During the Tianqi period, there was a drought in Shaanxi. A young man named Wang Bao was dragged away from behind the stove by the government because his family could not afford twelve taels of salary. The knife in the cleansing room cut off his body and all possibilities between him and a girl named Xiuhe in Shaanxi.
Twenty years later, he was Wang Tiqian, the eunuch in charge of the ceremony. He found Xiuhe in the laundry list - her father had sold her for three taels of silver. He thought the reunion was compensation, but Xiuhe didn't want his pine nut candy. She only remembers the stolen malt candy in her childhood, and the afternoon in the cornfield when she licked the candy stains off each other's faces.
He uses his power to possess her, and she uses her madness to kill him. She died in the poisoned wine and the sugar he fed with his own hands, and he died on the way to her - toward the direction of the fire, thinking it was Shaanxi, but in fact it was Beijing.
Poisonous flowers grew on Xiuhe's grave. Wang Tigan's bones were covered with weeds.
Sugar is a fable about power, memory and loss. It uses the death of a woman and the decay of a piece of candy to answer the age-old question: what can be taken away from a person, and what can never be taken away
Concept: Power can castrate the human body, but it cannot eliminate the last sweetness of human nature - but that sweetness will eventually turn into poison.