The Bankrupt Boss's Tongue-In-Cheek Counterattack

40-Year-old Chen Lei was once the owner of a prosperous hot pot restaurant chain, but he fell into hell due to the epidemic and vicious competition - he was in debt of 800,000, his wife and children were separated, his father was in urgent need of dialysis due to uremia, and he survived by delivering food. On the most painful day, he saw his daughter calling "Daddy" to his ex-wife's "Bai Yueguang", and the soup in the thermos bag spilled all over his trouser legs, just like his dignity was shattered into pieces. In a desperate situation, he accidentally awakened "taste synaesthesia" when he was hungry and fainted at the vegetable market: he could know the best way to cook food by touching it, and he could even retrace his growth trajectory. Rotten tomatoes are roasted in his hands to achieve peak sourness and sweetness, and deformed potatoes are stewed to create a delicious soup. He started by setting up a stall in the night market, using the second-rate ingredients that he had "picked up" to make popular braised food, and earned his first life-saving money to pay for his father's dialysis fees. The road to counterattack is full of thorns: debt collection, rumors from colleagues, strangulation by capital tycoon Zhang Cheng, and cold ridicule from his ex-wife. But he squeezed those hands tightly - the tomatoes soaked in mountain spring water could awaken nostalgia, the medicinal soup of the old Chinese doctor could cure stubborn diseases, and his daughter could remember that "dad's brisket is the most fragrant." From a small shop of 10 square meters to a listed catering giant, he used taste to fight against capital and used sincerity to repair family ties. When the signboard of "Chen Ji" was put up again at the old location where it went bankrupt, Chen Lei finally understood: the most touching taste of fireworks in the world is never the delicacies, but the tenacity to stand up again after a fall, and the warmth of the family sitting around the dining table.