1988, Started from a Street Shop

In the early spring of 1988, stove fires were burning all year round in the alleys of Nancheng, Beijing. Oil smoke, soot and noise were the background of life. Twenty-nine-year-old Cheng Yi was a neglected chef in a chain restaurant. In her last life, she worked hard, but was always bound by the process, squeezed by the workplace, and kept in place by reality. Until late one night, she was hit and killed while rescuing a little boy. When she opened her eyes again, she returned to 1988 and lived in the body of another girl with the same name. In this life, there are no chain stores and no modern equipment. There is only an old shop on the verge of being robbed, an ordinary family struggling to make ends meet, and the alley full of suspicion and ridicule. But for the first time, she saw a chance in life that truly belonged to her. The craftsmanship that was buried in the previous life will become the confidence for her to turn around in this life. The dream that was restrained in her previous life, she wanted to realize with her own hands in this life, she wanted to open a store. From a frying pan fire in the alley, to grabbing goods at the wet market, from fighting for a shop in the street to competing with neighbors, she used modern cooking skills, past life experience, and system assistance to fight her way through Beijing's most authentic fireworks step by step. The light in the oil smoke, the rhythm of the spatula, and the crowds of people queuing up to buy food will all bear witness to how she changed her life with just one hand. It also witnessed how an ordinary woman turned "survival" into "counterattack" in the tide of the times.