Willow Leaves, Heartbreak, and Flying Catkins

The story follows the love between Liu, Ye, Bo, and Xu. Feng Xuer has a terminal illness and chooses suicide to preserve her dignity as a woman. Her unintended act makes her a hero who risks her life to save others. Her death reveals a shocking mystery from more than twenty years ago. The story goes back to that time, when Liu Shu and his first love gave in to temptation. To escape their families and the law, they fled to the mountains, where they met a woman who had been forced into a marriage exchange. The two became pregnant, and she was married off to a fool. The fool went looking for his wife, wandered into the Southern Mountain, and met with misfortune. The two had no choice but to flee the remote mountains. Their two babies were switched by the river's waves, and because of this, he married an androgynous person to prove his devotion to love. Four people share in this tragic sorrow.