[Period Setting + Adorable Child + Food System + Culinary God + Everyone's Favorite + Examiner + Anti-Trafficking + Gaokao Ensemble Cast]
Four-and-a-half-year-old Cheng Miaomiao is sold to human traffickers by her cruel grandmother, who wants to get a bride price for her cousin.
On a jolting long-distance bus, the desperate Miaomiao unexpectedly binds to the "Food System." With a single spirit-bewitching candied fruit, she makes a daring escape, then clutches her late mother's final letter and begs her way along in search of her father.
When she finds her biological father, a drunken, despondent man in the back alley of the commune, everyone in the village is waiting to laugh at the pair of them.
Who could have guessed that a bowl of top-tier soy sauce noodles boosted by the System would instantly awaken the soul of the fallen man's former self: the provincial capital's number-one chef?
His awful mother shows up to make a scene and steal their money? Her father grabs a knife to protect his daughter and slams a severance-of-family-ties declaration in the old woman's face!
The traffickers refuse to give up and secretly seek revenge? Miaomiao cleverly teams up with the police, taking down an entire interprovincial trafficking ring in one fell swoop!
As the winds of the restored college entrance examination era begin to blow, the father and daughter's little restaurant opens right next to a school.
Revitalizing chicken soup, stomach-warming noodles, top-scorer buns... Their tiny roadside stall not only makes the whole neighborhood drool, but feeds one top scholar and chief examiner after another!
As Cheng's Restaurant continues to grow, the mastermind who framed her father and caused her mother's death finally can't sit still, using their influence in the provincial capital to close in on them at every turn.
Four-year-old Miaomiao isn't worried at all. She grips her little ladle and looks up at the father shielding her: "Dad, it's our turn to serve the dishes!"