Su Xiaoman, a rookie cook from a small town in the south of the Yangtze River, broke into the capital with half of the incomplete "Royal Chef Secrets" in search of her missing cook father. Her cooking skills were hit or miss, but with a naive and reckless tenacity and an unexpected "koi physique", she accidentally broke into Prince Xiao Jingyi's "rotten palace" - Prince Jing'an. On the surface, Xiao Jamgyi is a laid-back prince who is not interested in political affairs and is addicted to delicious food. In fact, he is secretly investigating the undercurrents of the court and is in urgent need of a cook with a "clean background and a weak brain (not easy to detect secrets)" to cover up the public. Su Xiaoman's arrival happened to meet his needs, but it also completely reduced the palace to a "happy comedy scene": boiling vegetables to produce laxatives, using the prince's calligraphy as firewood, mistaking the assassin for a diner who came to find trouble and beating him up...
In a series of unforeseen incidents, Su Xiaoman's cooking skills gradually improved, and he accidentally unlocked the hidden recipes in the secret book. He used delicious food to cure many "difficult diseases" of the court bosses, and unknowingly got involved in the power struggle among the princes. While getting along with Su Xiaoman, Xiao Jamgyi was infected by her purity and optimism, and gradually stepped out of the "showing off" pretense. The two went from mutual dislike to mutual dependence, and began to fall in love. At the same time, Su Xiaoman gradually got closer to the truth about his father's disappearance, and discovered that his father's disappearance was related to the unjust case of the imperial chef that year, and that the man behind the scenes was Xiao Jingyuan, the second prince who coveted the throne. In the end, with the help of her good cooking skills and a group of "foodie allies", Su Xiaoman cleared her father's grievances, and the two of them became successful. Su Xiaoman not only became the number one cook in the capital, but also the princess, spreading joy and delicious food throughout the palace.
