I Opened a Restaurant in Lingnan After Being Exiled (Gourmet)

[Black-bellied career-driven female lead × tsundere noble young master down on his luck]
Food blogger Xu Ning transmigrated into an unfamiliar dynasty sixteen years ago and lived sixteen good years—until her family inadvertently angered the emperor. All the men were executed, and the only remaining women in the family were exiled to Lingnan.
To keep the household afloat, she decided to return to her old trade, starting from setting up a stall selling breakfast foods, then renting a space in town to open a restaurant. For breakfast she sells sweet potato syrup water, milk tea and other drinks, along with crystal shrimp dumplings, shumai, red rice shrimp rice rolls, glutinous rice chicken, seafood noodles, and other eats...
In summer, with Lingnan's blazing sun, the afternoons feature pineapple ice, qingbuliang, salted lychee drinks, ice jelly, and other cooling fruit teas to beat the heat, and the restaurant also offers seasonal snacks from time to time.
The food is cheap and delicious, so after the restaurant had been open for some time, it accumulated quite a few regular customers.
To keep her household from being coveted by others, she forcibly married a man she found on the mountain to serve as a guardian of the home.
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Huo Xiangli held a high position and had always been close to his elder brother, the crown prince. In public he was frail and sickly, but in private he schemed for his elder brother.
To investigate an old case, he traveled near Lingnan, only to be ambushed and gravely wounded, and was forcibly taken home by a female bandit to become her live-in husband.
He hated this female bandit utterly—she fed him fierce, potent drugs and made him endure humiliation and bear the burden.
At night, tears of humiliation silently streamed from the corners of his eyes, but the female bandit leaned close to his ear and said: "Husband, don't be afraid. I'll think of a way to heal your injuries."
How could he... how could he not fall in love with her?
Later, he willingly married into her family.
[Reading Guide]
① Dual purity, 1v1. As the plot requires, the early stage develops both the romance line and the career line; in the later stage, after the male lead's identity is exposed and the female lead decisively flees with her family, the career line becomes heavier. Enter at your own discretion.
② Alternate history with private设定 (personal worldbuilding); please do not fact-check. Main focus is gourmet business daily-life style + light scheming (mainly in the later stage, not much).