.”

“No. I’m fine!”

Hearing the Duchess’s worried voice, Chloe stopped her contemplation and put a roasted potato in her mouth.

‘…It’s dry.’

She didn’t even dislike roasted potatoes, so she couldn’t understand why it tasted so bad.

‘Don’t tell me they really just grilled it?’

It was so bland that she doubted whether they had even sprinkled salt, and without any butter accompaniment, it made her mouth feel chalky.

While the Duchess’s cooking skills that made Chloe faint were exceptionally terrible, even normal food was equally difficult to eat.

She groaned and barely managed to swallow the potato down her throat.

Hoping the steak might be a bit better, she cut a small piece and tried it, but it felt even more dry and tough than the potato.

Next, she picked up the grilled fish that she had eaten well both in her past life and in her current life before regaining her memories.

“Ugh.”

But as soon as she put it in her mouth, she made a disgusted sound.

‘Fishy. It’s fishy!’

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