He is reborn in 1990, but all he wants is to be a cook.
A retired officer opens his eyes. Why is it his first day reporting to his new recruit unit?
The commander asks where he wants to go. “Reporting in! The mess hall!”
His fellow soldiers can't understand his choice, but Qin Jiaming quietly ties on an apron. Only he knows that this seemingly ordinary post holds the key to changing the future. Starting with a pot of comforting fish soup, he rescues fishermen in danger, sees through a smuggling ring's schemes, and quietly changes the fate of the entire Yan Island.
But no one notices that every dish he makes seems to foretell the future:
Ginger soup prepared before a typhoon hits, medicinal meals specially made for injured comrades, even an accurate prediction of when a smuggling ship will reach shore...
Until one night, Dong Xiaowen, the teacher secretly in love with him, rushes into the kitchen:
“Qin Jiaming, who are you, really? Why is there a newspaper clipping from 1999 inside that Tide Notes book, and why does it show our wedding photo?”
The fire crackles. He wipes his hands and takes a military insignia from his breast pocket, dated 2096.
“If I told you I came back from the future to protect all this,” he says, gazing out at the lights, “would you believe me?”
An even deeper secret lies within the great feast of a new era, soon to be unveiled
As fireworks celebrating Hong Kong's return light up the sea and the bells of the new millennium prepare to ring, this mess-hall soldier, who is always smiling amid the warmth of the kitchen, is preparing the most unexpected “weapon” for a covert battle that will determine the nation's fate.
Such a great hero