Female protagonist, a young woman who runs Four Seasons Eatery in Tofu Alley. In her previous life she served as head chef for state banquets, first commanding a wok at seventeen. She possesses extraordinary cooking skills, precise knife work, and keen observation. After a tragic accident she transmigrated into the body of an orphaned daughter in the Great Liang Dynasty. Her father Old Qin died at the hands of bandits and her mother succumbed to illness, leaving her and her ten-year-old brother Qin Xiaoman with only the ancestral eatery and half a sack of coarse rice. She carries a cleaver and a slender boning knife, displays icy determination, and is unafraid to confront bullies.
