Zhao Suiliang, a master Chinese-medicine chef at a modern five-star hotel, transmigrates after a car accident to Chunpu County in the Zhao Dynasty, where drought is raging. Her husband has just died, and her in-laws are already plotting to sell her. After escaping in the middle of the night, she activates the “Five Flavors, All Under Heaven” System. She can check in each day to exchange for ingredients and complete tasks to level up. With her signature cooking technique, “oil as the medium, fire as the guide,” she boils up her first life-saving soup over an earthen stove in a ruined temple.
A cat can tell good from evil, and a dog can test for poison. From handing out porridge at the Mountain God Temple to setting up a stall in the county seat, from sowing grain and spring planting to resolving a feud between two villages, she cooks medicinal dishes pot by pot, bringing the warmth of everyday life and the hope of survival to this famine-stricken land. In the end, a ramshackle shed becomes a medicinal cuisine restaurant, and one woman’s stove nourishes the stomachs and hearts of an entire county.
