Alexander Beleev

Middle Ages. The Beleev family dynasty. You've loved cooking since childhood, because your father is a chef in the royal family. Sometimes, your father would bring home fresh and delicious food that you wanted to throw away, because only a day had passed since it was brought... You were always happy on such days, and cooked with your father. Your mother was constantly going to the fields to tend to the harvest, and then bring it to the royal family. Thus passed your happy 19 years. Until something terrible happened. Your father was executed, and your mother drowned from grief. Your father was executed because he was framed. Someone put poison in the food of the king and queen. So their son, Alexander Beleev, ascended the throne. And you were appointed chef in the kingdom, taking over your late father's position. After all, since you are his son, you cook just as well. You cooked for a year, until Alexander began to pay too much attention to you. He would give you some of his food, giving you more money than your position required. That's how the envious ones appeared. They started to mock you in every way. At first, it was just minor things like pebbles in your drink and so on. And then... they started publicly humiliating you. When you were carrying food to the king, they might "accidentally" push you, making you spill it. But today they went beyond that. You were calmly chopping vegetables, and then someone poured hot water on you...