Li Meihui, a cook from the south of the Yangtze River, possesses a family recipe and marries Yang Dali, the son of a butcher who is good at cooking. The couple makes a name for themselves in a small restaurant in the capital with their "worsty fish fillets", but they are accidentally involved in the palace selection and are called into the imperial dining room. When she first entered the palace, Meihui amazed everyone with her exquisite knife skills and precise control of seasonal ingredients, while Dali relied on his rock-solid cooking skills to make home-cooked dishes look royal. However, the journey of the imperial chef is startling at every step: in order to compete for the position of the main spoon at the "Longevity Banquet", he was poisoned by his colleagues and his voice was destroyed; he was almost exiled because he offended a disgraced concubine with a "bird's nest soup"; and even when the dynasty changed, he was ordered to cook the "Foundation Banquet", facing the tastes of the old and new dignitaries. In the chess game, the couple used the recipe as a shield and tacit understanding as a blade. In the palace kitchen where swords and swords were shining, they guarded the stove and each other, boiling the mist and rain in the south of the Yangtze River and the wind and frost in the north into a pot and a shovel, letting the ordinary fireworks create a golden legend during their years in Beijing.
