Lin Ye, a deliveryman, never imagined that a little blue-and-white jar he picked up at a secondhand market would drag him into a storm spanning time and space.
A spoonful of ancient “Worry-Forgetting Powder” turns the ordinary egg-drop soup he cooks into the “finest taste under heaven,” coveted by the imperial palace kitchens. It also brings mysterious figures in official robes to block him in an alley, sending him headlong into the mist-shrouded “Returning Alley.”
See how an ordinary man driven to desperation by rent uses a spoonful of seasoning to stir up the ancient world, and fights power plays and conspiracies with the warmth of home cooking.
