A Long Healing Journey: For Graduate Students of Marriage

“Children Come Home” website founder Guo Xiaoqin receives an email from overseas. The mother writes that she adopted her child from China more than ten years ago. The girl had been an excellent student, but suddenly became rebellious in her teens, even giving up her studies to live with her boyfriend. At her wits’ end, the mother thinks that perhaps a trip back to her ancestral homeland might help, and that the girl might still have blood relatives there. She knows nothing about what her daughter went through before, but believes that coming home can itself be a kind of healing.

Guo Xiaoqin’s own child, Beibei, a seven-year-old with an intellectual disability, went missing more than a year ago. The foreign-company employee had once been exhausted by the demands of raising the child, to the point that she even lost her husband. But only after losing Beibei did she realize how important the child was to her, so she founded this charity website in her spare time.

While helping Lina, an orphan adopted overseas, search for her family, Guo Xiaoqin unexpectedly became a news sensation. Her ex-husband, recently released from a labor camp after serving time for drug use, also came looking for her. Using their missing son as an excuse, he demanded an exorbitant sum in compensation. After several rounds of discussion, Guo Xiaoqin realized he only wanted the money so he could start over. He had run into obstacles everywhere as he tried to return to society, and she set out to help him find a way back. Guo Xiaoqin’s experience moved Zhong Hong, a psychological counselor.

Zhong Hong’s newly opened counseling center had never before helped people recovering from drug addiction. She is also a single mother. As she works to help Guo Xiaoqin’s ex-husband, Wang Liqiang, the two develop unexpected feelings for each other. Just then, Zhong Hong’s daughter is diagnosed with leukemia...

A chain of love and the ups and downs of fate now begin to unfold.