After Su Qingyue transmigrates into the second daughter of the Hongqi Production Brigade’s Party secretary in 1976, she is forced into an arranged marriage with Lu Zhan, a demobilized soldier. They marry not long after their engagement.
After the wedding, Su Qingyue faces primitive living conditions and Lu Zhan’s cold attitude. Drawing on her skills as a modern food blogger, she uses limited ingredients to make delicacies like braised pork and scallion pancakes. She improves their meals and quietly helps neighbors with their food problems, gradually earning goodwill throughout the village. Lu Zhan resents the marriage at first, but Su Qingyue’s optimism, cleverness, and comforting home cooking win him over. He goes from quietly protecting her to actively helping her, and his hard heart slowly melts.
As they face shortages, resolve family conflicts, and deal with the affairs of the production brigade together, the two grow closer and more in sync. Su Qingyue uses her cooking to bring people together in small gatherings, while Lu Zhan protects her with a soldier’s sense of duty. In the end, they go from strangers bound by marriage to partners who can rely on each other, weaving a touching love story of mutual support and warmth amid the everyday bustle of the 1970s.
