In 1987, eighteen-year-old Li Chunxing is tricked by a no-good man. With half a bottle of aged sour mash tucked under her arm, she climbs out the window and runs away from home. Starting with a single bean, she is impersonated, sabotaged, and cut off from her bean supply, yet she relies on her craft to turn "Li's" from a tofu stall in the West Market into a bean-curd-stick workshop in the provincial capital. By her side is a quiet man who protects her without a word. His "I'll wait for you" has been kept hidden for three years. No golden finger, just genuine skill and genuine hearts.
