The Women of Today

This novel has been adapted into Today’s Heroines, a 24-episode urban ensemble drama starring Song Yi, Charmaine Sheh, and Li Chun. An old-established Sichuan restaurant, Chuanbai House, brings together three modern women with very different lives in the peaceful city of Chengdu. Each exquisite Sichuan dish tells a story of life's many flavors, linking countless beautiful moments together. As a veteran Beijinger from elsewhere, Lu Zhenzhen has spent her life grappling with the twin questions of love and career. But when forced to choose between the two, she resolutely returns home for love, to a place she has been away from for years... Meanwhile, her close friend Gu Manting, who married young but longs to escape the confines of marriage, is fretting over the precarious future of Chuanbai House. Lu Zhenzhen's sudden arrival is like a long-missed ray of sunshine, shining deep into the gloom that has long hung over the Gu family. But the two friends' peaceful lives are completely upended by the arrival of another woman... At the name Liang Qingran, even the elite of the investment world tremble. A force to be reckoned with, she is decisive and uncompromising at work, while her tender heart in private is hidden beneath layer upon layer of armor. As the crisis at Chuanbai House deepens, the three women, each with her own distinct personality, gradually become allies after an uneasy start. Amid life's countless trials, they become comrades; tested by love, family, and friendship, they become a united front. The story goes on. Love and good food are the only things we must never let down.