In an accident, food blogger Lin Xiaoman, armed with a secret recipe for ginger duck, traveled to the prosperous dynasty where food was the most important thing, and became a palace maid at the bottom of the imperial dining room. Faced with bullying and difficulties, she relied on modern cooking wisdom to turn leftovers into magic, surprising everyone with her innovative presentation and traditional method of ginger duck, and she even reached a cooperation with the cold-faced and scheming fifth prince Xiao Yan.
In the undercurrent of the palace, she uses food as her edge, competes with senior royal chefs in cooking competitions, and uses hot pot to resolve the crisis at the Queen Mother's birthday banquet, but she also becomes a thorn in the side of the scheming girl Shen Yuerou. At the same time, the whereabouts of the legendary "Book of One Hundred Flavors" that can influence the fate of the country are unknown, and the truth behind the defection of the imperial chef a hundred years ago is shrouded in mystery.
Lin Xiaoman and Xiao Yan work together to track down the Book of Heaven, and they move step by step amid the intertwining of intrigue and food. From the little palace maid in the imperial kitchen to the queen, she conquered people's hearts with her stunning dishes, and also revealed the mysterious origins behind herself and the Book of Heaven. When food becomes the key to rewriting destiny, a time-travel legend on the tip of the tongue begins...
