I meant this for those who think (the title say pastry and yet why i havent seen MC baking or leave everything and just cooking pastry)
So yeah.
Forgive me ♀
No worries. This story have no harem, I assure you! (๑•ㅂ•)و✧
Only politically induced little teasing by the Countess (which was also shown in the anime)
If you want, you can read the web novel in Japanese (using website tool translations to understand)
The web novel was partitioned by parts followed by a dessert related title, then inside contains 18-20 chapters each. So it means each part have a story revolving around baking a particular desserts or sweets and it's highlight mostly by the end of the last chapter (I hope you understand).
The story mostly revolves around sweets creation, sweets ingredients sourcing or production, product development, industry development, territory development & management, magic, military & defense improvement, politics, war and lastly.. problems mostly revolving around Pastry the trouble maker / magnet for troubles ε=ε=(ノ≧∇≦)ノ
It's just a bit frustrating since the web novel story is way too far from the manga already.
The most interesting part of all is the territory given is not suitable for survival, it's like a desert place or land with hard soil unfit for growing crops and this untouched frontier territory was given by the king as a reward to Pastry's father, the hero of their country who saves the country at the brink of total destruction from the neighboring countries (The bad land was the result of harassment from other nobles for the king's reward of making him a territorial noble with lowest nobility title & land).
The hero eloped with his wife so they don't get any support from wife's noble family. At a time, they even live in tents since they are so poor while the reward money given was used up in developing the hard land (using tools, people, etc.). It was very hard since the hero was originally a knight not a farmer. He even resorted to being a hired mercenary for the nobles just to earn money, since no one wants to lend them money and they just takes advantage of him with harassment (over interest for lending money and underpay for wages) to redicule him.
It was few years after Pastry was born that the development of the territory began in the right direction with positive results using Pastry's previous memories' knowlege. Since Pastry's dream for their territory to be a land of sweets, so with years of hard work, he created / developed / acquired everything from scratch (including livestocks) just to create sweets & develop sweets industry for their territory. ٩(๑❛ᴗ❛๑)۶
BEFORE he became a pastry he need money! income to buy ingredient! thus he help fix his country? his people first in order to get the income and ingredient!
that why he learn to fight and govern the country with his father!
(Well at least thats what im going to do if im at MC placed.
Lets hoped there won be harem, or many girl fallen for MC.
Please let there be at least one good manga, manhwa or manhua or anything that doesnt evolved one male many female or opposite.
Im tired