Ruan Tang, a modern Sichuan cuisine chef, accidentally traveled to Kyoto and became the proprietress of the "Fulaiju" inn, bound to the "Meal Heart System" - she needs to complete ten special palace meal tasks before she can go home. In order to save her younger brother who was imprisoned for stealing ingredients from the imperial kitchen, she was forced to work as a "private cook" in the palace. Faced with the difficulties of the concubines in the harem, the suspicion of the emperor, and the conspiracy of the remnants of the previous dynasty, Ruan Tang relied on his eccentric temperament, skills comparable to those of an imperial chef, and tasks issued by the system such as "making jujube and yam cakes to appease the concubine" and "improving the sobering soup to save the drunken prince". The aloof and sick emperor Xiao Chengyu suspected that she had "other agendas", then became increasingly healthy due to her medicinal diet, and then realized that he "wanted to eat her cooking every day", and finally fell completely after she outsmarted the evil concubine and solved the poison banquet conspiracy. And Ruan Tang was also on mission after mission, from wanting to "complete the mission and go home" to discovering that "there are people here worth protecting", the two went from mutual hostility to mutual agreement, and together they uncovered the truth about the sudden death of the late empress twenty years ago and the restoration of the remnants of the previous dynasty.
