Food blogger Jiang Li transmigrates to the ancient world with a street-stall System.
She lives a comfortable life and even takes in a little fool.
The little fool is pretty and obedient, and her whole heart belongs to Jiang Li. She stays by Jiang Li's side all day, never leaving her for a moment. Even at night, she insists on sharing Jiang Li's bed, pressing close to her and burying her face in the crook of Jiang Li's shoulder before she'll go to sleep.
Day after day, with the little fool relying on her so wholeheartedly, even Jiang Li's lonely heart can't help but begin to beat again.
Before it can even get properly warmed up, the little fool regains her memories and leaves without a word.
When they meet again, the other woman is now a lofty empress, dignified and imposing. She looks down at Jiang Li from across the crowd with cold, indifferent eyes.
Remembering how she'd once bossed the little fool around, and... and done all those things with her, Jiang Li quickly lowers her head. Day after day, she lives in fear, afraid the empress will remember that embarrassing past and kill her to keep her quiet.
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After disappearing for half a year, the empress returns to her throne, seemingly even more noble and aloof than before. Only her personal attendant knows that the empress seems to have lost a piece of her memory. She can't eat during the day and tosses and turns at night.
Then, during the Shangsi Festival, a day when the ruler and her people celebrate together, the empress abducts a street vendor in broad daylight. She will only eat the woman's cooking, and demands that she stay the night to attend her.
No one knows that beneath the layers of bed curtains, the empress, her clothes disheveled, begs piteously with the same expression the little fool used to wear: "Dear Ali, please, make me feel good again."
Theme: Life can be sweet