The Banquet Master Returns to Protect His Mother

Ten years ago I left home because my father favored sons over daughters, starting by washing dishes in the back kitchen and grinding for a decade into a top state-banquet chef. My mother's sixtieth birthday was coming, but my brother had married into the Bai family and now wanted to ride on her birthday banquet to raise money for his mother-in-law's celebration, even pressuring Mother to take on loans. The Bai family humiliated her at the banquet. I came home and ran the banquet myself, holding the whole scene up dish by dish. When the Bais publicly picked on her, I fought back with my cooking and state-banquet standards, exposing in public how they'd humiliated her. Refusing to yield, the Bais threw a welcome-back banquet to rebuild their name; its ingredients hid a serious hazard, which I exposed in time. The international guests saw their true face and pulled the partnership. I took my mother out of that home, and we settled into a quiet life together. Watch free on Palmbox.