Father: After the divorce, he fled overseas and disappeared. After turning 25, his daughter began to understand him. She felt that the blood running through her veins connected her to him, and that she was facing the same unpredictable fate he had. But the rift between father and daughter could not be mended, because she carried the burden of her mother's lifelong hatred and pain. Their already tense relationship grew worse over those years. Yet beneath it all was a deep, irreparable love.
Mother: She carefully protected and excessively spoiled her daughter throughout her childhood. After the divorce, the devastating legal battle left her utterly heartbroken over her husband. The following year, she fell seriously ill. Afterward, she endured a difficult, prolonged menopause alone, unable to communicate with her daughter. When they were together, they argued; when they were apart, they missed each other. This relationship lasted two years, leaving them both in great pain. She had lovers from time to time, but never married again.
Daughter: As she grew up, she witnessed her parents' marriage fall apart and came to hate her father. While her mother was ill, she stayed by her side and witnessed life and death parting. Everyone turned against her. She shared her thoughts and feelings with a girl named Yan. Two years later, she married a man from the north, back in her hometown, fulfilling her mother's final wish. The wounds between mother and daughter grew ever deeper. She began to shut herself away, distancing herself from her husband and everyone else. She started writing letters to her mother. Slowly, the two began to communicate, briefly and haltingly. But the warmth they found would last forever.
