At seventy, Song Lan learned in the mourning hall that her husband, Ye Mingyuan, had tricked her into raising his illegitimate son. Opening her eyes again, she returned to 1982 before her marriage, tore up the marriage proposal, and started out setting up a stall at the market with her mother and an ancestral dumpling recipe. Ruffians smashing her stall, malicious rumors, counterfeit goods bearing her name, blocked raw materials, and a food poisoning frame-up—she and Wang Guiying joined hands, recruited left-behind women, built a workshop, created a brand, and ran a cooperative, breaking through difficulties with integrity and clever ideas. Ye Mingyuan and Jiang Yurong step by step lost their power, while Xu Tiankuo guarded her side by side. Song Lan turned a bowl of home-style dumplings into an industry exported far and wide across the city, leading her fellow villagers to get rich together, and living out a life that no longer depended on others.