As an excellent rural humanistic realistic novel, "Cooking Smoke" tells the story of the heroine Yuying who experienced a famine in the middle of the last century and was forced to marry the second son of the Xie family, a rural bully. Yuying suffered a lot after her marriage, and her pregnancy made her even more miserable. In the endless struggle, Yuying chose to abort the child in order to get rid of the cruel situation. This incident cut off the old lady's hope of continuing her incest relationship and triggered a conflict between the two. Later, various mistakes occurred, which intensified the conflict between the two parties. Yuying stuck to her beliefs and eventually embarked on a criminal path - poisoning Xie's mother and son with poison, and was imprisoned. By chance, he meets an educated youth warden in prison, and the two fall in love at first sight. In order to pursue happiness, they fight the warden who is full of evil deeds in prison, but are later suppressed and tortured by the warden. During an accidental mass outing, Yuying found an opportunity to escape. On a snowy night, she escaped from prison with the educated youth Xiao Li, and finally achieved happiness.