For three years, Liu Huizhen has provided free home-style meals in the back alley of Guihua Garden, keeping children and elderly residents going with her hot, freshly cooked food. But when Mrs. Zhao and Zheng Wei wanted her to provide an eight-table engagement banquet for free, they used food safety complaints to force her to give in, and the community meal service was forced to shut down. Only after the meals stopped did the entire neighborhood realize that what they had dismissed as casual favors had been supporting so many people's daily lives. Liu Huizhen refuses to keep working for free. Together with her daughter and neighbors, she rents a storefront, obtains the necessary permits, makes the accounts transparent, and clearly displays her prices, transforming a community meal service crushed by social obligations into a regulated, welcoming community canteen.