When Lin Wanxing dies in prison, she's still clutching fragments of her grandmother's gold-plated baking tray. Her stepmother stole the family's heirloom baking recipes, her stepsister opened a shop using her name and reputation, and her scumbag boyfriend ran off with her last bit of savings.
When she opens her eyes, she's back at twenty-two. Red candles illuminate her wedding dress as her stepmother urges her to marry a greasy rich man for the bride price, so she can buy her stepsister a handbag.
“You want to sell me for money? Not a chance!”
She flips the bride-price table, takes back the baking tray, and uses her grandmother's old recipe to bake an old-fashioned cream cake. Her street stall becomes a sensation. She opens a shop and gets revenge on the people who spread rumors about her, then exposes her stepsister's plagiarism on livestream. Even an industry bigwig's attempt to undercut her prices is thwarted by her “seasonal limited-edition” treats. Who would have thought that after being trampled into the mud, she could turn Evening Star Bakery into a city landmark with nothing but her own hands and an old baking tray?
But there's always a man named Gu Shen quietly helping her perfect her oven settings and handing her inspection reports. He even knows the secret amount of honey in her grandmother's recipe.
“Who are you, really?”
He pushes up his glasses and hands her the test report. “Your personal R&D specialist, and... I've been searching for this flavor for ten years.”
From selling baked goods in her neighborhood to becoming an inheritor of intangible cultural heritage, from standing alone to building a community of women who help one another, Lin Wanxing will take everything back. She'll make the people who hurt her watch as she uses butter and frosting to bake a success sweeter than anything in their lives.
In this life, she won't be dough for others to shape. She'll be the baker of her own destiny!
