Li Shuping is a little woman trudging alone along the road of life. Kind and simple, she longs for an ordinary life and happiness, yet has nowhere to put her heart. When her husband took over the baton from her father, she thought she had finally been set free and found happiness. Instead, she was sent into another prison. Faced with conflicts between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law and friction between spouses, Li Shuping had no power to fight back, or perhaps no desire to. Her heart had been tightly bound by her father since childhood. Having grown used to being confined, she no longer knew how to resist. In her eyes, life was always a tangled mess, impossible to sort out or make sense of, so she could only stumble around, leaving herself battered and bruised. Sometimes she was more resilient than others and could endure greater hardships; sometimes she was more timid, and when happiness came, she didn't dare seize it. Like her name, Ping, she drifted from one day to the next like a duckweed on the water.
