From the Start, I Had a Run-Down Restaurant: Ancient Recipes Made Me a Legend

[System + intangible cultural heritage cuisine + livestream face-slapping + career-focused + sweet romance + comeback + feel-good story + equally matched leads]

Shen Yu is thrown out of a two-Michelin-star restaurant because she refuses to add chemical additives to the stock.

The whole internet mocks her for not knowing her place, her former mentor publicly cuts ties with her, and her fellow chefs all wait to see her fail.

She returns to her old neighborhood and inherits Zhiweiju, a rundown eatery with just 328 yuan left in the account. There, she activates a System called “Taste Inheritance.”

On opening day, the sharp-tongued food blogger “Judge of the Taste Buds,” who has thirty million followers, shows up with his livestream to expose her as a fraud.

She serves him a bowl of traditional lard rice.

The man who never gives good reviews bursts into tears after his first bite, right in front of millions of viewers.

Only later does the whole internet learn that the “Judge of the Taste Buds” is actually...

The eldest young master of the Lu Group, the company responsible for tearing down her old neighborhood.

Later, the young master stands at the entrance of Zhiweiju in a pink apron, turning customers away:

“My wife’s tired today. Come back tomorrow.”