Li Shishi, a modern food blogger, woke up and became "Li Aqi", an orphan girl with the same name in Jiulong Lane, Nanjing City, Ming Dynasty. The family is destitute and has many creditors. The only "inheritance" is a few pages of incomplete recipes left by his father and a strange copper pot. In order to survive, Ah Qi relied on her past life memories and her talent for spices to create the "Li's Old-fashioned Bone Soup Malatang" that combines local spices (cornus, pepper, ginger and garlic, etc.) During the Ming Dynasty when supplies were scarce.
In front of a stall filled with fireworks, she met the man who changed her life - Shen Lian, a cold, taciturn, high-ranking Jinyiwei from Fusi Qianhu, North Town. A bowl of spicy hotpot made this powerful minister who was used to seeing blood and blood remember the little lady in the alley with stubborn eyes and amazing craftsmanship. He became a silent frequent visitor in front of her stall, and a silent but solid barrier in her precarious life.
