Taotie Ridge Private Kitchen: Making a Fortune in Both Ancient and Modern Worlds

Lin Mangmang, a 32-year-old middle manager at a major tech company, had had enough of colleagues stealing credit, shifting blame, and pestering her to get married. She planned to go up the mountain for a quiet life of spiritual cultivation, but a malicious map app led her to the desolate Taotie Ridge.

There were three stone houses and an empty offering table with a pair of bowls and chopsticks. Then a "ding" rang in her mind, and she was forced to become the third-generation successor to a private restaurant. If she didn't run the restaurant, she could forget about ever coming down the mountain.

As one diner after another showed up, she discovered that this rundown restaurant was a crossroads between different eras: it served modern guests in the east and ancient people in the west.

The retired emperor, fleeing the imperial court, was so startled by a plate of pork stir-fried with chili peppers that he dropped his chopsticks. He kept gasping from the heat, yet couldn't resist taking a second bite. A modern big shot, tricked by the malicious map app into climbing the mountain, took one bite of Dinghu vegetarian cuisine and immediately pulled out his phone to invest, only to find there was no signal.

A carefree Daoist priest came with the monkey Great Sage, showing up for every meal and paying with honeycomb.

As the saying goes, "The mountain scenery knows no difference between ancient and modern; on one mountain, two kinds of people sit apart."

Watch as she wields a cleaver in one hand and a wok spatula in the other, building the one-of-a-kind restaurant spanning two worlds atop the sea of clouds into a roaring success.