Xiaodong was born in a beautiful coastal city, where the men are generous and hospitable; the women there are pure and beautiful.
Known as an "academic master", Xiaodong went through elementary and middle school smoothly with the full care of her family. She was admitted to a foreign language school in Beijing at a young age. She tried her best to dissuade her family from sending her north and went to Beijing alone.
It was this ordinary trip to the capital that brought Xiaodong and several young men from aristocratic families together...