Help! The Stern Factory Director Climbs Over the Wall Every Night Begging for Food

[1980s + Gourmet Food + Exposing Scumbags + Public Comeuppance + Devoted Couple + Contrasting Builds]

Wen Zhixia is transported into the body of the young owner of a small club in a residential compound, a club on the verge of closing down.

From the start, her second aunt fakes a fainting spell to frame her, while her cousin grabs the microphone and accuses her of embezzlement. Huo Zheng, a stern deputy factory director with real authority and a scar across his brow, gives her ten minutes to prove her innocence or he will shut the place down.

Wen Zhixia smiles and opens the [Hundred-Flavor Opera Script].

One spoonful of piping-hot, tangy and spicy soup sends her second aunt, who was pretending to be unconscious, springing up to grab a meal.

With a flick of her water sleeves, she performs a double act on the spot, exposing her cousin's hard evidence of embezzlement and hotel receipts in front of everyone!

The factory workers are stunned: So you can listen to opera like this, and enjoy gossip like this too?!

From then on, the residential compound has a new "Dispute-Settling Opera Stage."

She pairs comic storytelling with crispy smile cookies, publicly strips a wicked mother-in-law of her dignity, and gets revenge while charging admission.

She accompanies her blind pipa performance with crab roe soup dumplings, forcing her slanderous cousin to confess in public and driving the dance hall across the street into bankruptcy!

But... why does the stern Deputy Director Huo next door, who buttons his collar all the way up by day and comes over every day to inspect fire safety, turn into a different person at night?

Late at night in the west wing, the man climbs over the low brick wall, grabs her around the waist, and pins her against the stove, coaxing her in a husky voice:

"Xiaxia, the show is over. Is the noodle soup ready?"