Zheng Meimei has completed her eight-year prison sentence. On the day of her release, her daughter, Xiangfei, is detained by a shopowner for stealing a dog. While pleading for leniency, Meimei and her mother, Delan, accidentally damage the shop’s CCTV. A policeman, who happens to be Meimei’s son, Xiangfan, is dispatched to settle the dispute. Meimei takes out all her savings to compensate the shop owner. Back at home, Meimei realises the ei...

Yingxiong wants to make a police report. Meimei begs him to give her three days to find the watch. To avoid getting reprimanded by his father, he agrees. Eva suspects Xiangfei. Meimei questions him, and he denies the accusation unequivocably. Delan returns home after her mahjong session and learns about the missing watch. It turns out that she has given it to her singing teacher, Tony. She figured it was just a cheap imitation. Afraid to fa...

Dexian is incensed over the dead koi. Yingxiong’s mother voices her concern that Yingcai may have backstabbed him. Yingxiong doubts this. Yingcai hands an integrated resort project over to Yingxiong. Eager to change his father’s impression of him, Yingxiong signs the contract, thus falling into the trap Yingcai has set. The company loses $20 million, and he is forced to resign. Yingcai bribes a reporter to expose Yingxiong’s embarrassing ...

Yingxiong gives Meimei $20,000. He admits he is not interested in starting a business with her. The dramatic announcement was only a publicity stunt. Eva is fired from her job. Meimei asks her to be her assistant. Dexian praises Yingxiong for setting up Angels’ Foundation. Yingxiong agrees to let Meimei run the eatery. Xiangfan finds Angel’s missing dog. He learns of her wish to travel to France to learn to make desserts and wonders why s...

Meimei cooks a dish of minced pork with salted fish. She remembers eating the same dish during her secondary school days and decides to visit an old friend. She learns unexpectedly that the friend had passed away and her son, Jiguang, is selling fishcake. She encourages him to work at her eatery. Yingxiong grumbles about the eatery’s declining business, and Meimei proposes a $1 set meal. He rejects the idea, but Dexian is all for it and he h...

Story interviews Jiguang and realises he has a deep sense of filial piety towards his mother. She notices how quiet Shaolong is and tries to probe, and is rewarded with a cold shoulder from him. Yingxiong returns home, which to him is depressing, since no one is around. Meimei calls and tells him to go to the eatery at once. He soon figures that she wants the eatery’s staff to have a meal together, to boost their morale. Xiangfei befriends ...

Yingxiong is snubbed by David. Angel is under tremendous pressure because of the competition. She is on the verge of turning to drugs but Xiangfei stops her. He encourages her to deal with the stress on her own strength. Angel wins the competition. Xiangfan and Xiangfei celebrate with her. The next day, pictures of Yingxiong bribing David make the newspaper headlines. The reports also mention Angel has served sentence for drug abuse. Yingx...

Eva supports Yingxiong’s “money can realise every dream” premise. Jiguang and Shaolong disagree. When Shaolong is asked the reason for his prison sentence, he does not answer. Jiguang discovers Shaolong composes songs and can play the piano. He wants to learn from him how to woo a girl, and Shaolong agrees. Xiangfei calls on Yingxiong and asks him to carry out his promise to fulfil everyone’s dreams. Yingxiong allows Xiangfei to use his con...

Hurt by George’s comments, Angel rushes out of the eatery in tears. Everyone is indignant, but they praise George’s culinary skills. George explains to Meimei that every chef has to learn to take criticism; only then will they succeed. She relates this to Angel, who apologises to George. He refuses to accept her as his protege but does not mind her observing him as he works. Jiguang serenades Story with the new song Shaolong has taught him....

Everyone at the eatery is surprised to learn Tina is Yingxiong’s fiancee. However, she can’t seem to get along with anyone. Creating an awkward moment, Jiguang asks Yingxiong if he will marry Tina or Meimei. During the meal, Eva senses Meimei is uncomfortable. After everyone leaves, she asks Meimei if she has fallen for Yingxiong. Meimei denies this fervently, but Eva encourages her to compete fairly with Tina. Following this, Meimei feels ...

