Puyi is a Hani girl. One year, she went with her mother to spend the Spring Festival at her aunt's home in Xiaoxi Village, where she met Li Ran, a young Yi man, and experienced the stirrings of first love.
Xiaoxi Village was far from home. Whenever the young girl felt her heart flutter, she couldn't help standing on the balcony and gazing at the terraced fields, hoping to catch sight of the one she loved.
Some people say marriage is about getting through life together, not romance. Puyi stubbornly believes that marriage exists because of romance. She sees only numbness on the faces of the women in her village. When they talk about marriage, they have no expectations at all, saying only that they have to carry on with their lives.
Time passed, and she never imagined that one day she, too, would become one of them.
