Simmer
Read the storyWhen 25-year-old Ivy Chen returns to her family’s restaurant for her grandmother’s funeral, she plans to sell it and escape her suffocating past. But the will has other ideas: she must co-run the place for six months with Jasper, her estranged foster brother who now wears a three-piece suit and a smirk. As they clash over recipes and rent, a late-night grease fire reveals old secrets: Jasper never left because he was in love with her. Now Ivy must choose between the freedom she craved and the family she never knew she had.