Male lead: Guan Lizhi, locally nicknamed A-Zai or Zai-ge in the Cantonese of Xiguan.
Character: 29 years old, the only son for three generations in an old arcade house beside Liwan Lake Park. His catchphrase is, “We Xiguan people value staying calm above all else,” but the moment he sees his wife, he instantly caves. Special skills: simmering traditional soups, painting Guangcai porcelain, and automatically playing the soundtrack to The Legend of the Purple Hairpin whenever his wife scolds him.
Female lead: Long Lala, known in the Sichuan-Chongqing underworld as “Sister Tyrannosaurus.”
Character: 28 years old, a hotpot beauty from Yuzhong, Chongqing, who has been single since birth. She has a fiery temper but fiercely protects her own, and her arguments are louder than the bell tower at Hongya Cave. Special skills: flipping a twenty-jin pot of beef tallow with one hand, rhyming insults in Sichuan dialect, and automatically translating her husband's Cantonese sweet talk into a pepper-and-salt flavor.
