This novel tells the love story of its protagonists, Xia Linshuang and Dong Xiangfei, in the 1930s. Xia Linshuang is a beautiful, gentle woman. Before she went to the city and "bumped into" Dong Xiangfei, her fellow villager Fu Guofeng had already fallen deeply in love with her, though she had no idea.
While Xia Linshuang loves Xiangfei, his cousin Bing Xue'er is also deeply in love with him! At the same time, as Fu Guofeng loves Linshuang, a woman named Shi Si, whom Guofeng once rescued, is deeply in love with him! What will become of them? Amid this tangled romance, they also uncover a secret that has been hidden for twenty years: Xia Linshuang turns out to be Xiangfei's real cousin, while Bing Xue'er is actually the daughter of Fu Guofeng's uncle, Zhang Zhennan, making her Guofeng's cousin! It all happens so suddenly! How will they face it all? What happened twenty years ago? What ties connect the Chen, Dong, and Zhang families from back then? The novel also weaves in the love stories of other characters, such as Xia Linwei and Jia Lingfeng, Chen Xuemei and Wang Bozhen, Yu Ling and Shao Feng, and Fu Xinying and Wei Lei. All the excitement awaits in This Grudge Endures, Yet Fate Gives Us No Time.
