This is a female-led satisfying revenge drama that blends rural family ethics, female awakening, business counterattack and comeuppance elements. The protagonist Katherine Zhao is the head chef of Jianguo Farmhouse Restaurant, and has been a daughter-in-law of the Li family for ten years. Relying on her ancestral aged brine base skills, she works from dawn to dusk to support the reputation of the farmhouse restaurant, even taking charge of cooking all 50 tables of running feast for the Village Chief's 80th birthday banquet alone. However, her forbearance and dedication only bring greed and betrayal. Her sister-in-law Yvonne issues a notice cutting her salary from 6000 yuan to 3000 yuan, forcing her to assist her husband's younger brother Jake Li, who has just started learning cooking and cannot even tell salt from sugar. They not only try to take over her cooking ladle, but also forcibly seize the ancestral brine recipe from her family. Worse still, her husband Jason Li, who has shared the same bed with her for ten years, does not defend her, instead stands on the side of Yvonne, accusing her of "holding back and guarding against the Li family". When her niece Cindy is pushed to the ground and she has no more room to retreat, Katherine Zhao resolutely kicks over the slop bucket, finishes the last 50-table village grand feast, leaves the marriage with no assets (only taking her tattered apron, old kitchen knife and ancestral medicine bag), and drops a harsh warning: "9 a.m. tomorrow, Civil Affair
