A flash of white light at Ganye Temple causes the generational female empress Wu Mingkong to accidentally time-travel to modern times, reduced to a bald odd-job worker in a small restaurant. The once supreme ruler of mountains and rivers falls into the bustling secular world, enduring harassment from the female boss, provocations from local ruffians, and malicious framed plots from peers. Without any heaven-defying cheats, she relies solely on the imperial framework and strategic intellect accumulated over half a lifetime to break through the deadlock step by step among pots and pans. Tearing apart corrupt merchants, confronting capital tycoons head-on, she fights her way through thorns and brambles from the bottom kitchen. Not clinging to the powerful, not begging others for salvation, she battles the business sea with peerless culinary skills and extraordinary insight. Even though fallen into the mortal dust, her phoenix bone will never bow, to cast once again the boundless sharpness of a generational female empress in the modern world.