Zhao Jianguo holds his family's ancestral secret recipe for braised delicacies and helps his son, Zhao Zhiqiang, build it into a major chain with hundreds of stores. But on his 60th birthday, he is instead driven into the kitchen, while his daughter-in-law, Zhou Lina, presents her own father as the recipe's true inheritor and pressures him to hand over the formula. Heartbroken and disillusioned, Zhao Jianguo revokes the authorization and accepts an investment from an old army comrade to start his own business. His son's family takes desperate risks, producing counterfeit products to cheat merchants and even framing him. Armed with his craftsmanship, evidence, and integrity, Zhao Jianguo strikes back decisively, rebuilds the Zhao Family's Old-Style Braised Delicacies brand, and meets Shen Manqing. The younger generation still covets the family fortune and pressures Shen Manqing, who is pretending to be pregnant, to have an abortion. As the truth comes to light, the chain brand goes completely bankrupt, and they finally realize that the person they drove away was the very pillar supporting their entire family.