After dying of cancer, Wang Xiuqin was reborn in 1985 and resolutely left the in-laws who despised her. Penniless, she met Jiang Lei, a kind fruit seller with a limp, in the county town, and the two supported each other. Starting out in a shabby mill, she drew on her memories and her skill at making tofu to produce batches that were white, tender, and silky smooth. In the spring breeze of reform and opening up, these two people whom fate had looked down on used their own hands to fill the small town with the fragrance of tofu, and built a happy life of their own.
