In the 1990s, relationships between men and women were caught between tradition and modernity, amid the clash between social prejudice and increasingly open-minded attitudes. Zhao Zhijun refuses to marry his blind date, Li Cui’e, because she is not a virgin. Later, he meets and falls in love with Sun Xiahe, and the two women wage a battle over him. Sun Xiahe is an unemployed young woman from the city who once knew how to do nothing and couldn’t endure any hardship. After enduring countless trials to win the marriage she wanted...
Centered on the tangled relationships among three people, this novel portrays the struggle for survival of laid-off workers and unemployed young people.
