"Half Life, Half Life, Half Life Sweetness" takes the life trajectory of Zhao Shuying, a woman from northern Jiangsu, as the main line, and lays out a long scroll spanning nearly a hundred years. The story begins in Mangzhong in 1933. Zhao Shuying, who was born in a private school teacher's family, has been immersed in the fragrance of ink since childhood. However, due to the old custom of favoring boys over girls, she was forced to give up her pen and pick up a hoe. She grew up to be "iron-clad" while working in the fields and housework, but she always harbored a desire for knowledge in her heart. She met and stayed with Qiming in troubled times. After marriage, she and her children survived famine and hardship, and raised their six children into adults. As time goes by, the children have their own careers. The unexpected death of the second child once plunged the family into grief, but it also made the family know how to cherish it more. Zhao Shuying, who has entered the octogenarian age, guards the small courtyard with leafy old locust trees and welcomes the bustle of four generations living under one roof. With the warmth of his children and grandchildren around his knees, he looks back at the ups and downs of his half-life, and finally reaps the fragrance of the years, completing the blessing of "half-life sweetness" in the world.
