Modern-day overworked office employee Xie Zhixuan unexpectedly travels through time to the Great Sheng Dynasty, becoming the Seventh Princess, whom everyone believes is unloved. Faced with palace rules and an unfamiliar world, she decides to use a pot of hot pot to open a new chapter in her life. From palace taste tests to opening a restaurant in the capital, she gradually builds her own business and meets Lu Zhaoyan, a Deputy Minister of the Court of Judicial Review who seems stern but is soft-hearted. As an old case involving the Empress comes to light, she discovers that her imperial father's ten years of neglect have a hidden explanation. After the truth is revealed, a jade pendant sends her back to the modern world. Six months later, she runs Zhixuan Hot Pot, and the man who promised he would find her really does cross a thousand years to stand before her.