In the late years of Guangxu's reign, Wang Shude, a young man from the north, accidentally obtained Western sugar beet seeds. With the slim hope of "replacing hunger with sugar", he took the lead in trial planting on the bitter cold Songnen Plain. In the face of natural disasters, man-made disasters and the farming tradition that has been adhered to for generations, he led the villagers to find a new way of life with his tenacity and wisdom. When the first sweet fragrance rises from the frozen soil of the North, an epic agricultural and sideline industry story about survival, change and hope begins with difficulty.
