Su Ayuan, a country girl selling pancakes, broke into the capital with the money she had saved for three years to get medicine for her father who was seriously ill. However, she lost the money as soon as she entered the city. When she was desperate, she accidentally bumped into the carriage of Shen Yanqiu, the minister of household affairs who was "the most difficult to deal with in the capital". What was even more outrageous was that she was carrying a freshly baked pancake in her arms that was so hot that it could burn off a layer of the skin.
One is a snack shop who only knows how to knead pancakes and runs rampant in the market with his "ancestral secret recipe for cooking pancakes", and the other is an "ice official" who counts all the money and food in the world but cannot calculate the love between his children and is bound to death by rules. They are two completely different people, but they become connected because of this "cake". Su Ayuan was forced to stay in the Shen Mansion as an errand in order to pay off the debt (to compensate for the oil-stained moon-white brocade robe of the Minister Shen). She used her rolling pin and the big iron pot to stir up the cold residence of the Shen Minister. When delivering cooking cakes to the Censor, she encountered someone hiding private money, used dough to poke holes in the account book while helping the Minister Shen reconcile the accounts, and even saved the day at the palace banquet with "improved cooking cakes"...
And when Shen Yanqiu looked at this girl who always talked about "having enough to eat but not being hungry", she slowly felt that compared to the numbers on the account book, the light in the corners of her eyes when she smiled and the tip of her nose stained with flour when making pancakes were the warmest scenery in the capital. However, one is a small businessman in the market, and the other is a nouveau riche in the court. Can their fate really be as fragrant and sweet as the freshly baked cakes?
