After Shen Zhiyao, her mother-in-law Su Huilan, took away the ancestral copper pot and embarrassed her in public at the wedding, she burned Zhou Nianrou's custom cake. This outburst shocked the entire Internet and also attracted the attention of documentary director Zhou Muyan. As the fragmentary pages of the ancestral recipe surfaced, Shen Zhiyao discovered that her mother-in-law not only stole the utensils, but also tampered with the family's thousand-year taste inheritance. She teamed up with Zhou Muyan to investigate and uncovered the old case guarded by Grandma Chen. Zhou Nianrou's dessert empire and Lin Yanqiu's plagiarism chain were becoming the biggest stumbling blocks for them to rebuild their tradition.
