Su Xiaoxiao, a genius chef who has lost his sense of taste, comes to Fengtian in search of a legendary ingredient, only to get caught up in a bizarre assassination attempt on a young marshal. The attempt fails and the assassin vanishes, but Su Xiaoxiao is stunned to discover that he looks exactly like the notorious warlord’s son, Young Marshal Shen Si. He is soon secretly detained by the warlord, Marshal Shen Zhongshan, and forced to become Shen Si’s double, dragged into a treacherous struggle for succession and a brutal clash between factions. In the handsome but rotten marshal’s residence, every banquet could be a trap, and every delicacy could conceal a deadly plot. Su Xiaoxiao has no choice but to rely on his extraordinary cooking skills and powers of observation to navigate a world of flashing blades and subtle flavors. Beneath his icy mask, the “Gourmet’s Tongue” quietly awakens, allowing him to taste every secret hidden in food: hatred, conspiracies, even memories. As the line between the real young marshal and his double grows increasingly blurred, a vast conspiracy sweeping across the north is slowly brought to the table, one dish at a time.
