Investment banking elite Lin Wanqing is unexpectedly reborn and transmigrates to Kowloon Walled City, Hong Kong, in 1990. She becomes an eighteen-year-old girl who sneaked into Hong Kong and scrapes by delivering boxed meals to film sets. From the start, she is in dire straits, burdened by rent, ostracized by fellow villagers, and cheated out of her wages. She is also publicly humiliated for not understanding Cantonese, and her boxed meals are knocked to the ground.
Drawing on her foresight and cooking skills, Lin Wanqing seizes the opportunity presented by the film sets. She uses inexpensive ingredients to make nourishing soups and improves the meals served to film crews. Her tasty, affordable food wins the crews' approval. She volunteers to take over catering for a production with a tiny budget and a terrible reputation, then uses carefully designed menus to dramatically boost the crew's satisfaction, earning the admiration of director Fang Zhenyue.
While making deliveries, she proves adept at recognizing talent. She treats Ajie, a gifted screenwriter whose abilities have gone unrecognized, Uncle Ming, a lighting technician who has stayed true to his ideals, and Feige, a diligent stunt performer, with kindness. Together, they form a team of film craftsmen overlooked by the mainstream industry. She boldly proposes adapting a script about ordinary local people instead of relying on hackneyed gambling-movie tropes, and they join forces to make the low-budget film A Film Set in Turmoil.
As her career takes off, she meets Xie Shaochen, the second young master of Xie Film Studios, who has returned from studying abroad with a drive to innovate. Though the two initially clash over their creative ideals, their feelings for each other gradually grow, and they uncover the hidden entanglements behind the tragic past of the original owner of her body. She weathers one crisis after another, including hostile poaching, public-relations scandals, and restrictions on subject matter, relying on the industry connections she has built and her commitment to her original ideals.
As Hong Kong cinema enters a period of transformation in 1997, Lin Wanqing goes against the tide, establishing a program to support emerging directors and a film and cultural-creative platform. In the end, she rises from a lowly boxed-meal delivery girl to an industry trailblazer who leads a new wave in Hong Kong cinema. Together with her partners and the one she loves, she ushers in a new era of filmmaking.
