Lin Weidong is critically ill and on the brink of death when his remarried wife, Qiu Yuzhen, and her three children from a previous marriage abandon his treatment. Filled with resentment, he is reborn in 1990. In this life, he is determined to break free from the exploitative Qiu family and refuse to be manipulated through moral obligation. He gives up his secure job at the flour mill and uses his cooking skills to start a street-food business selling boxed meals and his secret-recipe braised black duck. As he fights neighborhood prejudice and the schemes of petty troublemakers, he seizes the opportunities of the times to build his business and protects Chen Xueqin, who genuinely cares for him, rewriting the tragic fate of his previous life.