In 2045, Chiyuki Rinko, a descendant of a long-established Japanese tea ceremony family, came to Shanghai with the Tang Dynasty tea utensils inherited from the family, and met Lu Mingyuan, the inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage Longjing frying technique, at a cultural exhibition. When the thousand-year-old tea ceremony meets modern craftsmanship, the two cultures begin to collide fiercely in the fragrance of tea: Linzi pursues the beauty of the ceremony of "harmony and respect for purity and silence", while Mingyuan insists on the life philosophy that "the original taste of tea lies in people". With the intervention of the mysterious tea merchant Zhou Shian, the two discovered that the set of Tang Dynasty tea utensils actually concealed the secret of the origin of Chinese and Japanese tea cultures. From Shanghai alleys to Kyoto courtyards, from cultural conflicts to life and death protection, they gradually understand the essence of each other's culture through tea ceremony competitions, business intrigues and family feuds. When a century-old teahouse faces demolition and ancient skills are lost, they use an innovative cup of tea that combines Longjing and Matcha to prove that culture is like tea. Only when it is rolled in boiling water can the true fragrance bloom.
