The cold palace cook Shen Zhao tasted the poison in the powerful minister Pei Yan's heart with her chopsticks, and has been entangled with him ever since. She used the sour bamboo shoot soup as a blade and the soup as a chess piece, making every move startling but calm. Su Yuniang, the old nun in the cold palace, passed on her secret skills, Xie Yan of the household department secretly protected her, and her adopted daughter Yun Ni was obsessed with her taste - and every bite of the dish hid a bloody old case. When Yushan Pu reappeared in the world, she finally understood: what really sealed her throat was not poison, but memory.
