Tao Xiaoqian, a clear-eyed but clueless college student, transmigrates into the body of a household maid in the Zhao family of Jinling, where she is stuck doing the lowest, dirtiest job in the second kitchen: tending the fire.
She feels that life is just too hard and wishes she could bang her head and die, then transmigrate back home.
She has no special skills, just a sharp tongue. She knows how to eat, but not how to cook.
She thought she would have to endure this misery for the rest of her life, until she one day met her destined partner: the mistress of the household.
The mistress can cook, but has no one who appreciates her food.
Tao Xiaoqian seizes her chance, helps the mistress send a letter and turn her fortunes around, and finally rises to prominence. She goes from a kitchen maid tending the fire to a first-class maid who can't do a thing.
Her only daily duty is to accept whatever the mistress feeds her.
Facing her generous benefactor, Tao Xiaoqian says from the bottom of her heart,
