This Empress Is Bored

Qin Xiaoguo was a successful chef working in the future era. A turn of fate brought her to the past, into a time of famine and uncertainty. Waking up one day, Qin Xiaoguo found herself face to face with a boy who acknowledged her as his mother.
Having transmigrated from the year 3024 to 42 BC, Qin Xiaoguo had traveled across a three-millennium time leap to the past. She was transported to a destitute place, and also became mother to a hungry, skinny boy at the same time. 
Her only comfort to her new-found circumstances was a spatial ring that allowed her to transmigrate—giving her free access to food and other belongings from a different era.
After years of raising her son singlehandedly, Qin Xiaoguo had a surprise visitor at her door. It was a man claiming to be her husband, requesting to stay the night. Out of confusion and pity, Qin Xiaoguo let the self-proclaimed father of her child into the house.

Futuristic Chef Transmigrated As Mother

"Yes, yes… Oh, is that so… Yes, yes…"

Xiaoguo pretended to listen attentively. "Please, can the magistrate see that my legs are trembling? Why is he still going on?"

"You don't know, but I've had a good working relationship with Magistrate Su for many years. He's been keeping watch over me all this while…"

Magistrate Liu's speech was getting more and more far-fetched. He was talking about the chef's culinary skills earlier on, but now he was talking about his relationship with the bureaucrats. Xiaoguo couldn't carry on listening any longer. "What if he gets so excited that he blurts out some secret?"

Xiaoguo had just opened her mouth when Master Xing Ming, who was in the inn, came out to inform Magistrate Liu.

Xiaoguo could not thank him enough for coming at the right time.

"Okay." Magistrate Liu stopped talking and turned to Xiaoguo. "Let's go in."

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