A modern five‑star chef, Shen Ning, transmigrates into a tragic novel as a substitute concubine‑born bride, marrying Fu Yanchuan, an impoverished scholar from a fallen family. Using her great cooking skills, she wins over the Fu household. She grows rich selling sugar‑roasted chestnuts from a stall and clears the family’s debts. Fleeing the doomed original plot, they move to the capital, where she opens a restaurant and saves Fourth Princess Li Yuan. After Fu Yanchuan becomes top imperial scholar, the Third Princess and Shen Qing, her legitimate elder sister, plot against her. Shen Ning reveals the truth at court, earns the title of County Mistress of Heyang, and lives out her days happily with Fu Yanchuan, the new Grand Chancellor.
