In troubled times, the common people were humble. When the Ming and Qing Dynasties changed, the people at the bottom of the market were struggling amid war disasters, famine, and regime changes. Li Xiaodao, Zhao Mazi, Wang Sanpi and others laughed at themselves in the gap between life and death, relying on each other's warmth, resourcefulness and seemingly piecemeal mutual help to grow step by step in despair. The three volumes are intertwined with multiple threads: each experienced the breakup of their home and country, the separation of relatives, the struggle of the bottom, and the choice of interests. In the end, they united to save themselves in the darkest time of troubled times, finally understood the fragility and greatness of human nature, and found redemption and hope at the end of suffering.
