By Noon, she stopped eating dishes from the Imperial Kitchen, instead making a mess in her own kitchen. She had been assigned a palace maid skilled in cooking, who began guiding her on the long road of learning to cook.
Because the original host had never cooked before, she couldn't tell grains apart and was unable to distinguish sugar from salt. At the beginning, she had to pretend the food she made, which was inevitably terrible, was tolerable. In such situations, she was too ashamed to poison others with her cooking, eating what was edible and discarding the rest. Fortunately, she didn't cook much each day, so it didn't lead to much waste.
When she didn't eat her fill, she would cook something in her space. After all, the food delivered by the Imperial Kitchen was handed out to everyone in Yikun Palace, and everyone kept the secret, following all of her commands, even managing to keep it from Cining Palace and the Imperial Study.
