The sweetness of Wuren Street is hidden in the cracks of the bluestone slabs, in the smoke from the sugar painting stalls, and in the honey pots of seventy households - but the fire 40 years ago burned down the sweet shops and extinguished the sweet lamps, leaving only an orphan girl named Akui guarding a withered "sweet tree".
She didn't know that Lu Zhaoran, the woodworking master at Guizhen Hall next door, had been guarding the tree for her for twenty years. He hid the broken branches of the sweet tree and carved them into hairpins, buried two blood seeds in the heart of the tree as tokens, and used a carpenter's plane to protect her from the poisonous blades of the evil cult three times - until one night, the dead tree suddenly sprouted, and seven residual souls floated in the golden and red veins: Sweet Granny, A Kui Niang, and even Chen Huaian, the magician who destroyed Tian...
It turns out that "protecting sweetness" is never the responsibility of one person. Xiao Tianbao's sugar clay cat lured the snake out of the hole, Cui Mei pretended to surrender to the enemy in exchange for the key, and seventy households held honey tea and sugar paintings to build the monument overnight - when the concentric tree bore "Seven Generations of Sweet Fruits", and when the sweet tree turned into the wind and merged into the sweet soup of every household, Akui finally understood the words of Sweet Granny: "Sweetness is not in the monument, not in the tree, but in Aunt Zhang's honey pot, Uncle Li's sugar paintings, Xiao Tianbao's sugar mud... In the heart of every person who protects sweetness."
And Lu Zhaoran stood under the tree holding the wood-engraved marriage certificate, and the "something else" that had not been spoken for forty years finally fell to the ground with the sweet fruit: "Akui, our sweetness will be buried in forty, eighty, and forever years - because where the heart is, the sweetness will always be there."
(Fireworks in the market are wrapped in a fantasy sweet fragrance, describing the forty-year bond between a pair of tree keepers, and also describing how seventy households used sugar mud, honey tea, and sugar paintings to carve "protecting sweetness" from one person's monument to spring all over the street.)
