How Can I Protect You, My Miao Girl?

Ye Shanshan has finally graduated from college and returned home to wait for a job assignment. Full of anticipation, she wonders where she’ll be posted. Since she has only just graduated, the school’s job placements will take a while, so she buys a ticket from Xiamen and heads home to wait.

On the train, she meets Lin Yehan, a boy from a single-parent Miao family. She falls in love at first sight and, despite her parents’ objections, is willing to elope to marry him. She thinks she’s marrying a sweet, loving man. Having never known hardship, she doesn’t realize until after they marry that even making ends meet is no easy task. She also knows so little about Lin Yehan that she rushed into marrying him.

At first, their days are sweet. When he isn’t angry, he is endlessly patient with her. But whenever he gets upset, he refuses to speak to her, even though they live under the same roof. After three years of marriage and a long stretch of emotional abuse, she can’t take it anymore. In a fit of anger, she drinks paraquat and ends her short life, leaving behind the man she once loved deeply, their hungry baby, and her devoted father, Ye Yongchang.

Looking at her cold hands, he vows to take good care of his daughter’s orphaned child and raise his granddaughter to adulthood.