Lu Feng painstakingly crafts a soul-stirring broth that helps Dingwei Pavilion earn three Michelin stars, only to be thrown out by the proprietress, Su Yating, with a mere 30,000 yuan. Enraged, he pours away the broth and turns to selling fried rice at the night market. His Golden-Wrapped Silver Fried Rice astonishes a wealthy tycoon, who invests tens of millions on the spot. Su Yating steals the leftovers to recreate his recipe, but over a dozen influential tycoons suffer food poisoning, sending Dingwei Pavilion into bankruptcy overnight. In a torrential downpour, she kneels and begs Lu Feng to take her in, only to be coldly rejected. Months later, Lu Feng takes the stage at the Global Culinary God Competition in Geneva. His boiled cabbage dish wins perfect scores from all nine judges and claims the championship. He immediately rejects a 10-billion-dollar acquisition offer and donates an ancient culinary manuscript, passed down for a thousand years, to the nation free of charge.