At twenty-nine, Zhou Xiao pressed the restart button on her life.
She broke up and quit her job, all in one day. She no longer wanted the boyfriend she'd been with for nine years, and she no longer wanted her respectable job in Luobin. With a cat in tow, she returned alone to her hometown of Tanxi.
She'd only meant to catch her breath before heading to Yunnan. Then her grandfather was injured in a fall and hospitalized, leaving her grandmother alone in the old family home in the countryside. Zhou Xiao decided to stay and keep her company for half a year.
Everything in the village had changed, and yet nothing had. What she hadn't expected was that her stepbrother, the person she'd barely exchanged a few words with, would be there too.
Liang Song, her stepfather's son, had given up his secure job at the water bureau and taken over a failed rabbit farm. He renamed it Utopia. It was home to a pack of puppies, each with a story of its own.
Her grandmother said,
