Jiang Mo has a bad stutter. Her words come out haltingly, and she's as soft-hearted as a freshly kneaded lump of dough.
She runs a bakery on the old street, spending every day among flour and cream. Her life is quiet and lonely. Her stutter has made her the butt of countless jokes. The market aunties say she'll never find a husband, and the punks who come to buy bread mock the way she talks for fun. She's used to keeping her head down and swallowing her grievances.
Then one night, two punks corner her in a dark alley. She's so frightened she can't get a word out.
Lu Ze happens to be passing by.
A veteran who runs the auto repair shop across the street, he has a buzz cut, a cold face, a hulking frame, and a hard, icy temper. Everyone on the street is afraid of him. He knocks the punks down in a few punches, doesn't ask her name, and says only, “Where do you live? I'll take you.”
From that day on, this rough-edged man barges into her life.
He says “I'll marry her” in front of everyone at the market. On stormy nights, he parks outside her window with his headlights on and keeps her company until morning. He'll even hang up on a ringing phone to listen patiently as she struggles to finish a sentence.
Everyone else thinks the timid, stuttering baker and the fierce, rough auto shop owner have nothing in common. But no one knows that this intimidating man saves all his tenderness and patience for one person.
Then Jiang Mo's true identity comes to light, the National Baking Competition looms, and the people who want to control her come knocking.
That's when they learn what it costs to provoke Lu Ze.
“From now on, I'll speak for you.”
