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Su Xiao, a working mom crushed by work and childcare, accidentally travels into an ancient market from her late grandma’s old recipe book—no food delivery, no parenting apps, just a penniless self and her crying 3-year-old son Xiaoyu. To survive, she revamps ancient ingredients with modern culinary ideas: turning rough tea into orchid milk tea, pickling bran into amber sauce meat, even making “tofu bird’s nest” from beans. But she has to deal with a mean restaurant owner, jealous fellow chefs, and wipe tears secretly while comforting a feverish Xiaoyu at midnight. Yet when Xiaoyu holds her osmanthus cake and shouts “Mom is the best,” and when nobles in the capital spend a fortune on her dishes, she realizes: parenting isn’t a chain—it’s the “sweetest buff” for her journey to become a top chef in the book.
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