[Ensemble Cast + Household Intrigue + Gourmet Food + Rags to Riches]
Su Liyue, a young maid in the Duke’s manor, is a menial servant without a proper rank.
She has no desire to climb the social ladder; she only wants to leave the manor and live a simple life of her own.
Hearing that only first-rank maids can buy their freedom, she charges into the main kitchen and embarks on the arduous path to promotion.
She stews sweet soups, crafts delicate pastries, cooks grand dishes, buys a farmstead, leases a butcher shop, and guards the ancestral altar.
While the inner residence of the Duke’s manor is consumed by earth-shattering schemes, Liyue finally fights her way up from a menial servant to a first-rank maid.
Looking back, however, she discovers that the century-old Duke’s manor is gradually falling into decline.
Fortunately, Liyue has already bought her freedom. She opens her own restaurant and becomes her own boss, living a comfortable life all the same.
As for those fallen young lords, black-bellied princes, and rugged generals—it’s useless for them to eye her covetously.
Liyue is no longer the little maid of the Duke’s manor