At the age of thirty, Xu Qingyue's restaurant has been open for three full years. The business is not very popular, but there are many regular customers, barely enough for her to keep this dream in the alleys of the urban village.
Until the man wearing a mask opened the door and ordered a dish that was not on the menu - sweet and sour poached eggs.
Her hands shook and she realized she had added too much salt.
Lin Yanqing, the academic ex-boyfriend who disappeared after the college entrance examination, has now become a vicious food commentator. From that day on, he came every week, ordering from the hidden menu every time, and leaving a to-the-point review every time. Some people said that he was here to cause trouble, but Xu Qingyue knew that he was using his own way to force her to face the unfinished words she had left unfinished all those years.
One is a restaurant proprietress who is struggling in the smoke and fire, and the other is an upstart food reviewer who is wandering in Vanity Fair. Ten years later, they thought they were on two separate paths. But some flavors, once tasted, can never be forgotten.
This is not a fairy tale of reconciliation. This is a story about how a thirty-year-old woman still chooses to live for herself under the multiple pressures of love, career, and family.
