Cheng Baozhu, the pampered daughter of her family who cannot do manual labor, unexpectedly travels to 1975 on her twentieth birthday and marries Xu Chuan, a man famous in the surrounding villages for being extremely lazy.
Faced with dark salted vegetables, drafty walls, and a rural dry latrine, she feels she might as well die. At that moment a Chef God System appears and tells her it can help her reach the peak of life and become the first generation of the rich by teaching cooking, ingredient recognition, cultivation of ingredients, and business management.
Xu Chuan, who has lived comfortably with the support of his parents and siblings and works only a few days a year, is also bound to the system. From then on he is pulled into a space every night to study cooking and learning. If he fails to cook, read, or study, the system punishes him with electric shocks, and he cannot leave until he finishes learning a dish.
People in the commune believe the lazy couple will either starve or live in poverty. Instead, their life steadily improves. In the first year they repay the team’s old debts. In the second year they have extra money. In the third year they open a shop in the city. By the fourth year they go to the capital, and the next time people see them, it is in the newspapers.
