When she was eighteen years old, Ma Li walked into the military camp from the mountains of western Hunan, thinking that she would grow old together with her childhood sweetheart Shen Qingshan.
She didn't know that Shen Qingshan turned around and fell in love with the daughter of the political commissar in order to improve his position.
On the rainy night when she received the breakup letter, she danced all night in the practice room until her legs lost consciousness and the wooden floor was covered in blood.
From then on, she was no longer the innocent mountain girl. She wants to win the gold medal at the military parade, and she wants to silence everyone.
She did it.
But jealousy came faster than applause - anonymous letters told her that she had "questionable origins", her notebook was stolen, and rumors spread that she had relied on men to get to her position.
In the darkest moments when she was suspended from acting and isolated, there was one person who always stood behind her.
His name is Gu Yuanzheng, a son of a senior cadre and the youngest officer in the Political Department. Everyone was afraid of him, but he was as clumsy as a child in front of her. He didn't know how to chase a girl, so he would just put a pot of hot ginger tea outside her practice room every day for three years.
When she finally plucked up the courage to hold his hand, fate played a cruel joke - a car accident, and the doctor pronounced: You can never dance again.
Shen Qingshan came back to find her. He said, it doesn't matter, I will support you.
Gu Yuanzheng only did one thing: he stayed by her hospital bed for three days and three nights, and then said - "Even if you can't dance in your life, I will marry you."
Ma Li's choice silenced everyone.
This is not a story about Cinderella being saved by a prince. This is the story of a woman who was repeatedly shattered by fate and put herself back together piece by piece.
