The New Year of 832–833 in the Commonwealth was destined to be a wonderful one, full of memories that Yu Lian and his friends and family would cherish.
The past year had seen many major events across the universe, but they had little to do with his family. They had simply found happiness in many small but genuine things, and were waiting for an even brighter future to arrive.
Mr. Liu Dachang, the fifty-fourth proprietor of the Liu family's Rongxia Restaurant in Jincheng, the first head proprietor of Ronghuì House in Haidu, and the latest heir to a family of culinary masters with a fifteen-hundred-year history, was forty-five this year. Quite a few of the Alliance's food magazines had bestowed on him titles like "Immortal of the Culinary Way," "Culinary Bard," and "King of Flavor"—the kind that made any normal person shudder.
As the New Year of 833 in the Commonwealth approached, he was at the peak of both his life and his career.
Mrs. Lena Liu, the fifty-fourth matriarch of Jincheng's family of culinary masters, "Queen of Cauldron Street," and "Feeder of the Chosen Champion," was forty-four this year. Once a housewife who devoted herself to her husband and children, she had somehow become vice chair of the Haidu University Town commercial district's property owners' committee. She could even chat and laugh with veteran members of parliament. She was undoubtedly being treated like a respected local notable.
She, too, was now at the peak of her life, looking even more radiant than she had three years ago.
The twins, Liu Ping'an and Liu Youle, were fifteen this year and entering adolescence. They were about to step into the most beautiful years of their lives, the years that would leave them with the most memories. They were studying at St.