Xiang Rong Marriage Agency [The 1980s]

In 1984, Xiang Rong is assigned to the matchmaking office on Heping Street.

An older educated youth everyone looks down on, workers who only care about their secure jobs, middle-aged people laid off and divorced, nouveau riche who get carried away by money, chaotic private matchmaking agencies, and young people falling in love through screens...

A tiny matchmaking office connects an entire city, two generations of love and marriage stories, and twenty years of rise and decline in Northeast China's industrial sector.

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Xiang Rong is opinionated and takes things too seriously, so people don't like her. She's not suited to be a matchmaker.

Luo Cheng is sociable and ambitious. After leaving the army, he is assigned to a factory as a truck driver.

While courting Xiang Rong, Luo Cheng is proper, steady, and dependable.

After observing him, Xiang Rong decides: This guy seems all right.

After they marry, Luo Cheng keeps acting like a rascal and making Xiang Rong angry. He even gives her the nickname "Chili Skewer," because one skewer of chilies is enough to make you choke.

Xiang Rong: ...

Later...

From one of the first publicly run neighborhood matchmaking offices to founding her own, Xiang Rong Matchmaking, Xiang Rong lives through the industry's ups and downs, as well as her own romantic life, career, and midlife choices...

In the 1990s, Luo Cheng voluntarily gives up his secure job to go into business, weathering one twist after another...

The two work through their differences, support each other, and always have each other's backs...

Theme: Put people first and keep your feet on the ground