A woman is desperate to afford her sick daughter's medicine. Hearing that the Marquis is offering a cook a high wage of five taels a month to feed his notoriously picky young nephew, she seizes the chance and enters the kitchen to prove her skill. Meanwhile, the Marquis, who is known for avoiding women, wakes from an exhausted collapse and orders his servant to find the same woman he briefly encountered, intrigued by her. The episode ends with him wondering where she could be as she attempts to win the crucial cooking challenge.