You Said There Were Stars in the Southern Border

Tong Huan spent three years teaching at Xiyun No. 7 Elementary School in a remote part of the southwest. Thanks to her cousin Tong Yanwei, an anti-drug police officer, she has the “good fortune” of meeting Su Rui, a sharp-tongued, highly intelligent professor from a prestigious university. Three years of teaching in the countryside have left her rough, bold, and unkempt. He has come all the way from England, accustomed to a comfortable, refined life, and suffers from severe obsessive-compulsive disorder and a strong aversion to dirt. Sparks fly and they clash at their very first meeting. They seem completely incompatible, as if fate itself had set them against each other. But they complement one another: he loves food, and she knows how to enjoy it; he struggles to read Chinese, while her exceptional memory could earn her a place on The Brain; he is calm and rational, while she is impulsive and passionate... Amid their bickering, they fight side by side, grappling with the harshness of the mountains and planting the seeds of civilization. As they unravel the clues in a child abduction case, the drug-trafficking forces behind their opponent begin to emerge. Then, shockingly, the identity of the person they trust most becomes a mystery. Facing death time and again and pressing on against the odds, they grow and change, eventually realizing that each is an indispensable part of the other.