Lin Zhiyuan, the owner of a farmhouse restaurant, accidentally transmigrates and becomes the vicious cannon-fodder character everyone hates in a novel.
The original owner squandered the family fortune, ran up huge debts, and even forced Ye Jingxiao, a down-on-his-luck heir, to become her live-in husband.
System: Host's life points are critically low! Please work hard to earn other people's favor and stay alive!
To survive, she focuses on making delicious food. Using modern restaurant-management ideas, she turns the run-down eatery into a thriving business. Even her husband, who keeps pretending to be a fool, starts lingering in the courtyard behind the restaurant every night.
Then a rival bribes the authorities to shut down the restaurant and frame her. He reveals his identity in public for the first time to defend her, and only then does she realize that these warm meals and seasonal pleasures have long been the only human warmth in his life on the run.
As turmoil rises again at the border, they donate provisions to the army. The emperor personally inscribes, "The Finest Jiangnan Cuisine," and Zhizhi Restaurant becomes an imperial establishment.
She becomes the most popular female proprietor in the city, and also stands by him as he clears his name before the emperor.
The corrupt minister is finally brought to justice, and fame and glory are within easy reach. Yet he takes her hand and gives up his splendid future.
Together, they remain at their restaurant, with the lamplight warm and welcoming, and spend countless springs and autumns side by side.
Theme: One home lit by lamplight, a lifetime of love
