A modern chef dies suddenly after staying up all night and opens her eyes in ancient times, reincarnated as Tian Qiuhe, a poor farm girl everyone can push around.
Her father is meek, her mother weak, and her sharp-tongued second aunt, Tian Lahua, comes by every day with her family to bleed them dry. The clan chief keeps tightening the screws, and they even plan to sell her to an elderly, wealthy landowner as a good-luck bride in exchange for a betrothal gift.
Everyone says, “A woman will always belong to someone else in the end. You’re better off marrying into a good family than struggling your whole life.”
Tian Qiuhe sneers and awakens a magical culinary space, stocked with rare seasonings, improved crop varieties, exclusive medicinal recipes, and innovative dyeing patterns!
Her braised snacks become a sensation at the local market. She opens a little restaurant and puts every eatery in town to shame, then launches a modern cloth shop, where her original printed fabrics take the whole city by storm.
Matchmakers wear a path to her door, so she posts a notice: “The owner of this shop will never marry. She’s here to do business, not to find a husband!”
Relatives try to extort her, rivals poison her, merchants form monopolies, and the clan pressures her to marry. With her own wits, she turns every crisis around, taking in countless poor women and helping them make a living together.
From a humble country stall to a chain of restaurants and cloth shops spanning the lands from north to south,
Tian Qiuhe relies on neither powerful patrons nor a good marriage. With a pot of delicious food and a bolt of fine cloth, she carves out a bright future for herself and other women in ancient times!
