Yan Nanxing, a top modern banquet chef and inheritor of an intangible cultural heritage, dies suddenly from overwork and wakes up in the Great Zhou Dynasty as a downtrodden farm girl everyone can bully!
The moment she opens her eyes, she faces a hopeless situation: her ex-husband has passed the imperial examination to become a scholar and is joining forces with her wicked mother-in-law to drive her out with nothing.
Yan Nanxing gives a cold laugh. Without tears or a fuss, she pulls out the little abacus from her dowry and publicly tallies every penny of the hard-earned money she made slaughtering pigs and working the fields to support his studies over the past five years! Gripping the scholar's weakness, his concern for his reputation, she firmly signs the divorce agreement, takes the massive IOU, and walks away in style with her sweet four-year-old daughter!
Living in a ruined temple from the start, with not a penny to her name? Yan Nanxing doesn't panic in the slightest.
She turns pig offal, which the ancients can't bear to go near, into “Nine-Turn Intestines,” making the whole village drool;
She brings back the long-lost Song Dynasty art of whisked tea and tea paintings, inspiring Jiangnan literati to spend wildly;
Ancient-method hydrosol perfumes, intangible cultural heritage double-sided embroidery, clear glass, high-proof liquor... Armed with modern knowledge and traditional master crafts, she crushes the competition at every turn. Starting as a street vendor in a ramshackle hut at the edge of the village, she builds a vast business empire and becomes “the greatest merchant under heaven,” feared even by the emperor!
