Shen Yan, a top designer in Shanghai, suffered a series of blows at the age of 30: company layoffs, stomach problems, and sharp rent increases. At this desperate moment, a phone call from Linyi broke his heart - his biological father, who had lost contact for 30 years and abandoned his wife and daughter early in his life, died unexpectedly.
Filled with half-life hatred, she returned to her hometown for the funeral. She was publicly harassed and humiliated by her stepmother Wang Meilan in the mourning hall. The will read out by the lawyer was even more unexpected: his father owned a multi-million-dollar office building inheritance in Beicheng New District. Shen Yan wanted to inherit it smoothly, but he had to take over the old Shenjia Grit Soup, a long-established shop in the old city that was on the verge of bankruptcy. The revenue doubled within a year and became a gold-lettered sign in the community. Otherwise, all the family property would be divided between his stepmother and half-sister.
A pampered urban designer who had never touched a stove was forced to settle in the fireworks market. The cold noodle chef in the store, Lu Huai, is an orphan adopted by his adoptive father. He has stuck to the old store for many years and believes that Shen Yan is only trying to seize the property.
Shen Yan started from scratch, faced the smell of glutinous rice, insults from diners, and difficulties from his colleagues, and studied the craft from scratch amidst the fireworks of garlic and bone soup. Lu Huai watched with cold eyes for a long time, but quietly handed over a bowl of hot grits on a snowy and cold night, and quietly changed his mind.
She spent countless early morning cooking days and nights, cracked the traps set by her relatives one after another, and revitalized the old shop that was on the verge of closure. When he reached the target and unlocked a multi-million-dollar office building, Shen Yan finally understood his father's last wish: the tens of millions of assets were a cover, a year of hard work in the market, a father who had been absent for half his life, leaving a belated lesson about fireworks, life and family love to his daughter who had been wandering for half her life.
