Su Nuannuan lived only twenty-three years as a devoted foodie, spending her life savoring delicacies and cooking across China until she died on a bus to a fishing village. She transmigrated into the Great Yin Dynasty as Su Mengnuan, the legitimate daughter of Duke Ping’s residence, who three years ago married Duan Tingxuan, the young marquis of Anping Marquis residence. Their marriage was strained: Su Mengnuan was jealous, extravagant, and disliked by her in-laws, while Duan Tingxuan was handsome, favored by the emperor, and fond of beautiful women. Three months before her transmigration, the Duke Ping residence fell from grace due to a grain transport mistake, and the entire family was enslaved. Left without backing, Su Mengnuan was imprisoned by Duan Tingxuan in a dilapidated rear courtyard called Plum Moon Tower. She went on a hunger strike and attempted suicide, which is when Su Nuannuan arrived.Awakening in the body, Su Nuannuan was starving and immediately craved the braised pork on the table. Her maids Honglian and Xiangyun, loyal but despairing, had saved her. After eating a bowl of rice soaked in hot water with braised pork, she regained strength. She examined her face in the mirror, satisfied with her lips and teeth, and resolved to survive as a foodie. Sorting through Su Mengnuan’s memories, she understood the hostile environment: the marquis residence held her in contempt, and her husband had locked her away without mercy. She decided to rely on herself, seeing the rear courtyard as a seven-to-eight-acre plot that had once been an experimental field. She discovered chive sprouts, lettuce, spinach, and radish sprouts, which she could cultivate to avoid starvation.When the kitchen stopped sending breakfast, Su Nuannuan took decisive action. She marched to the kitchen, grabbed a cleaver, and demanded food from the head cook, Madam Xue. Ignoring Honglian’s protests about dignity, she ordered her maids to load rice, flour, meat, eggs, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, sugar, tea, and even live roosters and ducks onto a flatbed cart. Madam Xue was helpless, and the three servants hauled the supplies back to Plum Moon Tower. The commotion spread through the residence. Xu Ranyun, Duan Tingxuan’s equal wife from Chengming Earl’s residence, initially planned to restrict Su Mengnuan’s allowance but was told by Duan Tingxuan’s confidant that the master ordered full rations to continue. Xu Ranyun intended to only give two strings of coins, testing Duan Tingxuan’s indifference. Duan Tingxuan, upon learning of the kitchen scene, dismissed it as attention-seeking and instructed that as long as she did not create trouble in the rear courtyard, she could do whatever she wanted elsewhere, even if it meant taking from the kitchen or chicken coops. He believed she would eventually stop after losing face.Su Nuannuan, now armed with provisions and a plot of land, planned to turn the courtyard into a self-sufficient garden. She was unafraid of Xu Ranyun or other concubines, considering Su Mengnuan’s past failure to be due to arrogance rather than lack of ability. Her primary goal was survival: she would grow vegetables, raise poultry, and cook for herself. The conflict with Duan Tingxuan and the household’s schemes remained, but she focused on her new life as a foodie. The story follows her adaptation to ancient times, her scrappy resourcefulness, and her determination to eat well despite being a fallen noblewoman. Her ultimate aim, as a transmigrator, was to continue her passion for food and live freely in her own small kingdom. The narrative cuts off with her initial victory in the kitchen, leaving her future interactions with the marquis residence unresolved.
