In the turbulent years of the Republic of China, a foreign female pharmacist who was responsible for her family's mission and an underground worker who was lurking under a false identity got married through a contract marriage. They guarded the ancestral medicine shop amidst the fireworks of firewood, rice, oil and salt in the market, forged ahead in the turbulent business world and the torrent of revolution, and used the wisdom and tenacity of traditional Chinese medicine to compose a long song of troubled times that combines the righteousness of the family and the country, the entanglement of love and hate, and personal struggle.
