A Love Affair Between Returning to Han Dynasty and Spanning Eighteen Years in Phnom Penh

Introduction to the work When she was sixteen, Shen Lan noticed the name surrounded by gold on the report card - Chen Xu. She thought that loving someone meant keeping her name close to him. A piece of paper torn from a geometry book that said "I like you" was the brightest light in her entire youth. But there is an invisible wall between them. He is Han and she is Hui. In the following ten years, they went through college entrance examinations, different places, parents' objections, betrothal gifts, religious education, and family recognition... They thought that after climbing these mountains, they would reach the plains. But there are still cold wars between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, family confrontations, broken cups at the New Year's Eve dinner, and the phrase "I'll never make it through life" on the plain. She shined brightly, lighting up him, lighting up the home, lighting up the two children. Until late one night, she deleted the short essay that she had written for a long time but that he had read but did not reply to. She made a decision - no longer wait, no longer ask, no longer lend all her light to others. That gold rim was never his. It's her own. This is a story about first love, obsession, nation and worldliness. It is also a woman's long journey from "I want to marry you" to "I want to be myself". The golden edge will dim, but the light will not go out.