In the fireworks alleys of Taiyuan City, a breakfast stall that bears the wrinkles of time connects the ups and downs of love and hate between two women and a man spanning twenty years.
Broken Beginnings and Secret Watching
Wen Cuixiang was once the "sweet lady" of the knife and scissors factory, but due to an accident, she fell into the maze of memory, forgetting her beloved Brother Hu and the stall they guarded together. Brother Hu, this rough guy who always said that "jasmine needs to be soaked three times before it is most fragrant", used the residual heat of the coal stove to warm up the broken time - he hid the suicide note she wrote when she fell ill, paid off her huge debt, and even carried her on a rainy night to seek medical treatment. The burn scar on her back formed a mirror image of fate with the old injury on her lower back. And Ermei, the girl who has been wearing a blue apron since she was seventeen, silently took over the stall that was on the verge of closure, patched the patches with rags from Wen Cuixiang's old apron, and poured her love for Brother Hu into every bowl of sweet soup. However, she quietly left before dawn, leaving only half a glass bead embedded with dried jasmine.
Love and redemption under the torrent of the times
When the wave of restructuring of state-owned enterprises shattered the "Sheep Big Bowl" sign, when Wen Cuixiang's sister forced her to marry for the benefit of the family, when the fragments of memory gradually came together at the bottom of the enamel jar, in the old tapes, and in the residual heat of the coal stove, the fate of the three people was at the cracks of the times. Struggling to grow in the gap: Brother Hu shuttles between the cobbler stall in the mining area and the hospital corridor, Wen Cuixiang catches the clues of love in the gap between forgetfulness and awakening, and Ermei turns from a cobbler to a nurse, bringing the warmth of sweet soup into the wider world. Glass bead wind chimes are swaying on the ruins, and the jasmine flowers in the soup bucket bear witness to the vow that "a bucket of soup warms the whole day", while Sister Wen Cuixiang hides in the
