The heroine, Lin Yue, is a modern, independent, capable woman who runs her own shop selling braised dishes. She transmigrates into the body of a twenty-year-old woman in an ancient setting resembling the Ming dynasty, a woman whose husband divorced her because she had given birth to a girl. Left with a child over two years old, the woman had struggled to make a living in the county town until she finally collapsed from exhaustion, and the heroine transmigrated into her body. Using her modern techniques for making braised dishes, the heroine carves out a life for herself in town. Through her own efforts, she eventually gets the better of her ex-husband's family, leaves them behind, and wins the sincere love of a marquis.
