"Married at an Age Without Understanding Love" is a coming-of-age novel focusing on the marital dilemma of contemporary urban youth. Through 100 slices of life, it shows a young couple's long journey from passion fading to re-understanding of love. The story uses the symbolic image of "medicine box" throughout, telling how the protagonists face the propositions in marriage that are more complex than love-responsibility, tolerance, self-growth and the impermanence of life in the day-to-day triviality.