At the Foot of Gezao Mountain

Once the pampered daughter of a factory director, she plummets to the depths of misfortune amid a storm of reform. Her father pushes hard for reform at the pharmaceutical factory, introducing a pill production line and a contract-based management system, but faces fierce opposition from conservative forces. In the end, both her parents die. Bearing the weight of doubt and grief, Chen Wei boldly enters the male-dominated medicinal herbs industry, determined to prove that her father was right. Starting from nothing and overcoming trial after trial, she gradually builds a pharmaceutical group of her own. Using Chinese medicinal herbs and culture as its threads, the story focuses on two generations of people in the pharmaceutical trade, vividly portraying their perseverance, innovation, and struggle amid sweeping changes of the times. This work uses the personal to illuminate the larger picture, bringing to life the turbulent development of China's pharmaceutical industry over the 40 years of reform and opening up through the rises and falls of individuals and the industry's transformation. It is an epic of women's entrepreneurship, full of resilience, inheritance, and passion.