The story takes place in a parallel time and space structure between an imaginary ancient dynasty called "Dayong Dynasty" and the modern real world of 2008. The heroine Su Lingwei was originally a top restaurant chef in modern 2026. In a kitchen explosion, she accidentally traveled to a parallel time and space in 1983, and became an ordinary farm girl in a small county on the border of the Dayong Dynasty. Her father died young, her mother was frail, and she still had two young siblings to support. The family was destitute and heavily in debt.
The Dayong Dynasty in this parallel time and space is in the early stage of reform and opening up. Tradition and modernity are intertwined. It has both the ancient class hierarchy and the family system, as well as the emergence of modern business and technological development. It is a special world that combines ancient style and the characteristics of the 1980s. The modern thinking, top cooking skills and future knowledge brought by the heroine have become her greatest capital for counterattack in this world.
