北宋年间，来杭州督运粮草的皇子赵元卿，偶以蹴鞠认识了天香楼的美厨娘宋玉蝶，并对其倾心不已，此时玉蝶正打算跟学武归来的义兄李马成亲。而完颜部派将军完颜泽利跟踪赵元卿，伺机杀之，追杀过程中完颜泽利放火烧了天香楼。与此同时，李马因打伤差点玷污林姬儿的督粮官，被打入大牢。玉蝶营救李马不成，却看见化为灰烬的天香楼，便直奔京城要找赵元卿说个明白。赵元卿得知玉蝶的遭遇万分愧疚，承诺将李马救出。不久，秦贵妃意外发现玉蝶竟是自己十八年前失踪的女儿。此时，完颜泽利趁机向朝廷提出要与玉蝶“婚配”，李马为救身在完颜大营的玉蝶，自毁容貌，混入完颜大营，里应外合，最终将完颜泽利等人全部消灭。战事平息，李马要回杭州重开天香楼，殊不知，赵元卿早已开建天香楼。新店开张之际，玉蝶等人突然出现，自此，美厨娘宋玉蝶与李马修得百年好合。

Song Yu Die, a renowned chef in the Jiangnan area, was actually a lost Song Dynasty princess. She grew up among the commoners and learned her trade from her adoptive mother. Just when she was about to marry her childhood sweetheart, she got entangled in a warfare between a Song prince and a Jin general. To settle the conflicts between the two countries, she left her beloved to marry her country's enemy.