The Country Chef: A Widower's Joyful New Beginning at Forty

Zhong Shoucheng is a Cantonese chef. After being hit by a dump truck, he wakes up thirty years in the past, occupying the body of an old kitchen hand who washed vegetables and dishes and died in the same accident while trying to save him. He discovers that everything the old man told him was true:

His family has three large fishing boats and a two-story house. His parents died young, one after the other, from serious illnesses, leaving their only child at the age of twelve. He struggled to make it to twenty, then naively trusted a matchmaker and married a sickly woman. After twenty years, she passed away without leaving him a son or daughter. At just forty, he became a widower! Suddenly, all his relatives came out of the woodwork. Some offered to manage his fishing boats, some to help farm his land, and some to move into his house. The old man was timid and couldn’t stand up to them, so he simply left, spending the next thirty years washing dishes and vegetables in a restaurant and never returning to the village.

Trying to grab the family fortune?

This is his property now. How could he let anyone else take it?

Zhong Shoucheng isn’t going anywhere. He stays in the village and nearby town. First, he uses an iron fist to teach a harsh lesson to all those relatives who show their true colors and resort to every kind of dirty trick. Second, he relies on his culinary skills to make a name for himself, becoming a country chef in such demand that he’s hard to book across eight towns and seventy-two villages.

A widower? No chance he’s staying a widower!

He’s bound to marry and enjoy a second spring, but with so many choices, it’s giving him a headache. He’ll have to stay on his toes. If he lets someone win him over before he knows it, he’ll miss all the fun, won’t he?

Everyone! Who understands the joy of a forty-year-old widower getting a fresh start in life?