Merchant's daughter Liu Dongli is suddenly caught in a bandit attack and meets with misfortune.
When she opens her eyes again, it feels like waking from a long dream. She discovers that she is the ill-fated first wife who dies early in a book!
Her husband, Feng Jifei, is in love with the Third Princess. After the princess has someone violate Liu Dongli's chastity and then forces her to leave the marriage, Liu Dongli can no longer bear the humiliation and jumps into a river to end her life. Feng Jifei marries the princess and becomes the most envied consort in the land!
Liu Dongli's lashes flutter. Looking at the scumbag by her bedside, fussing over her only to swindle her family fortune and curry favor with the princess, she silently pulls her hand back.
Before long, a small eatery opens on the streets of the South Market.
First, students from the academy go out of their way to buy soup dumplings every day.
Then a young general queues up first thing in the morning just for the stinky luosifen.
Next, a famously picky elder from the court can't get enough of a pot of spicy crab!
Soon, the Prime Minister's wife, the princes' heirs, and royal nobles from the palace are all willing to spend a fortune just to have Lady Liu cook them a bowl of soup.
Passersby can't understand it. It's just an ordinary little eatery, not even as big as Tianxiang Restaurant's woodshed. What could possibly make so many nobles flock there?
But once the aroma of delicious food wafts out, none of them can make their legs move...
Lu Lingsheng is the head of Luyang Academy and the youngest Grand Tutor since the founding of the dynasty.
He read the Four Books at three, studied the Five Classics at six, and placed first in the imperial examinations at fourteen before entering government service. Everyone calls him a literary star descended from the heavens, an immortal come to earth. Even the capital's Four Young Masters look up to him as their ideal and praise his elegance.
But the cold and aloof Grand Tutor Lu has always kept a secret.
He has a girl hidden in his heart, but propriety has kept him from ever saying so.
Now that he has been given the chance to live again, and the girl is still just as she was, shouldn't he put in a little effort to help her regain her freedom first?
Reader's Guide:
1v1, HE, SC
The male lead is a scheming Grand Tutor, pure in body and mind. The female lead never consummated her marriage with her former husband either. The female lead had already transmigrated in her previous life, but her memories had yet to awaken.
Theme: To be determined