Home cooking for peerless men reflects the ordinary life of a group of people in the late 1970s. The drama focuses on the details of the lives of small people and ordinary people, attracting the attention of the audience in a warm and tortuous way, which makes people feel cordial. Zuo Xiaoqing plays the heroine Wen Hui in the film. She was born in a poor and self-reliant city in the early 1980s. Liu Hongchang, an older young man who works in the state-run second canteen, fell in love with Wen Hui, who gave up the opportunity to go to college because of his poor family. Although Liu Hongchang's mother and brother tried to stop him, Liu Hongchang married Wen Hui. Wen Hui's younger brother Wen Tao and younger sister Wen Yuan are also hostile to this brother-in-law. After Wen Hui got pregnant for the second time, a sudden disaster happened at home. Seventeen-year-old Wen Yuan left home with Liu Hongchang in a fit of pique and was spoiled by his street hooligan rhubarb cat. In order to avenge her sister, sixteen-year-old Wen Tao assassinated the rhubarb cat. Wen Hui was overstimulated and bled to death in the hospital. A series of family changes, so that Liu Hongchang can only deeply suppress his grief in his heart and shoulder this stormy home. ...

After the new year, Wenda was admitted to the university; But Yu Qiuhua was killed in an accident. In order to fulfill his promise at the last moment of Qiu Hua's life, Liu Hongchang guarded a hut and silently waited for the return of his loved ones. ...