In the early years of Jiajing, a blood edict tore apart the Shen family.
The backbone of Qingliu was destroyed by the corrupt Yan Shifan, and the whole family was overturned.
The six-year-old orphan Shen Zhiwei, under the desperate protection of her loyal servant Suber, hid in the fireworks of the market.
After ten years of hard work, her delicacy has faded away, and her amazing cooking skills are a living skill and a dormant sharp blade.
Ten years later, Lu Mingyuan, a new academician, was full of energy and vowed to clean up the turbulent flow in the court.
When he tasted the familiar feeling at a banquet where dignitaries gathered, the gears of fate suddenly turned. He recognized her—the owner of the frightened childlike eyes when she ransacked her house in the past.
However, the tragedy of their parents' generation and the gap in identity made the reunion full of suspicion and temptation from the beginning.
One is an orphan girl who bears a blood feud and hides in the kitchen, and the other is a young and enterprising young man with great ambitions.
Misunderstandings are like ice, but they are melted by the hot truth and hatred in front of the common enemy - the overwhelming corruption network of the strict party.
They formed a dark night alliance, using wisdom as a strategy and love as a thread, just for the sake of smoke and peace.
