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On the eve of the Divine Chef Grand Competition, Lu Zhancai, a culinary genius, climbs the cliff of Wolong Mountain late at night. He is hunting for *Smiling‑Hand Mushroom*, the final missing ingredient for *Phoenix‑Marrow Soup*, a lost state‑banquet masterpiece. His fingertips are inches away from the fungus when the guardrail snaps. This is no accident — clean saw marks line the broken edge. Lu Zhancai plummets into the deep valley and crashes onto a local mongrel dog named Dahuang at the cliff bottom. By some bizarre twist, their souls swap bodies. When Lu Zhancai regains consciousness trapped inside the dog’s body, he cannot speak human words. Meanwhile, his original human body lies in critical condition in hospital. Doctors diagnose catastrophic brain injury and prepare to pull the ventilator, giving up on saving him. Yu Jingwen, landlady of Heavenly Fragrance Restaurant, bursts into the emergency room with her bank card. She mortgages her restaurant to cover 500,000‑yuan medical fees. “As long as there is one breath left, we will not give up.” Lying outside the door in the dog’s body, Lu Zhancai witnesses her weary yet unyielding figure. For the very first time, he witnesses