A piece of candy under the old locust tree in Jiangcun is the first tender encounter between Li Mei and rice noodles; the life-consuming instructions in the delivery room are the end point of redemption she marked for him.
Childhood trauma and family breakdown caused Mi Nian, a former lawyer, to split into two souls: tenderness and madness. He is an elite in a powerful shopping mall and a ruthless planner, but he turns his desire for love into a "cage" that traps Li Mei - using violence to vent his pain and using confession to cover up his sins.
Li Mei is his only light in the darkness, struggling to persevere in the shadow of domestic violence. The unexpected child becomes his only motivation to treat his split personality. But the long-term torture finally caused her to burn out her life, leaving only the instruction "Don't let your children make the same mistakes again."
His father is released from prison, his mother returns, and a broken family is restored; the Mi family's property grows, but Mi Nian abandons his Bentley and rides a motorcycle to send his son to school. This is a story about trauma and redemption. When the madness fades, one realizes that true strength is tolerance, and true redemption is living a gentle life with the expectations of the one you love.
