Su Wan, a renowned modern chef, is reborn as a mistreated illegitimate daughter of the Su family. Having died a tragic death in her previous life, she refuses to endure humiliation any longer. With her extraordinary culinary skills, she sets up a street stall and opens a restaurant, foiling repeated schemes by her legitimate younger sister and stepmother. Her cooking earns her fame throughout Qingxi, where she wins first place at a culinary banquet. When she learns that her birth mother left behind a long-established restaurant in Jinling, she bids farewell to the small town and heads to Jinling with her helpers, using her mastery of traditional, home-style cooking to forge her own future.