Learning Yingxiong has quarrelled with Tina about ex-convicts, Meimei mediates. Eva realises Meimei likes Yingxiong. Steve’s parents have stopped his allowance, and he has no choice but to ask Xiangfei to pay for their lunch. Delan reminds Xiangfei she may end up on the losing end if she continues dating Steve., and she begins to think things over. Angel creates a unique dessert, which becomes the signature dish of the eatery. When Story in...

Meimei is hospitalised. Infuriated, Yingxiong declares he will not let Tina off. Meimei forgives her and does not press charges, and Tina is grateful. Before she leaves, she tells Yingxiong he is actually in love with Meimei. Meimei has not told her son and daughter about her condition. Yingxiong visits her and takes care of her. Eva is pleased their relationship has deepened. Steve’s job search has so far been unsuccessful. Unaware Xiangfe...

Xiangfei thanks Yingxiong for helping her shake Steve off. She admires his maturity. She reveals her father was a jerk. Back then, pregnant out of wedlock, Meimei had hurt someone else to save him, but he left her for another woman. Meimei was jailed for assult, and Xiangfei has hated her since. Yingxiong sympathises with Meimei. Meimei objects to Yingxiong being Xiangfei’s boyfriend. She warns him not to court her daughter. Story bakes coo...

Meimei accepts Yingxiong’s love but asks him not to tell anyone about their romance. At home, Meimei finds out Xiangfei got drunk because she had failed to attract Yingxiong. Yingcai notices Yingxiong glowing with happiness and working diligently. He goes to the eatery to probe and hires an investigator to check into the background of everyone working there. He is surprised to learn Yingxiong is dating Meimei. Shaolong grew up at an orpha...

Xiangfei learns Meimei and Yingxiong are dating. Feeling betrayed, she runs away from home. Meimei gets upset. She refuses to continue her relationship with Yingxiong until she gets Xiangfei’s consent. Yingxiong meets with Xiangfei to try to talk her around. He asks if she is depriving her mother of happiness by being selfish. She does not answer. Jiguang tries to counsel Shaolong. When asked the situation with Story, he does not answer, an...

Bail is posted for Jiguang. News reports of the assault are sensationalised on the Internet. Information on the private lives of the eatery’s other employees is also exposed, including Shaolong’s past. Meimei wonders if Yingcai is behind this. Yingxiong insists Yingcai would never do anything to harm him. Little doe they realise it was, indeed, Yingcai who hired gangsters to beat Jason up. He then pointed an accusing finger at Jiguang. The ...

Dexian delivers Meimei an ultimatum: break up with Yingxiong, or lose funding from the Angels’ Foundation for the eatery. After careful consideration, she yields. Yingxiong quarrels with Dexian and refuses to break up with Meimei. The eatery sinks into a deep financial crisis. Emphasising that the business is the fruit of everyone’s painstaking efforts, Yingxiong is willing to stay with Meimei to keep it going. Eva’s son, Leo, wants to reun...

Meimei is overwhelmed by a sense of defeat. Having failed to steer everyone into a better life, she becomes depressed and refuses to get out of bed. Yingxiong comes up with a new idea: lunch box deliveries, so that their staff need not meet customers and encounter discrimination. Yingxiong is in dire need of funds to start the business, and acts on Yingcai’s suggestion that he sell his shares in his father’s company. He does not realise Yin...

Meimei learns Yingxiong and Yingcai are paternal half-brothers. Yingxiong comes to realise Yingcai has merely faked concern for him through the years. Upon joining the CID, Xiangfan is given the task of investigating Jiguang’s assault case. Xiangfan and Angel quarrel over her trip to France with George. Meimei mediates and advises Xiangfan that if he loves Angel, he should let her go. Meimei visits Dexian in the hospital but is chased away ...

Xiangfan chases Yingxiong to the hospital rooftop. Cornered, Yingxiong is at a loss and ashamed to have ruined his family’s reputation. Just then, the eatery staff arrive and try to coax him to turn himself in. Meimei vows to stand by him. At the police station, Yingxiong says he has no recollection of how he injured Yingcai. He himself lost consciousness during their brawl. Yingcai awakens, and accuses Yingxiong of attacking him. Knowing...