民国时期，正在外地求学的吴皖忠突然接到家中电报，电报称其母病危望其速回。吴皖忠大惊失色，火速往家赶去。谁知回到家才知这是父亲骗自己回来的计策，因吴家世代酿酒，父亲希望他继承家中酿酒事业，还希望他能够娶王家姑娘，以此得到王家出名药酒“红粉佳人”的配方。因从小耳濡目染。吴皖忠也醉心酿酒业，让红粉佳人这种佳酿重现一直都是他的愿望，但父亲希望用联姻的方式获得配方的做法实在不道义，吴皖忠也不想自己的爱情被这样亵渎。吴皖忠当即离家出走，以此反抗父亲的做法。吴皖忠到了省城后踏踏实实地从小工开始做起，他希望从最底层慢慢摸索酿酒之法。经过吴皖忠锲而不舍的钻研和实验，最终取得成功。就在吴皖忠历经千辛万苦研制成功后，日军无意间得知这一消息，他们也打起红粉佳人配方的主意。在民族大义面前，吴皖忠正气凛然，宁死不屈。在日本人的威逼下，吴皖忠将红粉佳人变成毒酒

During the period of the Republic of China, Wu Wanzhong, who was studying abroad, suddenly received a telegram from home saying that his mother was critically ill and hoped that he would return soon. Wu Wanzhong was shocked and rushed home. Unexpectedly, when he got home, he found out that this was his father's trick to trick him back. Because the Wu family has been making wine for generations, his father hoped that he would inherit the family's wine making business, and also hoped that he would marry a girl from the Wang family, so that he could get the formula of the famous Wang family medicinal wine "Pretty in Pink". Because I have been fascinated by it since I was a child. Wu Wanzhong is also obsessed with the wine industry, and it has always been his wish to bring back such fine wine as Pink Lady, but it is really unethical for his father to obtain the formula through marriage, and Wu Wanzhong does not want his love to be desecrated like this. Wu Wanzhong immediately ran away from home to resist his father's approach. After Wu Wanzhong arrived in the provincial capital, he started down-to-earth as a small laborer. He hoped to slowly explore the method of brewing wine from the bottom. After Wu Wanzhong's persistent study and experimentation, he finally succeeded. Just after Wu Wanzhong was successfully developed after untold hardships, the Japanese army accidentally learned of the news, and they also came up with the idea of the formula of Pretty in Pink. In the face of national righteousness, Wu Wanzhong is upright and awe-inspiring, and would rather die than surrender. Under the coercion of the Japanese, Wu Wanzhong turned Pretty in Pink into poisoned wine