The Second Wife’s Kitchen

A woman marries into a restaurant family and is handed the one kitchen nobody wants – the back room – and turns it into the reason the family cannot afford to be rid of her.

Su Yun, 34, marries the younger son of a restaurant family, having been a chef in her own right. On her first morning she is assigned the back room – a prep space with two burners, no extraction and no customers. Within eight months customers are queueing for the back room and the family’s head chef, her mother-in-law, has to decide what she is willing to protect.

What the package contains

• Complete story bible: logline, premise, setting and story engine
• World rules written as hard story constraints
• Character bible – 5 roles, each with a stated voice and a stated arc
• Relationship map
• Three-act structure with act-by-act episode ranges
• Turning points mapped to episode numbers
• Episode hook map for episodes 1-10: the closing beat of each episode
• Three written scene samples
• Production notes: cast, locations, key props, budget tier, shoot estimate
• Marketing copy you may reuse on your own platforms

Series facts

• 50 episodes at 60-90 seconds per episode
• Genre: Family & Urban Drama
• Vertical 9:16 format, mobile-first
• Production tier: Low
• 12-14 days for 50 episodes at 4-5 episodes per day

Production notes

• Cast: 10 speaking roles, 5 principal (3 female, 2 male), 5 supporting; food styling is the main craft cost
• Locations: 2 standing sets: restaurant (front + back kitchen + nine tables) and family flat above; no location work
• Key props: Two working kitchens, a folding table, printed menus (3 versions), knives, the grandmother’s single signature dish
• Budget tier: Low – single standing set with a working kitchen; food costs and styling replace set costs

Format note: this is a complete development package for a vertical short-drama series, not a shooting script with final dialogue. Episode dialogue is written in your own register.

Delivery and licence

• Instant download. One plain-text package file, no software required.
• Licensed for development, adaptation and production of the material described above.
• Adaptation, translation and sub-licensing require the extended licence supplied with the All-Access Master Library.
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