In the winter of 1970, a heavy snowfall sealed Baihua Village.
Lin Yuanzhou, an intellectual who was labeled a "bad element", was burned to the last breath in the cowshed. No one dared to save him - except Zhao Chunhe, the famous "unmarried old girl" in the village.
She dragged him back to the mud house with a tattered quilt, exchanged the silver bracelet left by her mother for life-saving medicine, and used this time to be soft-hearted and drag herself into a marriage that lasted nearly half a century.
He married her out of favor; she married him out of destiny.
Two people who were forced together by fate, one is at the head of a kang, the other is at the end of a kang, separated by a cold distance that can run a horse. There were no vows, no words of love, only the days of silent communication under the oil lamp, and the sky she held up for him with her rough hands.
After returning to the city, he reunited with his beautiful childhood sweetheart. The conflict between ideal and reality made him almost give up on that marriage, but he finally discovered a secret that he had never known in his life in the iron box that his wife had locked for decades.
It turned out that she didn't understand the poems he read, but she treasured every scrap for him; she couldn't learn to say the word "love", but she spent her whole life living the full meaning of the word.
This is a story about "growing together".
Bei Feng is illiterate and has never spoken of love in this life.
