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In Mong Kok, there was a restaurant that had been open for over thirty years, filled with guests and praised by diners.

However, prosperity also hid a crisis: the owner was old with no successor, and his apprentice started his own place, stealing customers with low prices.

Diners secretly lamented, fearing the restaurant wouldn't last much longer.

One day, the owner brought his granddaughter from the mainland and decided to hand the restaurant over to her.

That granddaughter was rumored to be a shepherdess who grew up in the Gobi Desert of the Northwest.

Diners secretly sighed, fearing the restaurant wouldn't last more than a few days.

Yue Ning, a Cantonese chef famous for cooking seafood, who was so picky about ingredients and even diners yet still sought after by gourmands, was reborn into the food-scarce 1960s and grew up in the vast Northwest, far from the sea.

She had never even seen grouper, abalone, sea cucumber, or bird's nest. Cattle and sheep belonged to the state; she could feed them but not eat them.

As reform and opening-up approached, Yue Ning thought about moving to the city to open a small restaurant. She swore she would no longer be picky about ingredients or diners.

One day, an old gentleman claiming to be her grandfather found her and told her he had a Cantonese restaurant in Hong Kong...

First draft synopsis: 2024.1.18

Tags: Wealthy Families, Transmigration, Gourmet, Satisfying, Period Piece.

Yue Ning, Qiao Junxian

Other: Gourmet

One-sentence synopsis: That Cantonese chef from the Northwest.

Purpose: Get rich through hard work.

Fan Qi was deeply fond of a powerful figure from a Hong Kong novel—a man whose turbulent early life had shaped him into someone irresistibly charismatic.

But admiration was one thing. Fan Qi had never imagined she would wake up in 1986 Hong Kong, becoming the greatest misfortune in that man’s life—his deceased wife.

There was a line in the novel she had never taken seriously:

“If it weren’t for that loose woman, Chen Zhiqian would’ve lived up to his name—gentle and courteous. But now he’s half Buddha, half demon.”

“I heard that woman was stabbed twenty-seven times, every wound to the bone. Was it him who did it?”

“Shh…”

Yet when Fan Qi awoke, what greeted her were Chen Zhiqian’s dark, brooding eyes. A chill ran down her spine.

At that moment, the phone rang incessantly. She picked it up—it was her agent, urging her to hurry to a hotel and entertain a wealthy businessman. The agent even threatened that if she didn’t go, she could forget about making it in the entertainment industry.

Glancing at the TV broadcasting stock market news, Fan Qi replied, “I’m busy,” and hung up.

She went into the kitchen to cook a bowl of noodles. Remembering the “twenty-seven stabs,” she split the noodles in half and gave some to Chen Zhiqian. And so began their life of eating from the same pot, sleeping on the same bed, minding their own business, and occasionally having a chat.

During the booming Hong Kong stock market of 1986–1987, Fan Qi—who had been a professional trader in her past life—made a killing and saved enough to buy a property. She then told Chen Zhiqian she wanted to end their strictly-platonic, shared-blanket sleeping arrangement.

Chen Zhiqian readily agreed, and Fan Qi was relieved by his reasonableness.

However, that very night… he didn’t want to talk anymore.

[Note: In his previous life, the male lead was a serious businessman. He didn’t kill the original wife.]