Shen Ning becomes a disgraced empress who is sent to the cold palace right from the start, while Xu Yao becomes her personal palace maid. Faced with a miserable beginning in a dilapidated place with bare walls and a leaking roof, the two sisters act decisively and refuse to engage in palace intrigue. Shen Ning, a former food blogger, leads her best friend in gathering firewood, lighting fires, collecting herbs, and catching bees in the cold palace, turning their struggle to survive into a wilderness cooking diary. Along the way, they even trick the proud but kind-hearted commander of the imperial guard into working for them for free. Watch how these two easygoing sisters thrive in the cold palace.