Modern milk tea shop worker Jiang Miao transmigrates into the Great Zhao dynasty as a palace maid who has been laid off from her job making royal milk tea. Armed with an exceptionally sensitive palate and modern recipes, she sets up a stall selling “Mountain Demon Shattered-Tooth Soup,” unexpectedly stirring up the capital. The aloof young lord Xiao Heng leads the campaign against “barbarian drinks,” only to sneak off in a mask to try one and end up crying from the spice. He becomes a regular late-night customer, doomed to die of embarrassment.
To revive endangered intangible cultural heritage, Jiang Miao uses caramel to repair tofu carvings, steam to restore ancient books, and glass bubble cups to serve milk tea, breathing new life into crafts such as tofu carving and pith-paper flower making. She uses “loaded milk tea” to outwit her legitimate younger sister in household intrigue, gets ordinary people breaking ice with a foot-powered ice crusher while they exercise, and even rolls tapioca pearls in the Golden Throne Hall to prove her innocence, turning an accusation of treason into a hit dessert.
When traditional tea merchants, driven by jealousy, kidnap intangible heritage artisans, Xiao Heng takes an arrow meant for her and falls unconscious, murmuring, “I haven’t paid for the milk tea.” At last, the iceberg reveals his true feelings. From a stall being smashed to opening the “Miaoshou Tea House,” and from opposing milk tea to becoming the “Milk Tea Inspector,” Jiang Miao not only uses milk tea to revive intangible cultural heritage, but also turns the icy young lord into her personal “sugar monitor.” This sweet storm holds the warmth of traditional crafts and the young lord’s scorching true feelings, hidden beneath his icy exterior.
