The Poor Scholar: Getting Rich from a Street Stall and Shocking the Powerful

Between Jiangning and Jinling, Chu Lan was originally just a nobody with a younger brother to care for.

To make ends meet, he studied food and ran a little shop. By chance, he caught the attention of Fuman Tower and sparked a wave of culinary innovation.

He then teamed up with Meng Xuan, a young master from one of Jinling's great families, to make his mark in the bustling metropolis, creating a "two-city legend" with sausages and home-style dishes.

On one side was Meng Xuan, a shrewd merchant who used increasingly lavish means to try to keep his talent close;

On the other was Xiao Yi, a noble-born man of exceptional martial skill, willing to defy the constraints of his family for him.

A battle of hearts quietly unfolds amid food and power. Will Chu Lan sing out in the splendor of Jinling with Meng Xuan, or return to Jiangning with Xiao Yi to watch over his family?

As the year draws to a close, the New Year's Eve dinner rivalry between Fuman Tower and Drunken Cloud Tower is in full swing. Players from every walk of life take turns appearing, while sausages, hot pot, and custom New Year's Eve dishes keep reshaping people's ideas of what food can be.

Chu Lan's business grows bigger and bigger, yet family and responsibility, friendship and affection leave him torn.

The dazzling excess of Jinling and the curling kitchen smoke of Jiangning are all connected by him.

In the bitter cold, everyone's deepest feelings come to the surface. Sweetness and heartbreak intertwine, with one thrilling turn after another!

This is a collision of food and emotion, a dazzling stage about family and responsibility, ambition and protection.