Lin Xiaoya, a food blogger with ten million followers, rants about an ancient gourmet web novel during a live stream and unexpectedly time-travels into the book as a self-aware potato. She also activates a shock-value system, unlocking physical abilities through the shocked reactions of others, with her ultimate goal being to turn back into a human. Landing in a vegetable basket belonging to the cannon-fodder Xiao family, and facing the prospect of being cooked into a dish, she can only rely on her inner voice to burst out modern gourmet recipes, saving the Xiao siblings—Xiao Heng, Xiao Che, Xiao Qing, and Xiao Yue—whose entire family suffered a tragic death in the original work.