In the summer of 2003, 18-year-old Lin Wanqiu was dragged back to the countryside from her senior high school class by her father to take her brother's place to work in the city. Holding half a crumpled English dictionary and 50 yuan stuffed in her mother's pocket, she squeezed onto the green train bound for a strange city. The assembly line of the electronics factory, the urban management in front of the street stall, the hard-earned money defrauded by her family... Life was like the strongest hot sauce in her hometown, which made her cry, but it forced out the toughness in her bones.
Chen Yang, who bumped into her life at a car repair stall, was an urban youth who was choked by gambling debts. Two people who were trapped in the mud by fate went from being wary of each other to staying together to keep warm. They used the money they saved from running a street stall to open an online store and sell hot sauce from their hometown. But the waves of life never stop: her partner takes away the money, his brother brings down the whole family through gambling, Chen Yang accidentally goes to jail to protect her...
From 2003 to 2025, from female assembly line workers to agricultural anchors, Lin Wanqiu and Chen Yang, as well as Su Mei, who took her daughter to her after the divorce, fell and choked in the tide of the times, but never let go of each other's hands. They use hot sauce to connect their hometown and city, use stitches to mend the holes in their lives, and turn the hardships of life into spicy food that gets better and better the more they chew it.
This is not a myth of counterattack, but a record of the survival of a group of ordinary people - they did not become legends of wealth, but they left their own pyrotechnic footprints in the mud.
