On a thunderstorm night in the spring of 1982, Xiulan, the wife of Anhui beekeeper Xiao Guihai, gave birth to a baby girl in a simple beehive on the back mountain of a small mountain village called Chenjiadun in Fuliang County, Jiangxi Province on the border of Anhui and Jiangxi. Before she died, she named the baby girl Mi Xiang, hoping that the child's future life would be as sweet as honey. However, according to the ancestral teachings of his hometown in Anhui, babies whose parents died in foreign countries cannot be brought home. Xiao Guihai had to give Xiao Mixiang to midwife Xu Guizhi for adoption, thus starting the girl's ill-fated life. Xu Guizhi died unfortunately when he was six years old, and his adoptive father Chen Baoqing had to hand over Mi Xiang to a Shanghai educated youth couple to take back to Shanghai. But within a few good years, Shanghai's adoptive mother Ding Jiali unfortunately fell ill and passed away. When the news reaches Chen Jiadun, Mi Xiang, who was originally regarded as a nemesis, has become a strange legend among the villagers... Mi Xiang's experience is full of legends. A girl who was once called a nemesis eventually became a chairman of the board of directors with assets worth over 100 million. The story is touching, warm, full of positive energy and feelings of family and country. From Mi Xiang's growth experience, the work reflects from another aspect the earth-shaking changes that have taken place in Chenjiadun, a once backward and closed rural area under the Party's rural revitalization strategy. The work has beautiful writing, delicate depictions, vivid characters, and ups and downs in the plot. It has a strong rural style and flavor of the times on the border between Anhui and Jiangxi. It presents a picture of reform and opening up spanning 35 years from the beginning of reform and opening up in 1982 to the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 2017. It is a themed work to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Party and the fight against poverty.
