After transmigrating to ancient times, Jin Baoning becomes the illegitimate daughter of a county magistrate. Her stepmother wants to give her to a wealthy merchant as a concubine. Just then, her legitimate older sister, who is engaged to be married, elopes with someone, so her stepmother changes her mind and has Jin Baoning take her place instead.
She hears that the groom is a handsome scholar with a refined appearance. His parents are both dead, and he has a three-year-old younger brother. Unfortunately, his family is penniless and dirt poor.
On her wedding night, after consummating the marriage, Jin Baoning learns her new husband's name and realizes she's transmigrated into a political intrigue novel. Her husband, Cheng Qian, will become a ruthless eunuch and major villain, while his three-year-old younger brother, Cheng Nuo, will grow up to be a villain who abuses the law for personal gain.
One will be a corrupt eunuch, the other a treacherous minister. The brothers will join forces to plunge the court into chaos, until they're both beheaded. After their deaths, they will be reviled by the masses and left exposed in the wilderness, to everyone's satisfaction.
She, meanwhile, is a bit-part character with only one line. Her whole family will be punished by the villains, and she will die of illness on the way to exile in Lingnan.
Jin Baoning: Attacked from both sides! This is bad!
To save her own skin, Jin Baoning swears to set the two future villains straight before they go astray. But when she sees an empty rice jar, the two scrawny villains, their dilapidated house with a leaking roof, and an empty purse, she realizes that making money comes first!
Food blogger Jin Baoning rolls up her sleeves and gets to work, setting up a food stall to make her fortune.
Egg-stuffed pancakes, bite-sized pan-fried buns, soup dumplings, hand-torn pancakes... Nut milk tea, sticky rice balls, seaweed rice rolls... candied hawthorn with a sweet filling, honey-glazed dried tofu, sugar-coated chilled rice cakes...
A beautiful young woman has recently appeared in Huaiyang County's bustling market. She's clever and skilled, and her food stall offers a wide variety of delicious dishes, all sending out mouthwatering aromas. There's always a long line at her stall.
