Veteran chef Zhao Xiulan poured her life savings into supporting her son to run a restaurant, toiling unpaid in the back kitchen for six years. On her sixtieth birthday, a bowl of longevity noodles cooked by her apprentice ignited family conflicts. Years of uncalculated, unrequited devotion were taken for granted. Refusing to compromise blindly anymore, she untangled every thread of family affection and financial loss and gain, rediscovering her own life.