The Smoke of the Times: The Years We Struggled Together

[Slice of Life] [Period] From a night-market stall to the lights of a thousand homes: the ups and downs of a veteran’s ten years.

No golden finger, no luck to rely on, just a pair of hands that can fix household appliances and a backbone that refuses to accept defeat.

In the days when pagers rang out across every street and alley, he met three women who lit up his life: the tenderness of sharing hardships, the clarity of a love beyond reach, and the fiery passion he could never let go.

This isn’t a harem wish-fulfillment story. It’s the true story of an ordinary man who spent ten years carving out a place for himself, inch by inch, in a concrete jungle.

See how an everyman seizes the glimmer of light between the cracks of his era and turns hard days into a life full of warmth.